Sunday, 19 April 2015

Miniature Block of the Month April 2015 - The Quilt Room

Miniature Block of the Month March 2015 - The Quilt Room
Miniature Block of the Month April 2015 - The Quilt Room
We are a few weeks into April and I have only just remembered to do my Miniature Block of the Month, currently offered FREE by the Quilt Room.The blocks are turning out to be a collection of stars and on this occasion I merged some of the pieces to get a more satisfying shape.  I am still struggling with foundation piecing - I managed to cut all the pieces backwards and still had to unpick some .... I will keep trying.

Layout Paper - foundation paper alternative?
Layout Paper - foundation paper alternative?
So far I have been using regular A4 computer paper for my foundation paper, as I print out the patterns in my Electric Quilt software, but was struggling with its heavy  80gsm weight.  I went on a tour of the aisles at our local stationery store to see if there was an alternative I could put through a printer.  The best I could find was layout paper which is slightly lighter at 50gsm.  This works fine through the inkjet printer, but was not so happy in the laser printer.  Have you found any alternatives?

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2 comments:

  1. Marly19 April 2015 at 21:02

    I have copied the patterns as you did, and sewn them through the paper, but you're right, the paper is too heavy and doesn't do the needle any good. An alternative I recently used was to print onto the 80 gram paper and then trace it onto dressmakers' pattern paper which is considerably thinner and tears away easily afterwards. It does add a stage to the process, but doesn't take much longer.

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  2. Annie21 April 2015 at 13:39

    I've had some success with bank paper. It's a similar weight to layout paper but cheaper ( available on eBay last time I looked.) I've also used parchment paper ( used for parchment craft) although I found that' it slips in our current inkjet printer .

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