Painters tape and quilting techniques ???????
09-06-2012, 07:05 PM
#52
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I also use the painters tape for quilting lines. Also to clean up the quilt from threads and lint (turned inside out) I've used it on the back of rulers to keep from slipping Put a small piece to remind me where I stopped stitching if I have to do something else Use it on my sewing machine bed for a 'fence' for my 1/4 seam
09-06-2012, 08:03 PM
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09-06-2012, 09:27 PM
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First of all - everyone in my house knows they can find the blue painters tape around my sewing areas - I use it on my longarm for marking on the plastic over my pantographs - this way I know where my pattern starts and stops on my quilt tops and I can write on it to let me know my starting and stopping points.
09-07-2012, 04:33 AM
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I was a machanical engineering draftsmanas a young first adult job, making very good money-1970's. I used drafting tape, low gum tape..and templates all day. Why i did not think out of the box that a sharp pizza cutter, templates...clear triangles of great variety.including 24 inch in height and low tac (just like blue painter tape) could have been used on my first quilt fall 1980! I could be rich! We all marked our templates for various reasons..just like uses here! I love painter tape on fabric...hint..thete are multiple stickynesses. Check the little dots on the edge of the plastic wrap packaging. I use middle range sticky..low tac but not weekest or strongest. :0)
09-07-2012, 07:41 AM
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I made a list of all the hints so far.
PAINTER’S TAPE
*Roll it around your hand to make a circle, gummy side out, then stick it on sewing table as a thread catcher.
*Use a roll of tape around your hand to pick up small threads on fabric after seam ripper.
*Use the sticky side to clean threads & lint from quilt after quilting.
*Mark rulers for cutting.
*Lengthen or widen stabilizer.
*tape down topper stabilizer when embroidering.
*Tape on hoop to make it tighter.
*Mark straight lines for quilting eg crosshatching or chenille quilts.
*Mark seam width on machine all the way to the front of the machine– won’t leave sticky gum on machine.
*tape backing to table or floor when making quilt sandwich.
*Use on back of ruler to prevent it from sliding.
*Use tiny pieces on the back of a block to put it on a wall to photograph OR as a makeshift display wall.
*Mark cut pieces eg length of grain on cut triangles.
*Tack paper with quilting or paper piecing design to table under golden threads paper taped over it for tracing.
*Stabilize bias edges of pieces – place slightly farther than ¼” from the seam you’ll sew.
*Use tiny strips to tape thread ends of bobbins.
*Tape down Magic Slider for free motion quilting.
*Mark smaller squaring up measurements on a larger square ruler.
*Mark a ruler for fussy cuts.
*Mark design wall with outline of your quilt.
*For sewing HSTs: mark needle lines all the way to the front of the machine.
*Cut small triangles to mark cutting slots on June Tailor Shape Cut Ruler.
*Mark lines on ironing board to square up blocks.
*Tape Angler 2 to machine.
*Write #s, ABCs on pieces of tape and stick them to blocks to mark rows and block placement in your quilt.
*Mark cutting board to check for squaring up with 2 pieces cut to the size of the unfinished block, eg for 10” block, 2 10-1/2” pieces, 10-1/2” apart.
*Tape directions to sewing table.
*The ‘off’ brands of tape don’t stick as well as the Scotch brand.
*Stick a piece o your arm to remind yourself the iron is on.
*Mark where you stopped stitching or machine quilting.
*Longarmers – when you’re ready to start a new row of FMQ, move the machine forward until it hits and tells you it can’t go beyond that point. Mark that place with tape.
*Longarmers – Mark the plastic over the pantograph where the starting and stopping points are.
PAINTER’S TAPE
*Roll it around your hand to make a circle, gummy side out, then stick it on sewing table as a thread catcher.
*Use a roll of tape around your hand to pick up small threads on fabric after seam ripper.
*Use the sticky side to clean threads & lint from quilt after quilting.
*Mark rulers for cutting.
*Lengthen or widen stabilizer.
*tape down topper stabilizer when embroidering.
*Tape on hoop to make it tighter.
*Mark straight lines for quilting eg crosshatching or chenille quilts.
*Mark seam width on machine all the way to the front of the machine– won’t leave sticky gum on machine.
*tape backing to table or floor when making quilt sandwich.
*Use on back of ruler to prevent it from sliding.
*Use tiny pieces on the back of a block to put it on a wall to photograph OR as a makeshift display wall.
*Mark cut pieces eg length of grain on cut triangles.
*Tack paper with quilting or paper piecing design to table under golden threads paper taped over it for tracing.
*Stabilize bias edges of pieces – place slightly farther than ¼” from the seam you’ll sew.
*Use tiny strips to tape thread ends of bobbins.
*Tape down Magic Slider for free motion quilting.
*Mark smaller squaring up measurements on a larger square ruler.
*Mark a ruler for fussy cuts.
*Mark design wall with outline of your quilt.
*For sewing HSTs: mark needle lines all the way to the front of the machine.
*Cut small triangles to mark cutting slots on June Tailor Shape Cut Ruler.
*Mark lines on ironing board to square up blocks.
*Tape Angler 2 to machine.
*Write #s, ABCs on pieces of tape and stick them to blocks to mark rows and block placement in your quilt.
*Mark cutting board to check for squaring up with 2 pieces cut to the size of the unfinished block, eg for 10” block, 2 10-1/2” pieces, 10-1/2” apart.
*Tape directions to sewing table.
*The ‘off’ brands of tape don’t stick as well as the Scotch brand.
*Stick a piece o your arm to remind yourself the iron is on.
*Mark where you stopped stitching or machine quilting.
*Longarmers – when you’re ready to start a new row of FMQ, move the machine forward until it hits and tells you it can’t go beyond that point. Mark that place with tape.
*Longarmers – Mark the plastic over the pantograph where the starting and stopping points are.
09-07-2012, 09:50 AM
#58
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Location: Beatrice, NE.
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try using ICE Cubes first to freeze it & scape with finger nail. Works for gum.
I just found out the hard way how much better the blue tape is than masking tape. I have a project which I marked the directional areas with masking tape. Weeellllll, it has been sitting for, ummmmm, let's say over a year and I just decided to finish it. The areas with the masking tape - when I could finally remove it - are gummy and now I have to figure out how to get the gummy stuff off my fabric. Really bad move on my part. Won't do that again!
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