Wool Tutorial Part 1

Oh you you hi everyone today I'm going to give a little tutorial on how I prep my wall projects I've received some emails from students and also from friends who have picked up their first full project and now they are ready for the prepping and it's a little I do it a little differently than some my friends do Spargo she does not use fusible and it gives more dimension to her projects but I really like fusible because I travel a lot and some of my projects just have so many pieces to them and I don't want to lose a leaf on an airplane or in an airport or dig around in the car so I am a die-hard fusible now the projects that I do are from small to big and I use it with all of them the products that I use on my projects are SF 101 it's a Pelin product it is a fabric that has a fusible on one side and you can feel it because it feels rough and the other side feels smooth like regular fabric lifting the other is this soft fuse now I order it by the roll one of my local quilt shops started carrying it I know the stitching post has it and I think so many quotes but if your shop does not carry it you can order it off of Amazon it does come in 8 by 10 sheets or in a roll and I just buy the roll because I know I'm going to use a lot of it and with bridge projects it's just nice to be able to cut off a big chunk I don't waste it though so I save the little pieces that I am not using it because I could do a leaf on it or some other small motif I'm going to show you with one of Stacy West's from buttermilk bass in one of her small projects because my friend Bonnie in Santa Barbara ordered one of her little mats and I thought this would be the perfect project to show you on I ordered the kit so in that kit I got the pattern and all the wool that I would need for this project when you're doing a wool project you're going to take that pattern out and one of the first things you're going to do is you're going to look at how it is printed because you're going to have to trace it in Reverse if you want it to look like this pattern so if you notice on these two sheets of paper the truck is facing to my left but on the pattern it is facing to my right which means that this designer already reversed it for you so you'll be able to trace it as it sits now some people don't reverse their designs and so the truck will be facing the same direction and if you trace it it isn't like a make-or-break situation but it means that your project will be facing the opposite of the photograph which tends to bug me so I always trace my patterns so it's going to look exactly like the colored picture there are two ways to trace a pattern onto your soft fuse one is to place it on lightbox and then place your soft fuse over the top and you can just see it through the soft views and then just trace it with a pencil or you can tape it to a window if you don't have a light box and trace it through the saw the soft views so that you can see the lines on your pattern from the light through the window if your pattern is not reversed and what I mean by that again is that this truck is not facing the opposite direction of the pattern piece so we have the truck facing my left the patterns facing my right if this pattern the truck also faced my left then you would want to put it backwards on your light box or on the window and trace through the back of the paper pattern and then you'll get the correct formation of the pieces so next what I do now that I've traced all of my pieces onto the piece of soft use and see how I just cut a chunk off and then I've traced all the motifs that are on this pattern onto my soft fuse there's still some space down here where there are no motifs I'll save that piece for another project because it's big enough to fit something else on and I'm not going to waste anything so once I have everything traced then I'm going to cut these all apart and fuse them on the wool so when I'm looking at my pile of wool that was provided I know I can tell which pieces go in which spots this is going to be the background to my motif and the reason I use SF 101 Pelin product is because a lot of wool can be loosely woven and when you cut it on the bias it'll start raveling as you manipulate it and also as you can see it doesn't have a lot of firm body to it and so when I'm holding it to stitch a motif it's going to get stretchy and Ravel so what I do to make that not happen is I place a piece of the SF 101 on the back I what I've done here is I've taken a chunk off of my a bolt and the pattern shows to put it on the fold line and trace your background so here is my the size of my mat is right right there so I'm going to fuse that on to there so even though the products don't require you to use steam because I'm using wool which is thicker i steam the heck out of my stuff I don't iron and stretch it but I do steam it so I have my SF 101 piece and I drew both lines just to kind of give me a guideline to how big the mat is and I know that it is going to fit on the inside line is going to fit on this piece so I'm going to iron that with the steam on just to kind of hit it go in there and then I'm going to make sure that sideline is right inside of my wolf piece and then I'm going to just iron it with steam on I have my iron set to cotton which is number seven on my iron and then what I do is I turn it over and steam through the backside of the wool making sure that the side of the SF 101 that you put against the wool was the rough side not the smooth side you want the sticky side down so I've cut out my piece it has the SF 101 Pelin product on the back and as you can see this is not stressing stretchy and it has a little more body to it so it's going to hold up to me stitching on it and not get that bias edge all stretched out or star traveling now I have favorite scissors like everybody else does and wool scissors have a little little teeth to the blade and that's how it cuts to the wool so well my favorite ones by far are the KY scissors it's it's because they pretty much can do fine because they're sharp to the tip and they're just good in my hand they feel good and I know that the stitching post carries the KY scissors these scissors are an Olfa product and they were my first wool scissors and they are like like gardening shears they're big they're they'll cut through any thickness of wool they were great scissor the only issue I had with them is they have a more blunted tip and so the Kai's were better for them and then I bought some other little scissors to try them out but I keep going back to these kaisers and I know the stitching post carries them at all all sizes so my next step is to look at my wall and figure out according to the picture which color goes to which motif and you can see I rough cut these pieces out I did not cut on my draw line because that is where I'm going to ultimately cut but I didn't want to waste a lot of my wall because I save all the little scraps now I know that this big piece of wool is eventually going to be the background of this so I'm going to set that aside for now because I will not need to do anything with that my stitching is all done so here's the rest of the wool and I'm kind of stingy with my wall I like to save all the little pieces that I can so I try to get the motifs as close to the edge and fit as many as I can and sometimes when I get a kit there might be a piece I'm not real fond of and I'll switch it out for something I have but in this case I'm going to use all the wool that was provided now I know this big piece is going to be the truck so I'm going to set my truck on there and I'm going to get it as close to one edge as I can and I'm going to steam it now I have my iron set on cotton and I'm just going to iron over that ironing making sure that the rough side is down against the wool and the smooth side is up on this soft fuse even though it looks like it's attached pretty well I still go on the back side of my piece and I steam through the backside of the wool because I do not want that piece to come off of the motif in the background so that they have the motif come off the background so I'll just kind of leisurely iron of course on a day that's 80 degrees outside this is kind of a hot job feel like you're in up working in a lawn Oh Oh you

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Keywords: Wool tutorial, Buttermilk Basin designs, Quilter's Affair

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Length: 14min 10sec (850 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 30 2016