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| Farmer Judy |
Posted - Mar 22 2012 : 10:02:14 PM
My daughter is wonderful doing embroidery. We are having a problem re-using images, last time she taped to a window to trace. Does anyone have a better way?
God bless,
Judy
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| pinkroses |
Posted - Mar 24 2012 : 11:41:14 AM
Finally found my light box packed in the basement; we have been in our newly built farm house 2 years now .
any ways
I have found you can you those quilting pencils from fons and porter too .
just trace of the design and iron them on
also
they have 2 pencils and a pencil sharpener made for those pencils in a package together for around $9.00 , the pencil sharpener really works ; and it also works on those transfer marking pencils
a while ago , I had a hard problem with the Aunt Martha hot transfers.
and they were new !
I tried every thing and finally found these to work
one suggestion in one of my embroidery books was to use a piece of reyondals wrap
you put the wrap over the embroidery desgin and iron.
it is suppose to transfer better and darker. I haven't tried it yet ; but it does make sense . hugs sheila
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Mar 23 2012 : 07:58:59 AM
I prefer to use a lightbox, like Grace does, with the blue transfer pen that washes out with a quick rinse. The lightbox works well as you can have your project laying down and it's doesn't slip around.
And, that means the pattern can be used over and over again as well.
CJ
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Mar 23 2012 : 07:27:11 AM
Yeah I like the transfer pencils, better then the pens. At first I was a bit intimidated by having to trace, worried I wouldn't be good at tracing, but it's easier then it seems, and goes pretty fast. The thinner the paper the easier it is to iron transfer, so I prefer tracing paper. The thicker the paper the longer and harder it is to iron transfer. So say copy/printer paper seems to be spotty in transfer and takes forever for me.
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| grace gerber |
Posted - Mar 23 2012 : 07:01:51 AM
There are several transfer pens and pencils out there that I have used since I was a little girl and that is some time now. You simple trace over the original pattern and then iron it on. Hope that helps.
I also use a light box for some transfering - it is like the window but you have it siting flat which makes the process so much easier.
Grace Gerber
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| Wauka Mountain Mama |
Posted - Mar 23 2012 : 04:05:26 AM
You can trace it onto tracing paper & then attach the tracing paper to the fabric with a running stitch. Then embroider through the fabric & paper. Once your done you just take out the running stitch & gently pull the tracing paper away from the fabric, using twizzers to get the small pieces left behind.
This works great on basic images but tracing paper is so thin it gets tricky when the lines are real close to each other.
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