Also try to avoid placing the iron on the sticky side of the freezer paper template. Steam may cause the distortion of the sewn piece. IroningĪlways press with hot iron set for cotton WITHOUT steam. We used 2,0 stitch length, the one normally used for piecing. When you use foundation paper piecing you need to decrease the stitch length, but for freezer paper piecing you DO NOT need to do it as we are not going to stitch through the paper. It has 7 units (from 1 to 7), and the first one (1) is the hexagon shape. The pattern templates are mirrored, the lines you see on the paper are reversed to the final shape of the sewn block. For example, in our pattern the cutting templates are not mirrored (the arrows in the picture below show the same sides of the polygon), so to cut the fabric you have to place the templates on the RIGHT side of the fabric. You need to pay attention to orientation of your pattern template and cutting templates to see if they are mirrored to cut the fabric correctly. In the text I refer to the labels in the pattern. Since then we changed labelling to simplify and clarify the pattern. This tutorial was written when we had the first draft of the pattern. We use the term Polygon in the pattern to describe all of them. Leaves and Apples in the pattern are irregular polygons – two types of hexagons and a pentagon. We printed the templates on Printable freezer paper sheets. You can either print the templates on Printable Freezer paper sheets or print them on paper and trace onto Freezer paper from the roll. Either Printable Freezer paper sheets or Freezer paper roll.We haven´t created anything that difficult yet. I am not sure how it would work for complicated patterns that require precision and have too many pieces. ![]() Our pattern, made to use foundation paper piecing and specially designed to be made with freezer paper, is the Hexie Tree and very soon, on September 16, it will be available!īefore we start, I would like to mention that here we shall talk about rather simple designs. You don´t need to waste paper for templates and your time for tearing papers off. We am very pleased with the results and speed of the technique, especially on the final stage. Now I am working on a new pattern in collaboration with Irina from NordicCrafter and we are using an alternative paper piecing method using freezer paper. What comes to your mind when you think about foundation paper piecing? Maybe you think – No thank you, because I dread removing papers! When you make a quilts which were foundation paper pieced maube you think you would never do it again because tearing papers off was too time consuming and tedious.
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