Raw Edge Applique With Freezer Paper and Elmer's Glue

[Music] hi everyone I'm Lisa with Lisa Kaizen quilts in my last video I explained how I had some goals for 2017 and one of them was to accomplish three different quilts today we have begun the first one and it's my bee quilt it's an original pattern that I've designed this year I got different beanie themed fabric and I wanted to design a beast type of quilt and it really stems from a memory that we had on our drive to Vermont maybe I'll go over that story one other time I also explained in my last video how I wanted to teach a method that I use for applique and it's raw edge applique using Elmer's glue and freezer paper so today that's what we're going to do this here is going to be my bee quilt you can see I've already gotten started I've done a couple of the pieces of applique already so that I can show and demonstrate what I do with my applicate pieces on most of my quilts with the flower part of the pattern I have designed this pattern it's an original pattern and I would like to offer it as a free download to people who might be interested in making this quote I'm going to show a picture of my rough draft of the idea of what this quote going to look like I'm going to post a picture right up in the corner so you can see a little rough drafts of what it's going to look like or at least the idea in my mind so far and I am about maybe 85% done with the production of this pattern and that's really exciting because I usually make patterns myself but I've never actually published one or given someone a pattern to use and so that's exciting and I'm really looking forward to getting that finished so along the way I'm going to finish this quilt I'm going to even show a video of how I'm going to quilt this with mr. bobbins and that will all be included in different videos before I publish that pattern because I'd like to put a finished picture of this clip that I'm working on with the pattern so if you're interested or excited about having maybe the pattern for this keep watching the videos and the progress of this quilt as we go along and when I'm done I will offer a free PDF file that you can download and have this pattern like I said I've already started with several of the pieces to sort of speed up the process today but I've left some of the pieces from the pattern and we are going to demonstrate what I do with the freezer paper there are many many different kinds of ways that you can do applique I love doing turned applique for certain projects so about a year ago I came across a technique where this person was using freezer paper and Elmer's glue and doing Ryan gentle okay and I had messed with a large applique before using products like wonder under or different fusible adhesive and I've always found that while it worked really well of keeping your or pieces in place to do the stitching I found that it made the quilt kind of stiff and the in the places where the applique was and so I was on the on the hunt for something different something that would give my quilt the drape in the field of a quilt with out applique but I'd still be able to do the creative things that I like to do with different patterns and pieces with applique so when I came across this technique I was in heaven because I loved it and so I'm going to walk you through the steps of what we do with our patterns and our fabrics to put them on our quilt so this is what I use regular freezer you can find it at any of your grocery stores or Walmart and that's where I like to buy it because you get a great big box and it's relatively inexpensive especially when you count or compare the cost of like your wonder under products or your other fusible applique products this saves so much money and I love the results and then I use OMERS washable cool clip and you want to make sure it's the washable one because when you wash your quilt for the first time all of the glue comes out so you don't have to worry about residues or stains or the glue staying in your quilt you wash the clothes the first time and all of this is gone however it keeps your pieces in place so if you're working on a large project where you know you're going to come in work on it go away for some time come back and it's going to be a long process when you do this you do not have to worry about your pieces coming loose moving the quilt and your pieces falling off everything stays exactly where you're going to want your pieces to be when you go to your machine now what I do is I get my pattern pieces all lined up ready to go and I cut off the piece that I can work with easily and then I don't have to struggle with but yet is big enough to accommodate the pieces you're working on okay so I'm just cutting off a workable size key just like that now what you'll notice about the freezer paper is that one side is matted paper and the other side has done Sheen or shiny side that's the part that we're going to actually iron to the right side of our fabric so when we trace our pattern pieces we want the dull side and inside up okay and it's pretty translucent you can see really well even without a light box you can see your tyrant pieces pretty easily through it you can I do if I stretch out my paper and I grab my pieces I just sort of arrange them so that I can get the most used out of the piece that I cut verses my pattern pieces and at this point you are going to be tracing directly on your