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Using Dryer Sheets When Quilting

When quilting with thin, flimsy fabrics, use "used" fabric softener sheets as an inexpensive backing. It gives it body and makes it a whole lot easier to work with.

By Susan

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April 11, 20050 found this helpful

You can up with an answer to something I think about everytime I take a used dryersheet out of the dryer! Sometimes when I have left the sheets in the dryer for a few more dryings I find they are a lot softer. I have an empty tissue box on the counter by the dryer that I stuff the used dryer sheets in, so I already have lots.

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Do you think they would work as the paper in paperpiecing quilts, and ommit the paper, but just leave the sheet there and not tear it off, as I'm sure it won't tear vary easy? trashcrafter

 
By Adrienne (Guest Post)
July 13, 20050 found this helpful

Show me how to attache those thin strips to used dryer sheets to make a block. When four finished blocks are sewn together it forms a design.

 
By Cindy (Guest Post)
May 14, 20080 found this helpful

I use these for Applique. They're cheaper than using fusible web and help to recycle at the same time. I draw the Image on the back(wrong side) of the fabric.
I place my fabric on the dryer sheet (wrong side of fabric facing in) and sew along the Image line. Trim down to about an 1/8th of an Inch all around the applique,then making a small slit in the dryer sheet,turn your design right side out.

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Then press and place & pin on your quilt block.I call It the Eleanor Burns Way. She uses this technique for most all of her applique projects. Besides once It's quilted no one can tell the difference.
You can use decorative stitching to sew your applique down or stitch by hand. A simple zig-zag works just fine.

 
 

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