mellymoo wrote:
Hi Renata
I too am using Carol Doak's paper. How did you manage inserting the circles into the background peice ? I found the paper to be a little stiff and could not manipulate the peice, eventually I removed it. Have you got any suggestions?
Hi, Mellymoo!
I agree with you that the paper is a little stiff to put under your presser foot and keep everything together. However, I took some thread and basted the circle in by hand making sure that I put the needle in on the line on both sides, removing the pins as I went along. This allowed me to make sure that I had everything in place smoothly before I went to the sewing machine. Then I placed the piece under the sewing machine needle and stitched around the circle on the basting line with a stitch length of 3.0. My paper is still on and was just fine. The pins were actually getting in the way and not keeping the piece nicely together. Does that make sense? Let me know how things work out for you.
Cheers,
Renata