Show and tell with helpful tricks

[Sheila P.]

I can find edit and go there but cannot find delete

[julie S.]

Love the background

[Maryjaneefs]

STUNNING!!

[Sharon R.]

Thanks for sharing, I absolutely love your background fabric!!!

[Beth B.]

It’s been quite a while since I’ve used a forum, so I have a lot to relearn! I’ve started my January blocks and will be doing a scrappy Color My World with fabrics from my Kaffe Fassett Collective stash. I have been using freezer paper almost exclusively for foundation piecing, and I have a couple of tips. 1. Set your iron one little click below the hottest setting for your fabric. I found that the fabric sticks better. 2. I put a piece of parchment paper on my wool mat, so that I can iron my first piece of fabric onto the parchment by putting the fabric right side down, then the freezer paper print side up. Then iron. Let it cool a second, then just peel it off the parchment. No gumming up your iron, and no fuzzies from your wool mat stitching to the freezer paper. I also keep a smaller piece of parchment paper available to use like a pressing cloth for those times when I’m ironing with the fabric side up so that I don’t gum up the iron if the fabric isn’t covering everything any my iron is bigger than the fabric area. 3. I use my edge joining foot with the guide in the center to sew my seams. I just align the guide with the folded paper and get perfect seams. Hope these tips are useful.

[Beth B.]

It’s been quite a while since I’ve used a forum, so I have a lot to relearn! I’ve started my January blocks and will be doing a scrappy Color My World with fabrics from my Kaffe Fassett Collective stash. I have been using freezer paper almost exclusively for foundation piecing, and I have a couple of tips. 1. Set your iron one little click below the hottest setting for your fabric. I found that the fabric sticks better. 2. I put a piece of parchment paper on my wool mat, so that I can iron my first piece of fabric onto the parchment by putting the fabric right side down, then the freezer paper print side up. Then iron. Let it cool a second, then just peel it off the parchment. No gumming up your iron, and no fuzzies from your wool mat stitching to the freezer paper. I also keep a smaller piece of parchment paper available to use like a pressing cloth for those times when I’m ironing with the fabric side up so that I don’t gum up the iron if the fabric isn’t covering everything any my iron is bigger than the fabric area. 3. I use my edge joining foot with the guide in the center to sew my seams. I just align the guide with the folded paper and get perfect seams. Hope these tips are useful.

[Stephanie H.]

Thanks you!

[Vikki B.]

Got creative with the windows and added curtains and an attic window.

[BETH F.]

small house 1 with New York subway and streets as the background

[Mary F.]

LOVE ALL of the many helpful suggestions from this post, including using an edge stitch foot (Bernina #10D for me) AND the Clover stick mini iron. Both of these items have made this project very enjoyable! Looking forward to working on the Mariner's Compass next!

[Sandra B.]

[Robin G.]

No one has mentioned moving the needle over a notch or 2 with the Bernina 10 D edgefoot. Wouldn't you have to do that? Thanks.

[Marti O.]

No one has mentioned moving the needle over a notch or 2 with the Bernina 10 D edgefoot. Wouldn't you have to do that? Thanks.

Here’s the link where the Edge foot was discussed. https://thequiltshow.com/forum/bom-2021-color-my-world/9453-edgestitch-foot-thanks

Hope it helps.

Marti

[juliefugate]

I love this! What a great way to make it yours...

[Pam M.]

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Here are all my little houses lined up for the photo. I have had a ball doing these and using the freezer paper method. What fun!