wildyard

I just wanted to share an accidental discovery I made while working on a t-shirt quilt.
I had a few shirt fronts with heavy vinyl designs and my machine just would not move over the vinyl and kept sticking to it. So I got some waxed paper to lay over the design and sewed over the paper so my foot would slide over the paper. Well that was the perfect solution for that problem but what I also discovered was that it is also the perfect solution for sewing stretchy fabric in general.
I found that I could quilt the design using the wax paper and my foot glided smoothly over the fabric, never needing to be lifted because of stretching. The twists and turns following the design were so easy as the wax paper allowed to foot to glide almost as if it were floating over the design.
I do not use fusible on my t-shirt quilts, just a piece of muslin or cotton under the knit.
To remove the wax paper, I simply used a bamboo skewer, went over the seam line with the point and it tore right off. Any little bits that remained came right off with the skewer tip.
You can be sure that from now on, all my t-shirt sewing will be done over waxed paper, whether there is vinyl or not. I was able to quilt the remainder of the squares in about 1/3 the time as the first ones.