Quilting with Freezer Paper

quilters newsletter TV the quilters community is brought to you by handi quilter designed by a quilter for quilters and Husqvarna Viking keeping the world sewing for over 140 years hi I'm Laurie Baker we're here today with quilters newsletter TV the quilters community we have Mary Kate Carr Petrus and Mary Kate today you're going to talk to us about freezer paper talk about freezer paper you and I were at a quilt show yeah a few months ago and we were demonstrating a lesson from our easy lesson from our October November 2014 issue which and we called it a mixed media art quilt is a very cute little project that involved freezer paper yes and when we were showing it to people we would just jump in and say well you cut this from freezer paper and you adhere it down and there were a number of times where people would stop us or they'd kind of get a glazed look I mean and I don't hold it against that but they they had no idea know what freezer paper exactly or what it was used for so we thought let's just kind of talk about the basic basics here so this is freezer paper I bought this at my well-stocked local grocery store it was the only one it's not like you know with aluminum foil you have variety of widths and you know this was the only choice available what I find amusing is that it says right here on the packaging used for arts and crafts yes and the story that I've heard and I haven't been able to find like a documentation online but I've heard that there was a time maybe in the 90s where they were gonna stop making freezer paper for consumers because people weren't wrapping their own fish anymore you know what I mean or buying stuff from the butcher and then wrapping it themselves and there was this big hue and cry from quilters say we can't take our freezer paper we need it and so that's what I've heard at least so it has not been discontinued it might you might have to hunt for it on the shelf but it should be there for a well-stocked grocery store but also you can also buy it for craft the craft industry has risen to the challenge too and you can also buy it in sheet that you can feed through your printer which is the really cool idea and I think mm-hmm like eight-and-a-half by eleven inch sheets or variety of things so if your grocery store doesn't work out for you you definitely can find it online yes so so as you can see it has two sides it has the matte paper side and then it has this shiny plastic coated side it's not wax I used to think it was wax paper but it's not wax it's not plastic it's a very light coating of plastic and that is what you use and the two sides do matter so so here let's just go over the technique that we were demonstrating it involves cutting a shape of a leaf it could be any shape really right for this project it was a leaf so these are I traced onto paper that's been used many times as you can see already a couple of leaves from my aspen tree and then I took freezer paper and laid it on top shiny side down yes mat side up just lay it on top and you can see if you might want to use a light table or a window but even so if your if your lighting is pretty good and your eyesight is pretty good you can you can see through that it's transparent enough and just trace your shape you know that pencil or a pen whatever works and then cut it out with paper scissors and you can cut as much detail into that for this application right as you want and you really as you can see I cut a lot of these little serrated edges into it none of that is waste of time it's all gonna rock we're gonna see all of that so then take a just a piece of fabric would I forget what the original lesson called for but what ever you're going to be painting on we're going to be using a paint stick I should mention when you have a shape like this it's called a mask a stencil is where you would get the positive image so you would it's cut so that you have the outline and the inside is empty refu well this is a mask so it's essentially the inside part of a stencil right so we're we're going to be painting around this shape so it's going to give us a negative yes image but again it's really it's really neat so then I just come over here and make sure that my iron hasn't turned off and then I just literally with again shiny side down you want shiny side down basically all it took yeah and it's just enough to make that shape that freezer paper shape stick to your fabric and that's really all you want you could use a grip mat for this next step or painters tape right but we're just going to quickly show the rest of this technique that we were doing using a paint stick it's oil-based paint these things don't dry out they might develop a bit of a crust after not being used for a few weeks or months but then you just kind of crack that off and then underneath they're beautiful soft and you just paint it onto the freezer paper template you're not touching the cloth at all no all on the tablets all on the paper I don't want to get too close to the edges and then I'm using a stencil brush and you can however you want to brush it off onto the fabric is this is just fun it's easy it's no pressure you can brush it off like this with using kind of a brush stroke or you can use more of a standard stenciling you know swirling the brush like this and let's just get it all off so that we can see the shape when we pull it up it's very quick I found this very satisfying I don't I'm not a painter but so there was something really fun about the painter leanness I don't know of using a brush it was just a new a new technique for me while still feeling like oh this is a quilting project I'm not getting out of my you know self-imposed boundaries or what-have-you if those things matter to you hopefully they don't yeah but it's a good entree maybe into another craft because we all need more stash right that's what we all need to go out to have more more craft supplies so then you can really easily just kind of get your fingernail into there and it comes right up and look at that like I said none of the time I took to cut that detail into the edges was wasted you see all of that right there and then if you want to see our October November 2014 issue you can see how the project was