Freezer Paper-hard to find in Canada?
#11
Why not try a completely different method of applique, which doesn't call for freezer paper (sold only in quilt shops here). I've just posted a thread in the tutorials section
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...e-t188532.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...e-t188532.html
#13
It's not that I'm going waaaaaay out of my way to look for freezer paper, but where I live, it is no where to be found! When I'm out & about, I check for it in stores where I think I might find it. Gee whiz, is it really that hard to find? I thought I might give it a whirl since, (obviously because I don't currently own any!), I've never tried it.
I will be heading over to the USA next Thursday, so I will definitely scope out some stores for it, so if anyone has the "inside scoop" exactly where, do let me know!
Maureen
I will be heading over to the USA next Thursday, so I will definitely scope out some stores for it, so if anyone has the "inside scoop" exactly where, do let me know!
Maureen
#14
Ladies (and gents), freezer paper is not an oddity. Perhaps outside of the US it's called by another name. I can't image what your local butchershops use for wrapping meat if not some variety of OUR freezer paper.
#17
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<--- another of the Crazy Canucks, and a somewhat "neighbour" to you XSQuilter!!!
Anytime I've bought freezer paper, it's just been in the regular grocery stores, shelved along with the waxed paper, foil etc. Just keep looking .... and my favourite all time solution ... ASK! Sometimes they put some things in the most illogical locations.
I've used it, but not been "excited" over it! I iron it on ... but it just doesn't stay put for long, so I've been wondering if our freezer paper doesn't have as much wax on it as what the USA Quilters get?
Anytime I've bought freezer paper, it's just been in the regular grocery stores, shelved along with the waxed paper, foil etc. Just keep looking .... and my favourite all time solution ... ASK! Sometimes they put some things in the most illogical locations.
I've used it, but not been "excited" over it! I iron it on ... but it just doesn't stay put for long, so I've been wondering if our freezer paper doesn't have as much wax on it as what the USA Quilters get?
#18
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Southeast Wisconsin
Posts: 1,070
Love using freezer paper. I don't applique but use it to trace doll clothes patterns then just iron to the fabric. Don't have to deal with pins on small pieces.
Beginning to use it in quilting. Trace the shape, cut out, and iron it on to the fabric and sew around.
Beginning to use it in quilting. Trace the shape, cut out, and iron it on to the fabric and sew around.
#19
I remember the good old days when "wax paper" was WAX paper.
Why did they have to go and ruin it?
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