pattern line there's no need you do not want to leave room for seam allowances unless you're kind of calling for it but this is raw edge up okay and so we're going to trace exactly on the pattern pieces themselves and they are true to size to your pattern okay and it's that easy and you can write on this I use sharpie sometimes I try to stay away from ballpoint pens with a freezer paper because if you're moving your hand across of it sometimes you get a little bit of mess on your hands so pencil or sharpie some kind of fine tip marker whatever works best for you but they all write really well on the freezer paper and you want to make sure that anything that is important to your pattern piece it's also written onto the freezer paper like your pattern number or any kind of sewing direction and so for this piece we want to make sure we use green fabric and it's PC I've already gone through and pretty determined what color fabrics I'm going to use with each piece so I'm going to go ahead and trace all my pieces and we're going to come back and I'm going to show you what I do next okay we have traced all of our pattern pieces and just like I said before you want to make sure that you write on your freezer paper templates exact directions for each piece and that would include if your applique piece is going to be tucked underneath of another piece I usually like to leave an indicator so that when I'm cutting up out the actual piece that's adhere to the fabric then I'll leave a little bit of fabric to go up underneath that piece at this point we're going to using our our paper scissors we're going to do a rough cut of the pattern piece and at this point you're not going to cut directly on the line I just cut a little bit away from the line we're not actually cutting out the piece piece that we're using in the quote yet so just allowing yourself some give go through and cut all of your pieces out like I said it doesn't have to be perfect it doesn't have to be pretty there are no rules here just like this you can see I have left a little bit of room around this piece and when this piece goes onto the fabric that's when we're going to actually cut on the line that youth trades from your pattern so we're going to go ahead and cut through all of these pieces just like so and then I'm going to show you how to actually appear it to your fabric and then cut out the actual pattern teeth so we'll be right back what I really love about doing applique is you can use all of the scraps that you've been collecting whether it be from ink and clothing or different quote projects that you've done or pillows any of those scraps that you've collected and let's face it we have all collected a lot of scraps you can use all of those scraps in your applique so it's almost like turning your stash fabric into a whole collection of different fabrics that we can use I collected these fabrics from our trip to Vermont and I really love the story behind them and I'd like to maybe share them maybe on my Facebook page with you guys because it just really adds a lot of meaning to this quilt and it's a pretty funny story when we get started doing the freezer paper applique you'll want to do a little bit of prep work and I promise it won't take long but you're going to want to make sure you start your fabrics first you don't necessarily have to pre wash your fabrics unless that's something that you like to do personally for yourself but you will want to starch them and it just adds in the ease of working with the pattern pieces and putting them on your quilt so go ahead and start your fabrics I've already done mine and then we're ready to put our pattern pieces onto our fabric so like I explained before there's a shiny side and a outside an adult's I'd already been predetermined you've already marked your pattern pieces on here we're ready to go ahead and in here our research paper templates to our fabric what I like to do it doesn't have to be perfect sometimes you'll have a direction that your fabric needs to face you can already just go through and predetermine which way you want your fabric to go and then you would just lay your pattern piece down shiny side down take your hot iron and just set it and put it in place it doesn't take very long you can see how fast that was and your freezer paper is staying ok and then we are just going to do a rough cut for the moment while I put the pattern pieces on the other fabrics okay so we have our first piece and then our second piece will be on the green really really quick technique now I'm all about time-saving tips so you can understand why I love this method so much at this point you could go ahead and cut out exactly your pattern piece but for the ease of making this video I'm just going to go through quickly and put our pieces down and then I'll do a more exact cut in a minute it doesn't take any kind of pressure just like that it sticks right to the fabric and we have our last piece okay just like that and we'll do a rough cut just so that we can move this fabric out of the way okay now this is where we would cut directly on the pattern line that we've stripped we've drawn onto the freezer paper and this gives us our exact measurements our exact pattern piece according to the pattern okay so this is where we do not leave the seam allowance just like any other type of raw edge applique you're just cutting on the line [Applause] again see the freezer paper sort