Sharon Schamber's Video for Designing Quilting

[Nancy R.]

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

[Dawn S.]

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. :roll:

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

[Margo C.]

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:

[Rita C.]

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. :roll:

[Dawn S.]

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

[Constance G.]

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! :roll:

[Dawn S.]

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

[Constance G.]

Good luck, Dawn!

[Paula D.]

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

[Margo C.]

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

[Rita C.]

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? :lol: I think it's going to be beautiful because your design is really beautiful. Good luck, and may the force be with you.

[Paula D.]

Yeah Margo. I kinda knew that, LOL

[Renata L.]

This is what John Anderson said on 3 April when someone asked about getting questions to Sharon Schamber:

We have licensed the DVDs from Sharon but have no agreement that she would be personally involved. However, if we could get a few questions together to submit to her, I will be glad to contact her or her daughter and see if she has some time to respond. Put your questions in this area and I will ask Margo to consolidate them. Then I will send them on to Sharon.

When he said "Put your questions in this area..." he was referring to the topic at http://forum/the-classrooms-discussi...schamber-video

Hope this helps.

[Sue R.]

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

[Dawn S.]

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

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