Originally Posted by rb.
Originally Posted by butterflywing
great idea! i'll try that! never thought of a hammer.
how does freezer paper work? don't you still have to pull off the paper from both sides of the seams? if you do, what difference does it make? the paper comes off
pretty well now if you pull on the block in all directions first. it takes longer because it's one extra step.
Great job! With the freezer paper method (I wouldn't do any other), you draw or copy your pattern onto paper. Then, you put a bunch of freezer paper pieces, stacked, under the pattern, fixed with a staple or two, or a dab with a hot iron to hold them together. Then, you sew the drawn lines on the paper pattern, without thread. This gives you your piece lines in a perforated line. After doing the whole pattern, take a freezer paper pattern, and iron your piece #1 to it's spot on the freezer paper. Carefully fold back to the perforated line (sewing line shared with piece #2). Put #2 on #1, sew right against the perforated line, through the fabrics, but NOT through the folded edge of the paper. Voila, perfect seam, no paper to pick. Repeat.
There are much clearer instructions online.
http://www.twiddletails.com/store/in...age=page&id=21
This shows the method if you are only doing a single block. ( you can use the same FP about three or four times ) HOWEVER, the stacking and sewing without thread thing makes short work of the same pattern and once again, reduces the time requirement.
Try it, then let us know how you like the method.. I won't do it any other way now.
Don't forget... If you stack and sew, SHINY SIDE DOWN when you do this.