Miracle of Pattern Transfer! Home, Sweet Home Stitch-Along #3

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In today’s lesson we are making the background or foundation layer for the Home, Sweet Home design.

And you’ll learn about the miracle of pattern transfer to a fused fabric. How exciting! 

Just as a reminder, both parchment (baking) paper and silicone release paper (paper you removed from your fused fabrics) can be used to assemble the quilt top and for pattern transfer. Be sure to peel the paper off all your fused fabrics before starting Step #4. 
 
(Note that directions are first given here on the Artfabrik blog and then added to the Home, Sweet Home Tutorial page as we go.)
 
Step #4
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  • Trim 1/4″ from the long edge of the bottom background fabric.
  • Use a pinking blade in your rotary cutter or pinking shears. (See: How to Load Decorative Blades onto Your Rotary Cutter.)
  • If you don’t have a decorative cutter, just make sure the edge is trimmed neatly without any fraying of the fabric.
 Step #5
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  • Place parchment paper or silicone release paper on the ironing board. The paper should measure about 13″ x 13″ or larger. You can overlap sheets of paper to make the 13″ square. It’s important to have the paper underneath the fabrics before fusing or the fabric will fused or glue to your ironing board.
  • You can also use a Teflon ironing sheet as seen in this photo.
  • Place the top background fabric horizontally on the paper.
  • Overlap the pinked edge of the bottom background fabric 1/4″ onto the bottom edge of the top background fabric.

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  • Cover the fabrics with another piece of silicone release paper and fuse-tack into place with a hot dry iron. Cover the fabric to keep it clean. Irons are filthy things.
  • This is important: Remember, fusible web is a heat activated glue. Too much heat applied repeatedly for too long burns the glue into the fabric. Over-fusing changes the fabric color, makes the fabric stiff, makes it difficult to stitch, and the fabric will no long adhere to other fabrics.
  • Fuse-tacking or exposing the glue to only 5 seconds of heat at a time is best. Once the composition is complete you will steam set the fabric to batting for 10 seconds bonding everything into place.
 
Step #6
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  • Click here to download and print out the Home Sweet Home pattern as a Word document. Or click here to download and print out the Home Sweet Home pattern as a PDF.
  • Place silicone release paper or parchment paper on the sky pattern.
  • Trace the pattern shape with a black Sharpie marker or a lead pencil.
  • Do not write or add numbers inside the shape or the writing will transfer too.

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  • Place the marker or drawn side of the release paper onto the glue or fused side of the fabric.

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  • Iron the paper in place for 5 seconds with a hot iron.

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  • After the fabric cools, remove the paper from the fabric.
  • The ink from the tracing will transfer to the glue. The fabric shape will also face the same direction as the pattern shape was drawn. No need to flip the shape.
  • It’s a miracle!

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  • Cut out the shape just inside the black line with a pinking blade or pinking shears.

Step #7

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  • Repeat the steps above to transfer the house, roof, door, grass, leaves, and tree top pattern shapes to their respective fabrics.