completed with hand stitching you could do machine stitching whatever but it's just a really nice fun little project so that's one use of freezer paper the other thing that's nice about the freezer paper is you can use it multiple times I'm not going to throw this away right I can use it again and in fact I still have some of my templates left over from that demo that we did these are painted because they've been used before but I'm not going to I didn't mean to throw that on the floor I'm not going to throw them away yet because they still have some life left in them on the back and you never know when I'm I never know when I might want to use them again because like I said it was really fun I really enjoyed it so that was the first technique and that was the one that really inspired us to want to do all right this episode correct but there are other applications and actually going back a little bit more toward the beginning of our education as quilters write applique applique to be specific turn to edge exactly exactly you can do which as opposed to needle turn the I'll turn is where you're using the needle to bend those edge under this is a turned edge a technique when you get a pattern your shapes your applications might come on a pullout pattern sheet like this so just this is one of ours we're just gonna show a simple circle today we just wanted to talk briefly about how you would prepare your applicator your templates if you had a more complicated shape like this um you would trace each shape individually and you would just sort of guess or infer where the line that goes underneath and overlaying shape goes you trace each one separately and cut them out separately but for now we're just going to show a circle so I've already gone ahead and it's the same thing I'll just show again you just lay your freezer paper same the idea shiny side down yes trace your shape cut it out except here we are not going to adhere it to the right side of our fabric now the technique that I showed before with the painting ice showed it on a solid fabric so there was really no right or wrong side that is something you do on the right side of the fabric right it's a print you know a blender or what have you with heat with Ted with applique you're going to stick it to the wrong side of the fabric turn that over again take it and it only takes a few seconds that sound tells me it's done yes and then we rough cut around it oh these lock they're so fancy for turned edge applique the rule of thumb is about 3/16 of an inch most of us aren't going to be that precise but that's just sort of eyeballing it's letting you know it's it's a real scant quarter inch so you just rough cut around it so when you're if you're cutting multiple shapes whoops it's a little tight if you're cutting multiple shapes out of the same fabric you might want to lay them all down make sure that you've got enough at least a half inch between each one so you have enough seam allowance because you're not there's no seam allowance built into these applique you add your seam rounds okay there you go there you go I guess I should lock these again nope didn't happen okay and then we are going to starch down the edges so here we have some spray starch I'm just gonna spray it into this Cup just to get a little bit in there that's enough then I'm gonna use this q-tip dip it in and go around and paint here I'm talking about how I never get the opportunity to paint I guess I should be doing more turned edge yes applique and we're just going to go around and paint all of the edges okay so I've basically got my edges painted down if you will and family wet acts fairly wet right then take it back over to our pressing surface and if you want to use a stiletto of some sort you know there are a variety of tools you can use to kind of hold this but I am gonna live dangerously and then we just press the edges around easing in the fullness so for the sake of time I'm not gonna go all the way around and you would want to you know take your time with it right and work your work your that ease a net fulness you know take some time with it but I just wanted to show how and again this is not in the interest of time yes you would want to make a nice smooth edge but then you can just peel out carefully gently gently peel out your freezer paper and it holds you could give it another good press yes you want it although this is on Steam right now so I don't want to undo the good work I just did but and then again you can probably get at least one more usage out of this before you've got a toss it right and then you have your you don't have to leave any basting stitches in you don't need - then go back and cut a slit in your backing fabric - pull out the paper template or rip out any basting stitches which is the real old-school right traditional way of doing turned edge hand applique and you can finish this by hand or by machine how much do you love that yes I like the machine part I know you do and that is another just a real classic quilters way of using freezer paper so we just wanted to talk about that so that people know that this is another tool that's out there it can make your life easier and it can really increase your creativity I mean I had never thought about doing paint stick painting before this project came to us exactly and now it just I have so many ideas of how I want to use it yes and freezer paper is our friend it absolutely is it absolutely is so just pick next time you're in the grocery store pick up a roll and that way you've got it next time a project comes up that calls for it exactly thank you Mary Kate my pleasure and thank you for joining us do come back and see us again next time and until then happy quilting quilters newsletter TV the quilters community is brought to you by handi quilter designed by a quilter for quilters and Husqvarna Viking keeping the world sewing for over 140 years

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Keywords: QN TV, Quilters Newsletter TV, Quilters Newsletter Community, Mary Kate Karr-Petras, art quilts, applique, mixed media art quilt, Lori Baker

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Length: 14min 33sec (873 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 02 2015