Raw Edge Applique using Freezer Paper & Elmer's Glue - Making Mr. Pumpkin

hi guys welcome back I've had a ton of questions and comments on my previous video about using freezer paper and Elmer's glue to do raw edge applique so today we're going to make a pumpkin a small little project for Halloween and I'm going to bring you along and hopefully answer some of the questions that you might have about this technique stay tuned [Music] all right before we get started I wanted to answer a couple questions I had about the freezer paper freezer paper has been used for years and years in the sewing room a lot of people use it on the backside of your fabric to do needle turn to applique maybe we'll do a video on that one day soon my favorite applique method is the raw edge applique only because I'm looking to save time and the freezer paper with the Elmer's glue is applique on a budget and I'm all about looking for smart time saving money saving ways to complete my projects with a very professional look and so that's one of the reasons why I love the raw edge applique with the freezer paper now I've had some questions about the freezer paper freezer paper typically is used in the kitchen to freeze your meats and things like that it is different than your wax paper where wax paper has a waxy coating on both sides and it's not like the parchment paper that is a dull side on both sides the freezer paper has a dull side which you can write on and then it has a waxy side which really keeps your meats fresh in the freezer things like that it also keeps your meat from sticking when it's in the freezer you can unwrap it and it's not going to stick like you know aluminum foil would but for years people have been using freezer paper in the sewing room to do applique projects it even has on the Box quilt applique awesome right so the wax side is not sticky to the touch it is slick however when you heat set this onto your fabric this waxy side acts like a glue however when you remove the freezer paper from your fabric there is no residue left on your fabric whatsoever and this comes off pretty easy and so you don't have to be scared to use this on your fabric that's not going to stick permanently and it's not going to leave a waxy stain that you're gonna have to worry about ruining your project the glue I use the Elmer's washable school glue and this is perfect because it's fast it saves money versus you're like Heaton bond and steam Essene product the fusible webbing can get pretty pricey and some projects really call for those products and then a lot of the projects that I do this works perfectly and again we're sewing on a budget but very professional results now we are heat setting this glue and so you don't have to worry about your machine the needle getting gummy or messing with parts of your machine the glue when we take our product our project to the machine will be dry so you don't have to worry about that and you also don't have to worry about it staining or staying in your quilt because the first time you wash your quilt all of the glue products come out and so what you're left with is a very nice drape to your your project your fabrics keep a really soft feeling to them where some of your fusible products you know if you've used them can be a little stiff and leave your fabrics where you've used those products with a little bit of a different feel and so when you've used this and you've stitched everything down washed your quilt the fabrics feel like cozy quilty fabrics all right I'm trying to think if there were any other questions what I'm going to do now is turn the camera down to our work surface I'm going to show you our pattern and how we trace out our pieces on our freezer paper and we're gonna go ahead and make this pumpkin okay you guys I have got my materials ready I have my pattern pieces ready today we're going to make this cute little pumpkin and we're going to add a face to him today I'm going to use a denim base I love using denim and recycled blue jeans in my projects and so I've already ironed that I do have a stabilizer on the back just so that the denim isn't stretchy and so we're going to get started one thing to remember when you're doing the raw edge applique is that you do not have to mirror-image your pattern pieces where if you are doing the fusible products to do fusible raw edge applique or if you are going to do needle turned applique you would want to reverse your images or mirror image your pattern pieces before you get started the raw edge up Lakai with the Elmer's glue and freezer paper that's one step that you can eliminate so print out your pieces and do not worry about doing a mirror image so this is what our pumpkin is going to look like when we're done and I have just the map of where the different pieces go and then I have my stencil piece that we're going to actually trace you can see the lines are thinner and we're going to get started now remember your freezer paper has the shiny side and then the dull side the shiny side is what we actually iron to our fabrics and the dull side is what we trace on you can see that you can see through the freezer paper and that makes it perfect for tracing your patterns and so we're just going to get started and make sure you label your pieces as you go now I like to give a little space between my pieces so I move my freezer paper over and you guys the the freezer paper comes in a huge roll you can get that at your grocery store I found like my local Farm Fresh has it but you don't get quite as much and it cost more so I go to Walmart remember shiny side those sides I go to Walmart and buy mine and you get a huge roll it's like 150 square feet which lasts me forever and I think their price is like five or six dollars my hands are shaking you guys does anybody else have shaky hands it is a hereditary thing that runs in my family and then we have two little small pieces I'm going to make them a little bit bigger for our little pumpkin guy here and then we have a truck piece can you see through that yeah I guess you can see that okay and just like that we have all of our pattern pieces you can see I separated them so that makes it easy to go through and cut these pieces out at this point you're going to do a rough cut not on your tracing line but around your pattern piece okay and so I'm going to go ahead and bring you to the iron we are ready to rough cut these out and iron these pieces down see this leg and I really just trimmed so that I'm not wasting a ton of fabric just like that so remember we're not cutting on the tracing line yet we're giving ourselves some room I'll cut one of these out one more so that you can see about how much room I give myself just like that so I'll cut the rest of our pattern pieces out and I'll bring you over to the iron okay you guys we have all of our pattern pieces cut out and we are ready to start putting our pieces onto the fabrics that we're going to use and I've picked out my fabrics for this project and they're all scraps from other projects that I've completed and so I'm just going to show you how we go about getting these ready you want to set your iron to a cotton setting usually I use like a six and it helps this waxy side adhere to your fabric and again we are putting our pattern pieces to the right side of our fabric not the wrong side okay so let's see I'm going to show you how it sticks to our pieces for this color we're going to do his eyebrows and it doesn't take long you guys it's just as quick as that our pattern pieces are stuck to our fabric and what it does is it adds stability and gives you your pattern tracing line all in one okay and we wanted to do our trunk let's see let's make that a little bit smaller so that it fits on there there's our trunk piece and just like that it is pressed down now we can move on to our eyes and our nose it helps me when I'm doing raw edge applique with a ton of different little pieces not only to put the pattern piece on your individual pieces but to also give yourself little directions so that you know when all these pieces are cut out you're putting them onto your block which way is up and which way is down so I put little arrows just to help me so there's our eyes and our nose and then we're going to use this as the body of the pumpkin again right side up and we're just pressing these pieces down see if any other ones will sit on here yep he'll fit so you can see how quick this is your eyes just like that you under this piece and now let's bring out that piece in there and one more piece I try to find the best way that the pieces will fit on there so that I waste there's a little fabric as possible because even this piece here will be saved for a project who knows when but look how awesome this fabric is so we will save those pieces all right all of our pieces are ironed down and so now is the time when you actually cut on the pattern line itself these lines that we made by tracing that's when we go ahead and cut directly on those lines my hands scream there we go you guys making me these videos maybe for some people it just comes naturally for me it does not and high school I had to take public speaking classes and I would break out in a cold sweat see just like that it's our perfect pattern piece I would break out in a cold sweat I would have nightmares like the the week before I had a project doing that class I would have nightmares so I am trying to break out of my fear of making these videos just because I know that these tips although I'm not the only person out there showing these but I know that a lot of people find these videos helpful so I am trying to break out of my fear of public speaking and making videos in order to bring these tutorials to you guys just like that we have our a piece so I might be a little bit chattery or just ramble on you guys I apologize and you know it's awesome about YouTube is that it's my video style or teaching style is annoying there's a lot of other people out there that maybe are better for you to watch but I hope that you are patient with me I think each video that I do gets a little bit easier and easier and so you know what we all have areas in which we can grow and what areas that we can improve on so that's what I'm trying to do with my videos but thank you guys for being patient with me we'll cut out this one last piece together is chilly here in the shop I'm really trying to refrain from turning the heater on because here in Virginia it's like hot one day and you have the a/c on and then the next day it's chilly and you're like oh I have to turn the heater on but I am really trying to refrain from doing that because they had the a/c on yesterday all right you guys I'm going to go ahead and cut out the remaining pieces it's just a few and then I'm gonna bring you we're going to show you how to glue them to your block okay you guys we have all of our pieces cut out and we are ready to use the Elmer's glue now there are special tips that you can buy for your glue that gives you a very small line of glue if you have problems using the nozzle that comes with the glue I've done this so much that I I just use the hustle that comes on there and you can adjust the amount of glue that comes out and knowing that all the glue washes out of your quilt to me I'm good with that so remember we are using this school glue and we have the map of where all of our pieces go and we're ready to get started so remember we're leaving the freezer paper on our piece through this process you don't want to take that off it gives you the pattern piece and it adds stability to your fabric okay we'll see how the same fabric if you were trying to glue a piece see how it drapes and this is a much smaller piece which would be even harder to handle but the freezer paper adds stability to your piece so we're leaving that on through the gluing process oh I'm just want to make sure you can still see that yes all right I like to just run a small little bead of glue close to my edges they don't have to be directly on the edge now you can use small dots if you want to use dots you can do a bead of glue I wouldn't use a ton of glue but maybe you can see the amount of glue that I've used so now you guys were just decorating at this point it's like a big puzzle we're going to put that down where we want it let's move our other pieces over and now we're going to heat set that again still keeping the iron at your cotton cotton setting and I usually use like a six and a nosteam we're looking to dry the glue and set our piece down through the stitching process so we're just looking to dry the glue and it really just takes about that long and so our piece is on now it's still really hot so I'm not going to handle it a lot but this will keep so let's say you're doing a project and you only have little pieces of time to work on it you can get some of your pieces glued down leave the freezer