Freezer Paper Applique

hi my name is Cindy rang and I'm the owner of the fabric patch in Ephrata Washington our website is www.pevs.com I can dapple here you think you might but you don't want to deal with the whole needle turn process and getting all of your fabric turned under it's just a way to make sure that everything is turned under before you start stitching super easy to do and the product that you use is you just use regular freezer paper so this is just reynolds brand you can find it in any grocery store department store they do make a quilt store quality freezer paper the difference is that if you look at regular freezer paper it has paper on one side and it has this wax coating on the other side regular Reynolds freezer paper has a thin layer of Wax the cutwright brand that you can buy in quilt stores and we have on online is a little bit thicker the amount of wax is about three times the amount it's also cut into eight and a half by eleven size sheet so you can run it right through your copy machine if you don't want to trace all of your patterns but then what happens is if you've cut out a leaf or something you can reuse that leaf five six even seven times because of the amount of wax that's on here whereas the reynolds brand it's going to stick really well the first time it's going to stick pretty well the second time and probably not well at all on the third time so it just sort of depends on how many times you're going to be reusing your templates and what you're using it for all right so once you have your freezer paper what you're going to do is you're going to trace your pattern so if you look here I have two leaves that I've drawn on to my freezer paper I've drawn them on to the paper side of my freezer paper and then I'm going to go ahead and cut it out so again I just use the same scissors that I use for everything I love my little Havel's serrated edge scissors they have that nice little grippy quality to them and so I can cut those out and then I'm going to put it on the wrong side of my fabric if you have a whole bunch of these to cut you can trace each one individually or the other thing that you can do is you can go ahead and cut one and then take multiple layers however many you want however mini you feel like you can cut through layer all of your freezer paper put your pattern on the top and then put a couple staples one or two staples through there and then you can go ahead and cut through and you're cutting mold to pull templates at a time if that wouldn't be a little bit easier so when you do this you're going to go ahead and give yourself enough space so that you can cut a quarter of an inch all the way around so I'm actually going to go to this bigger one which might be a little bit easier for you to see so we've we've taken this and we have the the wax paper side down and with the hot iron we're just going to go ahead and iron that and so what's basically happened is that wax has melted into the fabric which seems a little creepy that you're doing that but when you pull that off it doesn't leave any kind of a residue or anything it totally doesn't matter you're all good so then you're going to go ahead and cut around the outside edge here and you're going to give yourself about a quarter of an inch you don't have to be super fussy about it quarter of an inch half an inch eighth of an inch somewhere in there you just want to make sure that you give yourself enough room at the end I purposely picked a leaf because I want to show you how to do a point what you do at the point is you want to make sure you have enough if you don't have enough you'll have that weird little fuzzy point thing at the end that everybody hates so make sure you have a quarter and then go ahead and give yourself a blunt tip on both sides then what you're gonna do is you go back to your ironing board you do have to use best press so we're gonna put best press on here and we're going to start with your corners and people talk about burning their fingers but I just have to say I don't typically burn my finger sometimes I don't think I ever have I hate to say that because now I'm gonna burn my fingers because I said I never have but some people have said that you can use like your leather thimble to keep from burning your fingers but my better advice is keep your fingers out of the way okay so we've got that folded over and then now we're going to come up and it's kind of wet so it seems a little funny but then when you fold that see how you have that nice perfect point right there and since you have this best press you're just going to easily you can feel the ridge that edge of your freezer paper as you come around and so you're just going to fold that over give that a really nice press and then we're going to go on the other side I'm going to do that same thing we're just gonna fold that over and again just kind of keep your fingers out of the way there a little bit and come around whole thing pressed over so then what you have is you have these nice crisp points you know because everything is folded over on the other side so so go ahead and work through these and as you work through these then what's gonna happen is you'll come back around and it will have dried and by Dryad I mean the best press has all dried and you don't have a moist little leaf so once you've done that then you can just reach in here and you pull out your freezer paper and again it's not very sticky because it was just about a little bit of wax under there so you pull that out if you want to give it just another quick little press you can but you don't want to add best press at this point because if you do it will bloom and that nice crisp edge will go away so here you have it and then when it's time to go ahead and lay it down on your piece you can go ahead and do your hand stitching but all of your raw edges have been folded over so I'm going to show you on this this is one of the blocks from gossip in the garden so I have my what is this thing called tea pot and so here's my my freezer paper tea pot I don't know what happened there but no big deal I'm just going to take this off and then what's gonna happen is I'm gonna go ahead and stick this down here now oftentimes what I'll do is I'll just go ahead and take my glue and I'm just going to go ahead and and if your glue I've mentioned this before if your glue gets kind of gummy because you've used it multiple times that's the other thing that's good for freezer paper just take your freezer paper and run your glue along the edge there and that'll clean it off a little bit because sometimes you end up getting funny little nasty linty thread bits on there and you'll see I'm going to show you what this looks like after I go around this edge you'll see all have funny little oh no because I said it was going to be there now it's not there but sometimes it is and that's how you clean it off it's just with your freezer paper make sure you put your cap back on there and then you're just gonna flip this over and there on your pattern where it goes you're just gonna go ahead and lay that down and then you can go ahead and and I've talked about this before that I trace everything with my friction marker so that I know where everything goes and also the reason it's nice that it's the friction marker is if something happened and I don't know I don't know if my freezer paper template was a little bit off or my first drawing was a little bit off but it doesn't matter because then I'm just gonna shoot it with the iron real quick and then what happens is my marks have gone away my and now it fits perfectly and nobody knows so now all I need to do is just come back along and again for freezer paper applique I use the same needle same thread that I do for all of my other applique work I just used a straw needle and an ad wait thread I'm just gonna come along right underneath that underside edge and stitch that down and that's what you're doing is since you have your fabric underneath there you're just going to come up just underneath and then just go right down through that same fabric up underneath and my grandmother used to call this the dolphin stitch I don't think a dolphin really swims like that but I believed it when I was small because that's the stitch that you make and it just becomes this nice invisible stitch to hold everything down I had another block somewhere to show you but anyway super simple freezer paper applique just an easy way to go ahead and transfer your appliquéd fabric pieces so that you can easily hand stitch it down after it's done on your fabric so have fun with your applique and happy quilting

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Length: 9min 16sec (556 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 05 2017