Quilters vinyl ??
 

Recently purchased a quilting book that mentioned using QUILTERS VINYL and dry erase markers' to practice free motion quilting. Anybody know what it is? I found some "iron" on vinyl in a quilt shop in Lake Chelan WA a few days ago but it was more for using on placemats and tote bags. (very nice LQS if you are traveling thru!!) Was rather expensive to be drawing on even tho you can erase and start again and again... Would regular old table top vinyl do the same thing? I have some left over from an outdoor table I made a cover for... Was in JA's yesterday. They said they USED to carry the iron on but no longer. Did not know what I was talking about... Hot iron and vinyl just seem WRONG to me... lol ! Help!! Thanks in advance!!

Our Walmart has the iron on vinyl. I've not used it or even really priced it. It is just always there in the back with the iron on interfacing. I always assumed, like you said, that people iron it on placemats or such.

I don't know anything about it, but I googled a link to the product. Here it is: http://www.ctpub.com/showproducts.cfm?WPCID=1118

kinda pricey, would just use a small dry board instead.

Two suggestions:
1. Transparency plastic used in the old days with overhead projector (I got some from work we weren't ever going touse again!
2. Joannes has clear vinyl by the yard in different thicknessess (at least mine does) so you can purchase just a small piece. This was by the oil cloth in the home dec section of the store. This was not expensive at all. This is NOT iron on vinyl.

Anything with the word quilter attached is much more expensive than the same thing without .

Just the clear plastic page covers works well too if you want something small to practice on.

Paper and pencil work too. Mean you are only going to do a lot of doodling, right?

Just buy a clear vinyl shower curtain from walmart. Frame it with masking tape so you can clearly see the edge and don't accidentally mark your quilt top. I use the wet erase markers instead of the dry erase. I tried it out and I don't do it too much because I like to sit on the sofa and draw while DH watches TV. So, like Marti, I tend to use a lot of paper and pencil. I buy cheap news print, draw my block on it and then use tracing paper to try out quilting designs in the block.

PS edited to add, you place the clear vinyl over your completed quilt top and draw to audition quilt designs.

I got a piece of plexiglass for a few dollars at Lowes. You can set it on top of your quilt top and draw with dry erase markers to try it out before you start sewing. It really helped a friend of mine decide what to do with her quilt.

I've seen that, they lay a piece of vinyl over the quilt top & audition quilting designs they draw with markers. You don't need a big piece of vinyl, half yard or so. Since the markers are wipe off, you can reuse the vinyl over & over.
Keep in mind you don't actually quilt on the vinyl, you just lay it over your quilt top to get a sense of what the quilting design will look like. You still have to make the quilt top somehow.
Good Luck,

Cathy S/Willowwind