Margo we must have pressed the submit button at the same time and mine disappeared into the ether. I was just going to say that what I suggested doesn't make any sense, and it certainly won't make it any easier so please don't try it. Sorry.

I'm not sure you are supposed to iron the pattern to the freezer paper! Just lay the freezer paper on top of the pattern to trace it, then adhere the freezer paper to the back of your fabric.

Definitely try it with a sample first before you ruin your full size pattern!!! :shock:

Reetzbobeetz wrote:
Trust me Rita, watching the video again will not help! She glosses over this part of the process! Okay, so I iron the freezer paper to my pattern, trace (and trace, and trace some more) and then peel the freezer paper off of the pattern, and then re-iron the freezer paper to the fabric. I can follow that process. My only concern might be that the freezer paper may not have as much "stick" as I would want when re-ironing it to the fabric. I will probably give both methods (this one and the freezer paper run through the copier) a try, with some smaller samples.

Thanks all!
Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

My only caveat to Rita's advice would be to make sure that you test using a different piece of paper rather than your design pattern, just in case the freezer paper doesn't come off of the paper. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I've never tried freezer paper on other paper and I would just want to make sure before making a possible mistake. I thought I remembered someone posting in another thread that they had ironed freezer paper onto Ricky's Stable Stuff and couldn't pull it off again.

Nancy

Renata wrote:
Thanks for the information! I had to laugh at the site, though, as my daughter is a C Jenkins! I guess I won't be forgetting that site's name! Anyway, I was probably headed in that direction, just didn't know about the heavier, precut freezer paper. Very cool! This method would be soooooooo much easier!

That being said, if I did the light box method to get the design onto the freezer paper, this would give me the opportunity to clean up some rough areas, before going to cloth. I'm just afraid that if I have to trace it twice, I will lose interest, and it will be yet another incomplete project calling to me for the next two or three years!

Thank you for your wonderful comments!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

Dawn your design is so beautiful! I wonder would it work to iron the roll of freezer paper directly on top of the finished pattern and then redraw it? You would probably have to connect two widths because the freezer paper roll is only 16" wide or something like that. It would stop it from slipping when you are trying to trace the design onto the freezer paper and you would then have a tougher template to put under the fabric for the final tracing onto the fabric. Or am I making this more complicated than it needs to be? I think I need to go watch it again.

Another alternative to transferring might be to use an overhead projector to transfer the design onto your fabric, might eliminate the necessity of transferring it to freezer paper. If I'm not mistaken I believe that is the way Ricky created his Rhapsody quilt.

I know its tedious and I am probably not going to do a wholecloth quilt like this but I do believe that tracing builds skill and helps the final stitching be more perfect. It might be how Sharon has gotten so good at what she does.

Dawn, your design is fabulous!

I agree with Nancy and Margo--that is how I interpreted Sharon Schamber--draw and redraw... Dawn, your design is beautiful--I look forward to seeing it quilted. However, if you are interested in printable-size freezer paper sheets that are usually a little thicker than regular freezer paper, you might want to look at http://www.cjenkinscompany.com/Freezer_Paper_p/8.5x11freezerpapersheets.htm for different sizes/quantities at a good price.

Reetzbobeetz wrote: Rita, That's how I do it. Another method I have used successfully is to scan it in and use printable freezer paper. Now I take my enlarged design and print it into segments of freezer paper that I iron together with strips of freezer paper if they don't overlap enough. If you have either Microsoft Office Excel Spreadsheets, or one of the Corel Draw, these will divide your enlarged designs into the proper sized segments. I think that spreadsheets designed for Macs might also work, but I have a pc and haven't tried it.

You can get freezer paper in printable-size sheets....It would be fussy...but you could print and put together.
For me..beats hand drawing something so detailed !

I agree with Margo. That's the way I understood it. And if you think about Sharon, she's a very meticulous person so wouldn't be adverse to redrawing many times to get the result that she wants. Might be one of the reasons that she wins all of the awards! The tedious work definitely doesn't bother her and her attention to detail is out of this world!

Your design is beautiful and I can't wait to see it in thread!

Nancy

Dawn, that part of her instructions are fuzzy, but I think that you are, in fact, supposed to trace it all off onto freezer paper and trace it yet again onto your fabric.

Have fun!