paper on during this process but you don't have to worry about your pieces getting lost or coming up they are good to go until you stitch them down so you can go away for any amount of time come back and everything is exactly where you still need it to be you can see just a small amount of glue we're gonna put him yeah it looks good there and we're just drying the glue and it does not take a long time just like that so see you guys it it is relatively quick we'll do one more piece again with the Elmer's glue you don't have to worry about it gumming up your machine it is just like any other type of fusible product that you use you're stitching through all of that so your machine is going to handle this fine now you wouldn't want to bring this over while it's wet because then you could have some issues but once the glue is dry you're fine see just like that at this point we have all of our paper pieces glued down move down to our block and we're ready to go ahead go ahead and remove the freezer paper because we have glue it up you're gonna have the less rain that you'll have freezer papers are holy ones right now the fabric is a fabric and that's what it wants to do and so the closer you have your glue to the edge of the fabric the better or the less fraying you'll have when you're taking off your pieces but you'll see the freezer paper comes off pretty easily I like to let my pieces cool down really well and I find that the freezer paper comes off a lot easier after the pieces that pulled down just like any other kind of applique project you're doing you can do the layering you can see we have our pumpkin body here and now we can come in with our face and glue down those pieces now at this point I think I'm going to go ahead and stitch around my edges remember we are using school glue it does wash out you will you want to use a stitch around each one of these pieces and the type of stitch is really up to you you could use a satin stitch you could use a zig zag stitch and those two stitches are going to really help keep your edges from fraying you could do a blanket stitch or just a straight-line stitch close to the edge of your pieces now keep in mind those kind of stitches if you wash the product your piece after you're done you will have some fraying of your edges which in some projects might be the look you're going for if you're going for like a country shabby kind of look then that those kind of stitches with this process works really really good okay you guys we have stitched down all of our pieces to our base we have used a small zig-zag stitch using some brown thread around each one of the pieces and now everything is stitched down what does exact stitch you should not get any fraying you might get a loose string here or there but for the most part all of your pieces are going to be nice and secure without any fraying you could use a blanket stitch or a straight stitch close to your edge and that will give you sort of a shabby look to your pieces which is kind of pretty in a lot of different projects I wanted to show how you can still layer using this technique with your pieces after they're stitched down I'm going to come in with the face pieces and really this is probably my favorite part is deciding where all the pieces go like decorating your pumpkin I think his face looks really kind of angry here so again just like the body of the pumpkin we're going to use a small amount of glue around all of our pieces right up to the edge and it is just a small amount you guys and then we put all of our pieces down I went ahead and did this with all of our pieces and the glue stays wet and workable and you can rearrange your pieces before you've ironed them down gives you plenty of working time using the Elmer's glue also keep in mind if you put a piece down and you heat set it with your iron the piece can be taken up and moved just have to be careful with it but it can be taken up and I'm going to go ahead and put all of these pieces where I want them to be and then our heat set all of the pieces at the same time with my iron and then next I'm gonna show you the finished result okay you guys we are all finished with the stitching you can see that I came in with my darning foot or a free motion foot on my domestic singer machine and did some stitching just as a decoration I put in his eyes and I went around all of his face pieces sort of give some definition I think my fabric choice for his eyebrows could have been different but you know what I really like him and I think that that's really all that matters is are you pleased when you're done you can see he's pretty close to our pattern piece I think he looks a little angry though that's okay with me though you guys I really like him and I hope that this video has been helpful if you had any questions about using the Elmer's glue and the freezer paper I hope this video has answered your questions if not you are free to leave questions down below in the comment section and I'll try to get back to you you can always join me again over at Lisa Cape and quilts on Facebook I'm pretty active over there and you can share pictures of your work and how you've used this technique and I would love to see your pictures if you are interested in any of my future videos you can click Subscribe and see the little Bell next to it click that you'll be notified when I make new videos and some of the videos I have coming up I've been asked to show how I make my binding for my quilts and how I bind the quilts and then also how I cut out my t-shirts for t-shirt quilts so if you're interested in making a t-shirt quilt stay tuned for that video I'll show which rulers that I like to use and how I Center my logos and make my blocks for those quilts thanks again you guys for watching thanks for dealing with my rambling on and if you don't mind my rambling on go ahead and subscribe and you can also leave video suggestions if there's something that you'd like to see go ahead and comment below I appreciate all you 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Channel: Lisa Capen Quilts

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Keywords: raw edge applique, applique, freezer paper, elmers glue, quilting, lisa capen quilts, glue on fabric, freezer paper templetes, freezer paper quilting, embroidery

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Length: 30min 51sec (1851 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 26 2017