of adds a stability to the fabric plus we've already starched it so it should be really easy to cut out your pieces right on the line and pretty close to perfect and you can see we have our pattern piece for our petal go back and trim this just a little bit and like I said before these pieces here are going to actually go underneath the center of the flower so I just love myself some marks so that I leave myself a little bit to tuck up underneath the center now I will go ahead and go through the other two pieces cutting them out on the line and I'll meet back here and show you how to do your placement and have it actually use the glue to glue these in place okay we have our pattern pieces all cut out and now it's the time when you probably want to do a rough layout of where your pattern pieces are going to go especially if you have multiple pieces and it's sort of important that you line them up and know that everything is going to fit or you have everything going in the right direction before you start going through all the process of gluing your pieces in place what I like to use is one of these pins it's a mark begone and disappearing ink and if I'm going to be moving my quilt top from where I'm doing this process to an ironing board then I like to sort of maybe go through and Mark where my pieces are going to go and all of this comes out when you're done so I just go through this give myself a reference point because even though if you make a mistake you can correct it with the Elmer's glue you just take your pieces off you still don't want to go through the whole process of putting all these pieces in place and then finding out that you started in the wrong place and you have to take up all your pieces however but this technique you could do it if you want to do so I'm just marking myself a little reference point so where these pieces go before we move this quilt top I'll meet you at the ironing board okay we have our quilt and we have our pattern pieces all ready to go and we're ready to go ahead and glue these pieces in place now what I love about is is there's no right or wrong you could put this pattern piece on stitch it in place come back and do the next one and stitch it in place but for this particular pattern in this flower I want to go ahead and put all my pieces down and then take it to the machine because once I get to the Machine I just like to go I just like to stitch everything and to me it's faster and like I said time and valuable so I like to go ahead and put all my pieces in place first but you could go back and forth this is where we get to have fun with the glue okay there are different tips that you could buy that actually fit on to your glue bottle there's several different resources online if you're interested in putting like a fine tip onto your glue bottle the dispenses small little amounts of glue at one time I just use it straight from the bottle with the tip that it was given and I've done it so much that I can control the amount of glue that I've put onto my fabric everyone usually says less is more and a little bit does go a long way so if you are able to control it with the nozzle that it came with that's great if not there are tips that you can put onto this that probably make it easier if you are fine that this bottle with this tip is putting too much glue down it all washes out at the end and with this technique we're going to heat set these pieces into place and so you don't have to worry about the glue messing with your machines at all and I notice they could have done it a lot okay so what we do is we go ahead and flip our piece with a standard side up and I like to leave my freezer paper on the pattern piece because see how sturdy this is I can handle my fabric relatively easy it's almost like a piece of paper where if this freezer paper wasn't on there you know how flimsy the fabric piece would be so I like to keep the freezer paper on all my pieces and time actually ready to stitch everything down in place okay and at this point you would just go through and you're just putting a small line of glue relatively close to the edge you don't want to use a lot because when you heat set it the weight of the iron does tend to spread the glue out a little bit that's okay if it does that like I said all of this is going to wash out no worries and that's really it just a small line around the edge of your pattern piece then we're going to find the reference marks where this this pattern piece goes here we go we're going to heat fit it and usually when I have your iron set to a cotton setting this is pretty hot and unless you're working with someone's clothing and then you kind of want to follow the heat instructions according to what kind of fabric it is so that you're not melting any kind of polyesters or rayon most of the time we're using quilting Cotton's so you want to have your heat on your iron set pretty high if you have pieces that are overlapping go ahead and take the freezer paper off once that tea set you can see how pretty that was pretty fast the freezer paper peels off that looks simply easy like that if you grab a corner just lets go off just like so and there you go and you can see that it's go has the movement still has the drape of a piece block or a piece quilt and you don't have the stiffness of using other adhesives you know fusible applique products a little steps all right so we have our a piece down we'll go