Insane sewing update

Wow, Kate, you accomplish so much!

Are you going to quilt the silver foil fabric in something like an all-over diagonal grid pattern (hanging diamonds)? If so, the adjustable spacing arm(s) on Bernina's walking foot will let you sew equally spaced successive lines after marking just the first one in each direction. I'd think tailor's chalk would work just fine for marking that first line...it probably would be sufficiently visible for the time you need it, and then brush away nicely.

Doreen in Alabama

Thanks. It doesn't seem like much coz they are all such tiny things! :)

I have a quilting bar or three for the Husqvarna, and the walking foot... I may not use that as it might mark the fabric. I'll experiment with both it and the rolling foot.

Past experience shows that tailors chalk doesn't stay on this fabric at all: it doesn't even mark it! I'm wondering is a soft ordinary lead pencil will do, or whether I shall have to resort to a fine biro or Pigma pen! Once quilted, no-one will see the lines from the stage! It's just I'd rather do a better job than that... And no, it won't be straight lines or diamonds: the original gauntlets look like molded plastic, rigid and shaped in sections. We're hoping it can be echoed... Not so sure about the spats/boots bits. Kylie's originals look like boots made of vinyl or leather.and the finish is quite flat, so we may try to get away without any real quilting.

Whatever, it looks like it'll be fun!

In that case, I likely would mark the design on tissue paper, sew through the tissue and then tear it away.

Doreen in Alabama

Woah, I got dizzy just reading this! Has the dust settled yet? :-)

Good job!

-Irene

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Just about! Can't vacuum yet...

Thanks! There will be pix! :)

I've used the tape on quilts and fr marking other stuff, but I don't know if it'll take the silver off... I'll certainly try it! The lines are not to be straight, but it will work OK for gentle curves.

Kate Dicey wrote: > Need to go ask the quilty folk what to mark silver foil fabric for

Hi Kate,

If you're quilting straight lines, can you use masking tape on the fabric? Or painter's tape; it doesn't stick quite as much and so removes more easily. You can get the tape in many different widths, so for straight lines you would just get tape in the width you want, lay one strip out on your first line, then sew right at the edge of the tape on each side. Pull the tape off, move one edge to your most recently sewn line, and stitch along the edge of the tape again. The only problem might be that I don't know much about the foil fabric--would it be damaged by the tape? I know that this works well on quilting cotton, anyway! Good luck, it sound like you have too much fun!

Donna G. Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Press-n-seal, tearaway or washaway stabilizer, marking and quilting from the back? Any of those sound possible?

I'm not quilty, but I do work with odd fabrics.

My thought - mark the BACK side and sew upside-down.

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Marking and quilting from the back is a terrific idea.

Doreen in Alabama

Yes! (I mustn't be as quilty as I oughta be, since this solution didn't occur to me.)

Doreen in Alabama

I'm experimenting with the P&S and tearaway this am. With quilting from the back, I'm concerned about the feed teeth marking the fabric, and thinking about putting tissue between them and the silver stuff...

All the banging and thumping has got to me and I'm recovering from a threatened migraine, so speak softly and say everything twice! ;)

That will be one of my experiments...

If so, re-positionable correction tape might do the job. And the one-line width will bend a tad.

(I never noticed a difference between drafting tape and masking tape. But I never used either on fabric. Both will attach permanently if left on anything too long, but correction tape seems to keep its glue to itself.)

In any case, I'd guide the edge of the foot on the edge of the tape -- another post in this thread could be read as suggesting that one side of the foot glide over the tape, which would mash it into the fiber.

Joy Beeson