Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero - Printing On Fabric Lessons

[Jeanie S.]

Mary Kay, what brand of fabric are you using? If you treated your own with Bubble Jet Set, what did you use for the backing?

[Mary K.]

I'm using Printed Treasures Inkjet Printable fabric.

[Margo C.]

Mary Kay, I don't know about the photo paper, but I have found that using a straight pin to catch just the corner of the fabric will easily separate it from freezer paper when I'm doing appliqué. (Look ma! No nails!) Maybe it will work for the photo paper?
As for the stuck paper, maybe a hot iron would loosen it? I can't remember where I saw it, but recently on the forum someone suggested that you use a hot iron and aluminum foil to remove adhesive stuck on fabric from fusible web. Might be worth a try?

[Jeanie S.]

Another way to loosen the fabric is to make a "tear" near a corner. The paper backing will tear, but the fabric won't - and it's easier to get the fabric off that way.

As for removing the adhesive... I haven't used Printed Treasures for a while, but I seem to remember that it uses an adhesive backing paper. I once left an adhesive name tag on a favorite shirt and threw it in the washer/dryer. The paper part of the label came off, but the adhesive was pretty well stuck to the fabric. I remember using another label to press up and down on the sticky area (many, many times) and the adhesive came off the the fabric and stuck to the label bit by bit. The thing is, I'm pretty sure that I added either heat (iron with baking parchment over the sticky area) or cold (threw the shirt in the freezer). I just can't remember which one worked! Seems like heat would make the adhesive more gummy, but I'm not sure if that would make things better or worse. Cold would make the adhesive less gummy. I think that maybe I would try the freezer first and if that doesn't work, then try heat.

[Mary K.]

I finished my project. Woo Hoo! I ended up rinsing the fabric/paper and scraping it off while it was wet. Didn't get all of it, but for this pillow I wasn't too worried.

[Margo C.]

CUTE!!!!

[Mary K.]

Thank you! I forgot to give my dog credit. His name is Shade and he knows how to SIT (but that's about all).

[Jeanie S.]

Woo hoo! Looks GREAT Mary Kay!! (I tried to leave a comment in the gallery, but I'm getting an error whenever I try to leave comments there. )

[Mary K.]

FYI Jeanie - I posted a message about the error you are getting in the gallery.

[Mary K.]

I saw this quilt http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruthslo...shmodernquilts today and thought that it would be a great pattern with lots of blank spaces for displaying photos. Although this quilt looks complex, it is actually very easy to make using strip piecing.

On my profile, there is a photo of a group slice quilt of a barn scene that I made. My slice (center on bottom) was made using white fabric treated with BubbleJet and printed using my HP DeskJet printer. The slice just to the right of mine is a watercolor painting by the artist who painted the original barn scene used for this slice quilt.

Since my slice was larger than 8.5" x 11", I had to print my image slice in two parts and seam the parts together. Also, I had to seam my piece to the slices prepared by the other quilters. To avoid white spaces near the seams, I stretched just the edges of the scanned image by copying about a half inch from each edge and repeating it. I did not want to enlarge/distort the entire image. My seams were 1/2" to allow some wiggle room to match the surrounding slices.

[Margo C.]

Nancy, I LOVE that project, and the name of your group is wonderful!!! Thanks so much for sharing that here!

[Margo C.]

Nancy, I LOVE that project, and the name of your group is wonderful!!! Thanks so much for sharing that here!

Thanks Margo! It was a fun, but challenging project. I had to learn a lot of what Jeanie is teaching the hard way--trial and error.

[Jeanie S.]

Love the barn quilt Nancy! Good work figuring out how to extend the edges.

[Jeanie S.]

I finished my pillow. I used EQ Printable cotton satin fabric sheets, and since my copy of Photoshop Elements only arrived today, I did the photo adjusting using Paint Shop Pro V. 7 and Irfanview (a free program that allows for a lot of photo adjustments.) The fabrics are some that I used in my "Stars for a New Day" quilt, which I keep on my bed, so this pillow will now join the other pillows on that bed! The cat, Gray Soufflé fits right in, since she's usually there, anyway!

[Margo C.]

Cute Carole! And it looks like Gray Soufflé is a great quilt inspector too!!