on to the next piece and again it's just a fine line not much glue you can even do dots if you want I just do a fast line just like so add my teeth line it up just like that and then take your iron and heat set it and that'sa sets the glue it drives it really fast and then you can move all of your pieces nothing's going to fall off while you're manipulating all of this quilt in your machine while you're stitching everything down is all fit where it's supposed to stay this place that I left a corner and seal it back and there's our peace you can already see our flowers starting to take a little bit of shape here I'm really excited to see this quilt when it's finished I'm going to go ahead and glue all of the rest of my pieces down and then I'm going to show you how I do a zig zag stitch to stitch everything in place and it's pretty simple you can use a straight stitch if you want I prefer a zig zag just because I might want to watch this quilt and the zig zag stitch with the raw edge applique you do not get a lot of the little front you might get a string here there but for the most part it's going to be a very clean finish when we're done okay you guys I am super excited I'm not going to show you yet a preview of what this flower is going to look like I'm going to go ahead and stitch all the pieces down first and then I'll show you how our quilt coming along we're at the machine now and now it's time to go ahead and stitch down on your pieces like I said before you can use a straight stitch if you're more comfortable with that or like the look of a raw edge where it's going to do some fraying around your pieces kind of adds like a country look to your quilt or very homey look or you can do a more finished look and that's what I typically prefer to do in case my clients want to wash their quilt then they're not going to have a lot of different strings here and there throughout their quilt we're going to set up our machine to do a zig zag stitch on this quilt so you'll go to your machine and most threes you are familiar with the zig zag stitch on your machine but you want to go ahead and get everything set up make sure you have a satin stitch foot or an open toe foot it allows your needle to move from right to left and you're going to go ahead and set your settings on your machine for zig-zag stitch and what I like to do is just on a scrap go ahead and adjust your stitch width and your stitch length for the type of look that you're going for sometimes I go for a really close stitch and when it's wider and sometimes I spread it out and it's not as as defined as like a true step satin stitch so go ahead and do all your setting test it out on a scrap before you begin on your quilt and at that point we are ready to stitch everything down all right now we're ready to get stitching now this is not a video on how to do the stitching part per se so if you are an absolute beginner and not quite sure how to do the zig-zag stitch for your pieces I really recommend watching some YouTube videos and watching some tutorials on how to familiarize yourself with doing a zig-zag stitch for the applique but I really wanted to show you the whole process for this piece and there is appliquéd technique so I'm going to show you a little bit of the stitching and the progress of this quilt and with any applique you want to lower your stitch your needle to the right side of the piece you're stitching down we're going to work on this yellow checkerboard piece my needles on the right side of the edge of this piece it helps if you have a needle position function on your machine go ahead and set that so that when you stop stitching your needle it's going to be in a down position so that you can pivot or turn your work if your machine does not have that it's okay just whenever you stop before you raise your presser foot to turn the fabric in anyway make sure your needle is in a down position before you turn so we have all of our stitch settings ready to go we have needle position down set we have lower our presser foot and we're ready to start stitching and you can go it's tap or it's slow this is not a race it's not have to be perfect as long as you are getting that raw edge of your fabric this down that is our business doing now what I like to do when I'm doing this is usually I have the same color thread in my bobbin as I do as my cop thread so that if any thread pops to the font you're not seeing a different color for this quilt I just went with like a light beige thread to sort of compliment all of the colors in my piece you could use a totally different color just to add a little dimension a little pop to your applique work for this piece we've gone with just a light beige color you can see it a needle stopped in a down position but now I'm free to raise up my presser foot turn the fabric from lower the presser foot and begin stitching again if your machine doesn't have it it's okay just remember to always lower your needle down into your quilt before you turn and I know a lot of turning you know I've watched a lot of videos where people do this and they just turn on everything in there for me you know I I don't think that there's a right or wrong way to do things I think you do what is comfortable for you what gives you the best results and for me it's off the machine I take my time raise the presser foot and move my fabric so that I'm not having a you know a bunch of bulk or a bunch of wrinkles