copycat

The wrap is sticky on one side so it can stay put on your quilt after you have drawn the design. Next you quilt on your drawn lines and then tear away the wrap. Have any of you tried this method?

ckcowl

I did once years ago, for me it was a huge mistake. I used a sharpie to draw the design. As the needle poked through the lines it ( transferred the sharpie permanent ink) to my quilt top. The background was white. Ruined the quilt with black ink that did not wash out. I never tried it again. I have read people do use it successfully. Guess I just did it wrong.

QuiltnNan

i tried it years ago. i used a black marker to draw my design. the needle piercing the plastic pushed marker dust through the design onto my quilt... some of it didn't come out.

Cactus Stitchin

Yes! I love doing it this way. Worked great for me. Depending upon the quilting removing it later can be a bother but was so much easier overall. I'm not terribly experienced with quilting so it helped a lot.

Tartan

I also made the mistake of using a sharpie and got colour transfer to my quilt. It would work well if you could use a different pen, maybe the Frixion pens would work?

JustAbitCrazy

I found something similar that I really like. It's called Miracle Film and I believe it's made by Marathon. It's a transparent stabilizer that has perforations allover. I mark my design on the Miracle Film and affix it to the quilt top with a light spray of temporary adhesive. Once quilted through, the film tears away easily because of all the perforations. It is made to come off with heat, but I never need to bother with that because it tears away so easily.
Since you can see through it, placement is a snap.
(The way you remove it with heat is to hover a hot iron over it. The film shrinks into little balls that can be brushed away.)
I do use a thin permanent sharpie for the marks on the film, but I let it dry thoroughly overnight before quilting it, and have had no black transfer onto the quilt. A couple of times I cheated and dried it with a hairdryer on low (and not held close---remember it melts), and that worked well, too.

Quiltlove

I use this method a lot. It's also great for testing your designs before sewing. I will say, however, if I can come up with a design that has templates, I prefer to use the pounce or Sue Pellen's iron off powder. It depends on how you choose to transfer your designs to your quilt. Free motion quilting, of course will require no lines to follow. Each project you attempt has unique properties that must be considered when choosing the design transfer method.

Quiltlove

I probably should have added that I use those pilot erasable pens to draw on the press n seal. Another product I have used is for machine embroidery. It is clear and washes away, but you can draw on it the same. I think it is called vilene.

Cactus Stitchin

When I did mine, I used a water soluble pen and did have minor leakage onto the quilt below. I was able to remove it easily with a q-tip dipped in water so no harm done.

Sewnoma

I tried it in a "quilt marking" class and didn't like it compared to thin tissue paper with spray adhesive. I was doing a FMQ design that involved a bit of tracing lines to get back to certain points and those double-stitched lines were a nightmare to pluck all of that plastic out of. I didn't even finish since it was just a class sampler. The tissue paper didn't stick quite as well but then it all just rubbed completely off afterwards with almost no effort.

There was a self-adhesive stabilizer she had us try, too, and that was the worst. Gummed my needle up like nobody's business.