Freezer Paper and Pressing Cloth
 

1. Freezer Paper - I am working on a pattern that says to use freezer paper for drawing an applique image, iron to fabric, then cut out. I've not used freezer paper before. Where do I get it? Grocery store?

2. Pressing Cloth. I will need to iron other cut squares onto fusible interfacing. Pattern direction said to use a pressing paper to do this - to protect the iron from goo. It recommends Clover Quick Bias Design Sheets. Do I need to purchase these, or will something else work?

You should be able to buy freezer paper in your grocery store. It would be in the same area as waxed paper, foil wrap, etc. LQS' also sell it, usually at a much higher price for the same thing.

I use baking parchment in place of a press cloth, so this might work to protect your iron from the goo! :)

Walmart here has freezer paper in the grocery dept., in the craft department, and in the housewares dept. I think it's in more stores in the South so you shouldn't have any problem finding it.

Freezer paper will be found where ever wax paper is sold. A roll of freezer paper will last a long time. Any pressing cloth will work, I got one from JoAnn's. It's a Teflon sheet. You put your pattern under it and can build layered applique. Once it cools, you peel it off the pressing sheet, place it where you want and press it down again.

You're correct Tartan. Two different applique methods in different places on same project. Thanks to everyone about a pressing Teflon sheet. I'll look for freezer paper at Wal-Mart.

I have a Teflon sheet that is an oven liner. Is that what you use?

The one for us quilters/sewers is much thinner so we can see the design we are working on. It protects both your ironing board and your iron if you use 2 layers.

I buy both freezer paper and parchment paper at Walmart. I use parchment paper in place of an applique pressing sheet for fusible; works fine.

Same here. Both products will be located very close to each other, and parchment is an inexpensive and easily found replacement for a Teflon applique sheet.

Glad I am not the only one using parchment ... besides I have it all the time for baking!

Yep! I have one roll in my kitchen, one roll in my sewing room, and 2 in the closet as backups! :D

Me too! .... a parchment stash! :D:D

Parchment paper from the grocery store for baking is the greatest for a pressing sheet I have found and you can throw it away when you use it a lot, one piece goes a long way usually. I don't care for all of my other pressing sheets I have bought for this.

....to protect the iron from goo.......for pressing cloth in insructions. This would be something you lay on top of fabric pieces that are ready to be fused to another piece of fab or to make a larger pieced of something to later be fused..and then lay down pressing cloth then iron on top of this. I use an old kitchen cloth towel, but that suggestion of parchment paper also sounds good. Some fusible appliqué also say "damp" pressing cloth for final fusing, which is why I use cloth kitchen towel but any piece of cotton muslin would do..

I agree, this sounds like a great idea!