in there it's just easier for me to see easier for me to manipulate the piece if I stop as I go along remember if you're just getting started or you've only been doing this for a short while you might not have perfect results in the beginning I urge you keep on going because each quote you do you're going to get better and better and better as you go along you know people have been cooking for years you know we watch their videos and we're so inspired and we're ready to go and it can be so discouraging when we finally sit down and get started in our quilt art turning out that way they have spent countless countless hours working to protect their techniques Perfector skills and and it shows and we're not going to get to that level right away it's going to take an investment of time going to take patience I really urge you even if you're not happy with your first quilt or to keep on going and you're going to get better and better as you go along and remember even even people that have been quilting and sewing for thirty forty years they still make mistakes and it's okay and you can see like this fabric here you do get a little fraying you can cut that off when you're done okay now you can kind of get a preview of the different fabrics it's going to be so cute remember whenever you are turning the needle stops in the left position go ahead and crank it back over to the right position so that when you start back again everything all your stitches are lined up you guys I am so excited about the way that this quilt is turning out when we go on our trips and I pick up the fabrics for this year's quilt I don't usually have a quilt pattern or design in mind for for the fabric I just see fabrics that I absolutely love and I pick them up and I really think that this year they are turning out so cute together you can see the progress of where we are now with a quilt and then where I'm taking the quilt and the rough design of what the clothes going to look like when we're done I am so excited I cannot wait to get it done you can see from the rough sketch I still have quite a bit left to do with this quilt we're going to be adding a B and then the letters down below and so we still have a ways to go working on the pattern I'm working on doing the pieces this week and I'll keep you updated on the progress and I'm really hoping to have it finished relatively soon it doesn't take some time I didn't realize how involved the pattern process really was I mean I made time for myself and I know what to do but to make a pattern for for others to follow quite a bit more involved in what I what I expected it to be so it's a learning process and I just gotten to suggest if you're excited or if you have an interest in something to expand on it because it takes you places that a year ago I didn't see myself being here I didn't see myself making patterns for other people and so it's exciting I really urge you to take this step out of your comfort zone and whatever you're doing and and see where it takes you I hope that you have found this video helpful with the raw edge applique technique if you have questions I really urge you you can comment below ask your questions below but i really suggest that maybe you go over to my facebook page at least the casing quilts it's really an open forum where i or other quilters pretty quickly can answer some of the questions that you might have also share pictures of your work i would love to see how you're going to use this technique into the projects that you're doing at home and see where it takes you I'm really hoping that maybe if it's not something that you love to do it just maybe adds another skill set to your toolbox and did you find it helpful if you'd like to follow the progress of this quilt or see the other projects that I'm working on you can follow me at least a champion quilt on Facebook you know it's also find me on pinterest and instagram and twitter you can google Lisa taping quilts and usually those forms come up on Pinterest it's really fun because I share pictures of the quotes that I've done crochet ideas recipes that's always fun there's a lot of different fun projects and things that I've come across and that's why I love Pinterest so much you can also follow me on Twitter and Instagram I'm not as quite as active on those forums but my main focus is creating a very open and active forum on Facebook so follow me at least escape and close and there are no stupid questions I'm a firm believer in that if you have questions about this technique that we've learned today ask them we would love to walk you through any little hiccup that you have with this process and I'd love to see pictures of what you've done using this technique I hope that you've found this really helpful and we have a comment below make sure to subscribe to my channel we're going to be going through all kinds of different techniques tutorials did some free motion clothing with mr. bobbins and we're going to have a lot of fun so thank you for watching our video today and come back and see what we have next time

Channel: Lisa Capen Quilts

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Keywords: Lisa Capen Quilts, Freezer Paper, Applique, Elmer's glue, Raw Edge Applique, Original Quilt Design, Quilt Patterns, Quilting, Quilts

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Length: 38min 0sec (2280 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 16 2017