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Sweet.............thanks..............calla
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Thanks for sharing! Great idea.
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Great tip, thanks for sharing.
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What a great idea. I'm going to try that.
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That's great! Thanks for sharing.
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That is a great Idea!
I'm a cheap skate and have been know to use old phone books for piecing :shock: |
Very good tip!
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I used to use regular 20wt printer paper to copy my paper piecing designs until a fellow quild member told me about children's Doodle Pads. You can get them in places like Michael's Craft stores and they are about $2.99 a pad of 60 sheets. They are 9" x 12", so you need to cut them down to 8 1/2" x 11". I do a whole pad at the same time and then I have them ready when I need them. Putting water on the seam might make the ink from the printer run, so be careful if you do that.
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great idea, thanks!!
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Thanks for this timely tip for me! I'm trying it today :)
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good tip. Thanks
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Originally Posted by Bobbinchick
:-D :-D :-D I have a great tip that I thought of a couple days ago. If you use regular printer paper for foundation piecing and find it a little harder to take it off the block when you are done. Try this.... Get a small bowl or a cup and put a little water in it. Then get a q-tip and dip it in the water and dap some water on the stitches on the paper and it will soften it so it makes it much easir to carefully take off that paper. And it doesn't pull on the threads. This is a great way to test color to see if it runs. Just sew two scraps together as if making a block a light and a dark color and then do the q-tip trick and if the color runs, you will know it right away. Then you will know not to use the running color in your quilt. This trick is great for those little tiny pieces of paper you have to take off. Have a great day, Huggies, Fay
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I fold the paper both ways on the sew lines before I sew -- the paper has already been weakened and tears off easily. Also if you gently pull on the diagonal. it rips open the paper
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Will remember this tip. Thank you
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Thanks for the great tips, I will certainly use them in color testing my fabric for any project, and the machine applique tip using copy paper.
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I will have to try that! Thanks.
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Sounds good to me.
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I got tired of tearing all that paper off so I started folding on the line and cutting previous fabric 1/4" away from line. That way no stitches are through the paper and no tearing is involved. Just be careful about pulling bias edges.
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Great tip! Thanks for saving me alot of time and bad words :-)
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Your new tip was a Q tip. I couldn't resist. Good tip.
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Great tip Thanks for sharing
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Great tip - thanks for sharing.
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DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The school where I used to work was throwing some reams of newsprint type paper. I took it home and ran it through my printer and it works great for paper piecing.
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Thanks for the great tip!!
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great tip......thanks....:-)
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thanks...will try this next time!!!
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Thank you
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Good thinking. I'll try it. What I usually do is really crease the paper on every stitch line before I sew. I'll see how this compairs.
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Have tried PP and definitely taking off that #@@@$ paper is crazy. Maybe I will try again. Thanks for the great tip.
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Thanks for the tip. I like paper piecing.
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that makes so much sense thanks
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take a sample of material ,put in microwave bowl with a cup of water bring to boil , if it runs, wash material before cutting . I cut some squares out then thought this may run so I did this ,it faded , so id did this three times no more fading ,as I had no more material in the color needed .
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Yeah I have folded the paper back on itself on the stitch line and then fold it forward and then back again and I could not always get the paper off. So the trick I gave worked better nad not so much cussing. Well I'm on the last technique on my Glacier Star quilt and so I'll be working on that for awhile and I've got the star sewn together and I was so happy it did not volcano on me. In fact, it came together much better than I thought it would. Have a great day, Huggies, Fay
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Good tip. Thank you. I use the printing paper when I pp. I will use this tip. :thumbup: :)
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thanks for the tip
Originally Posted by Bobbinchick
:-D :-D :-D I have a great tip that I thought of a couple days ago. If you use regular printer paper for foundation piecing and find it a little harder to take it off the block when you are done. Try this.... Get a small bowl or a cup and put a little water in it. Then get a q-tip and dip it in the water and dap some water on the stitches on the paper and it will soften it so it makes it much easir to carefully take off that paper. And it doesn't pull on the threads. This is a great way to test color to see if it runs. Just sew two scraps together as if making a block a light and a dark color and then do the q-tip trick and if the color runs, you will know it right away. Then you will know not to use the running color in your quilt. This trick is great for those little tiny pieces of paper you have to take off. Have a great day, Huggies, Fay
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Great tip.
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Also -- for those tiny bits of paper in the corners -- use pointed tip tweezers. I use one from a biology lab with a curved tip
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Thanks for the great tip!
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Originally Posted by mim
Also -- for those tiny bits of paper in the corners -- use pointed tip tweezers. I use one from a biology lab with a curved tip
Mim :-D :-D :-D I have a pair of those, but they disappeared and haven't seen it for God knows when. I sure miss them as I used to use then when I cut jump stitches on embroidery. I don't do machine embroidery much any more because it bothers my eyes. I have another pair that are straight and these better not go missing. If I buy another pair,,, they will reappear I'm sure, isn't that usually the case??? Huggies, Fay |
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