Looks like that to me too Nancy. I am going to watch part 2 now.

Note: Just reviewed the Marking to the Quilt and noticed that the freezer paper that Sharon is pressing to the back of her fabric is not the full design. It looks to be a little more than half the design. Has anyone else noticed that? or are my old eyes deceiving me?

Just finished watching Sharon's Video for a second time and from what I am getting out of it is that once you have your 1/8 of the design drawn and get the proportion to scale, you take it to a copy center. Have them make the size/scale adjustment (150%; 200%; 300%; etc), have 4 originals and 4 reverse images made and then you can tape them together to create your enlarged copy. Once you have everything taped then you transfer it to the paper side of the freezer paper and then transfer the design to your fabric. I personally don't want to duplicate everything again, so I think using Ricky's transfer method would work much better as was mentioned using the Rhapsody method. If it was a small quilt (24 x 24 etc) Sharon's method might work but anything larger there is just way too much duplication of efforts. I want to start the quilting process. Just my thoughts and opinion.

Another idea is that once it's enlarged (photo copier?), you could use Ricky's method of tracing the lines on the back with a soft pencil, then rubbing them onto the freezer paper using a pointy tool - also shown when Ricky demonstrates his technique for making the bohemian rhapsody quilt...

Dawn, beautiful work. I was mesmerized watching how the seemingly strange angles play out to such incredible designs. I hope if someone gets this transfer process unlocked, they'll share it here, or in the classroom.

You should be able to see through the freezer paper well enough to trace the design without a light box, but light would certainly help!

Thanks Margo...but what about getting the image from the photocopy to the freezer paper? Is it another lightbox job?

At minute 10, Ricky demonstrates how to use freezer paper tape to make a large piece of freezer paper!

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I just watched parts of of the video again and she does not describe or demonstrate how to get the pattern from your enlarged image to freezer paper? Does anybody know how this is done? And presumably the freezer paper has to be joined together because the image is bigger than the width the freezer paper comes in. And also, if you iron the freezer paper to the wrong side of your fabric will it show up enough to copy it to the right side of the fabric? I guess it would if you had an enormous and powerful lightbox. But if your fabric is not light and white then it would be very tricky..

Your design is so beautiful, Dawn. Thank you for sharing. I think I will have a go at drawing a design although I would never be able to stitch it out and I ought to be practising my FMQ instead
I love your idea of putting some appliqué into the open spaces.
Marianne

PDQuilt wrote:
Yeah, I'm not remembering that part very well, either. I know there were a couple of places where she lost me. Obviously I will be watching the video a couple more times! For right now, I will just focus on the designing. I'm thinking I might put some applique in my open/blank areas. The whole designing process is fun, because you just never know where it will lead you!

And, thank you all, for your wonderful comments! It's easy to do things you enjoy, huh!?

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

I finally watched the video today -- wonderful! Inspiring!! I can't wait to do some designs, but I have to put them off for a while yet.

I love what you have so far, Dawn! Can't wait to see it stitched up!

Hmmm, there might be a wholecloth mug rug going to one of my friends..... After the Gloria Loughman one? How many other interesting things am I going to see before I start my mug rugs?????

Nancy

Dawn, what a beautiful design!

REALLY NICE! Have you figured out how to transfer the design to freezer paper? That's the one thing I don't get.