Ann, thanks for the tips! That's more than we got from Sharon when it came to transferring the pattern to the freezer paper! I've never owned a light box, so I guess that will be my next purchase. And, some silk thread for stitching it. My feathers are fairly small, so the finer the thread, the better!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

A little late to this discussion and given the caveat that I do not use templates etc in my quilting but I do use a light box a lot. If you are worried about slipping when you are tracing, make sure you have lots of blue painters tape around. It is my "go to" whenever I am tracing anything. Tape the original to the light box. Put on your freezer paper or fusible or whatever and tape that down too. Trace away. Nothing moves. If you are like me and using fusible very frugally (not sure of my spelling but just say I am cheap. LOL) I pick up the fusible with the painters tape attached and set it down in another spot and anchor it. The painters tape lasts a long time with the same stickiness so no problems there and it pulls off almost any kind of surface without damage or residue. (unless you leave it for months or years on a UFO won't speculate on that except based on a couple of my own bad experiences) Anyway painters tape is my quilting friend and it is my artist friend when I am tracing for a painting or wood burning project. It is the BEST!!!!!!! Hope this is helpful, Hugs, Ann

Now, I have to go back and figure where I've gone wrong And I even read this whole thread before I watched... Thanks for the info, Dawn.

SueinNH wrote:
Sue, she has actually ironed the freezer paper to the backside of the fabric. This helps to stabilize the fabric, so that you can darw on it (tracing the pattern that has been peviously applied to the freezer paper) without the fabric shifting or moving in front of the pencil. This is the same technique that quilters have used for signature blocks. Works wonderfully. As for ironing the freezer paper to the pattern...................doesn't work! Or I should say it works to well! You cannot separate the two once ironed! The step we have all missed is how she gets the pattern to the freezer paper! That is still a mystery! Like I've said before, I cannot imagine tracing the whole design twice!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

Just watched today for the 1st time. Maybe I'm missing something ?

I thought she ironed the freezer paper to the back of the design paper, then placed that on a light box (?), placed the fabric on top of the design/freezer paper sandwich and traced.

I wouldn't be surprised if I missed a step in there, but that's what it seemed like at the time.


Sue

This is what John Anderson said on 3 April when someone asked about getting questions to Sharon Schamber:JOHNANDERSON wrote:
When he said "Put your questions in this area..." he was referring to the topic at [url]forum/the-classrooms-discussions-and-questions/6254-sharon-schamber-video[/url]

Hope this helps.

Yeah Margo. I kinda knew that, LOL

Doesn't look like it. There have been four pages of questions about this one issue so far. I'm thinking there is no easy way around it Dawn, you are just going to have to trace it out onto the freezer paper and then again onto the fabric. I suppose by the time you have done it two more times you will have so much of the design in your muscle memory that it might make it easier to actually stitch it out. Are you wishing you had made it a little less detailed now? I think it's going to be beautiful because your design is really beautiful. Good luck, and may the force be with you.

I'm not sure, but I don't think she is available for questions.

It would be SO HELPFUL if this question could be directed to HERSELF. :shock:

Good luck, Dawn!

Connie, I'm not sure if that would work or not. Theoretically, the freezer paper gets ironed onto the back (wrong side) of the fabric and I trace the entire design onto the front with the aid of a light box. My little feathers and skinny, multiple lines would probably shred the freezer paper, if I was to needle perforate them! It is a small quilt with a lot of detail. But, thank you for trying to come up with an easy solution for me! I'll probably just have to bite the bullet, and trace each and every little detail! Twice! :shock:

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

Dawn, I'm speaking out of total ignorance here, but is this one of those times where you could trace an eighth of the design on freezer paper, then stack it on 7 other sheets and needle perforate it? You would have to do some careful trimming of the edges of each freezer paper piece, but it "seems like" you could iron the pie pieces onto the top, then pounce the design. On second thought there may be some mirror image issues necessitating two patterns, but I was always better at biology than geometry!

Okay ladies, I did try ironing the freezer paper to a COPY of a portion of my pattern. It can be done, but is very risky. If the iron is too hot, you will NEVER be able to pull the freezer paper off without pulling some of the paper off the pattern piece. With just the right temp (very, VERY low) I did have success in lightly bonding it, and having it peel away cleanly. I do kind of like this because, knowing me, my pattern would slip at some point on the light box, and I would be trying to line it up again. But, like I said, it is risky! Also, I'm not sure there was as much "stick" to it when I tried to iron it to a scrap of fabric. I might just try using my little one inch square Clover iron, and "tack" a few of the open areas, where there are no printed design lines. That would help to hold my pattern in place, and not ruin any of the design. But, I'm still experimenting.

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montata



Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana