I was recently at a quilt show and I found this great pattern. The pattern actually was a sunflower. And with all this writing. Now I kind of just assumed that that writing was gonna be already on my project, but it wasn't. So I decided that we had to have a new technique. And as I was reading the pattern directions which I tend not to do, I saw that she came up with the same technique I did. So it obviously is the right technique to use this to transfer that writing. I used, I went to my sowing box and found some tulle and tulle is most commonly used for like wedding dresses and formal gowns. In the quilting community we use it for a lot of our fiber arts where we'll lay it over after we've got our fiber down. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to tape it. I've already taped the pattern down to the table and I'm just going to tape this over, on top of it. Now we know that the tulle is a little bit stretchy. We don't want it to stretch because we don't want it to distort. So I'm just going to tape it down to make sure it stays in place. And if I need more tape, I'll certainly use it because we need to make sure that it's very stable. And I think I will use a little bit more tape around the edges. Now I also have brought along some sharpies and a couple of marking tools. The sharpies I'm going to use to go over outlining the words that are on this. One last piece down here, there we go. Now I'm gonna be careful what I use. This one is pretty fine. I think I wanted have something that's a little bit thicker because I wanna be able to see it. So what I'm gonna do is I am literally going to go over the letters. So essentially all I'm doing is I am making the writing on my pattern a little bit bolder and I'm leaving the sharpie will be showing through on the tulle. Now it's not gonna show through very vividly, but enough that I will be able to move it to the next project that I need. The nice thing about this too, is once it's done I'll be able to reuse it. It's not like a one-time deal. I'll be able to keep reusing the same, same piece of tulle. So essentially I have a new pattern and you'd wanna make be careful that you copy it exactly the way it is. One thing that I always like to do is I like to make little tails, like on my h's. So I might bring it down a little bit more, just like that. And then the sun, I think I'm gonna bring it over just a little bit more. I just brought it over smidge. And you wanna finish this entire piece before you take it off because if you take it off, you may not be able to get it back in line the way that you need it. Now of course, I'm not gonna do the whole entire thing. I'm just gonna do a couple lines And then I'll show you how to transfer it. If you notice the writing on this some of the e's are a little bit different. It's not perfect. And that's okay. It's actually probably pretty nice that it's not so perfect because what that enables you to do is make it your own. You don't have to be perfect when you're transferring it. There are a few other, few other supplies that you could probably use. One of the, a flare pen probably would be just as handy. If you wanted to use that. I use the permanent marker because I want I thought maybe that that would be the thing the sharpie would give it enough show on this tulle. So I wouldn't have problems seeing it and visualizing it. Okay. So I'm at the end of one of the sentences and that's when I am going to stop and remove it and we're gonna move it onto fabric. I'm gonna keep the tape because I still have to tape it down. I don't want it to shift while I'm trying to put it onto the fabric. Now, when I put it on the fabric I'm not gonna use the sharpie. And the reason that I'm not is because I don't want to show through in case I use a light thread and the type of thread that I'm gonna be using is pearl cotton embroidery. I'm probably gonna use a number five when I finally do do it. So you're gonna want to make sure that it's a very faint vision or view on your fabric when you transfer it, you don't want it to be just in your face. All right. So I'll move this away. Take this off. So okay to leave this tape on your pattern piece, because if you're gonna retape it, then you have your places to retape it. Just fold it over to the back. It's not gonna hurt your pattern piece at all. And actually it's nice because that way you do have a place that is that you see where you can retape it at a later date if you wanna make more, or if your friend decides they wanna make one. I always make sure you fold it up and put it back where you got it from. So that way you haven't misplaced it. Now, I don't know if you can see this. Oh, I see that I lost the e in the sun. So I am going to try to get that e. Here we go. I don't know how I missed that but we all know that's what happens when we're creating. So I'm going to put it on this. Now I brought a couple of different pencils along. I have a pencil and I have chalk. The chalk I'm gonna use on this deeper red that's behind it but I wanted you to be able to see this. I wanna make sure that it is level. So let's take this. And do you see how you can hardly see where the tulle is? That's one of the reasons that we wanna make sure that we tape it down so we don't move it. I'm having a really hard time finding the bottom, oop there, it's all the way down there. Okay. I'll take the sides up. This is a neat technique because so often we really struggle and then we try to write it ourselves. This way you're gonna do it exactly as the pattern calls for and you're gonna be able to utilize. There it is. It blends so well with this fabric. All right. So now I've got it here in place. And this is actually an appliqué piece. What I did was I actually had done the appliqué and then put it in. And because this piece had lines in it already I shifted the line. So that way I shifted the pattern. So that way each line would have its own saying. But on this, there isn't a line. So I'm just gonna be very cautious that I don't stretch it in any way. And I'm just going to hold it with my hands wide open. And I'm just gonna write with a pencil. It's always good to have a little eraser on hand in case you need one. And I think you're gonna see some of these e's don't really finish. I'm gonna finish them off a little bit more. So this is another time when you can change up that pattern just the littlest bit. And I think I want that n down a little bit. There are lots of really great books on the market for doing embroidery to help with the stitches, the stitches don't you just don't have to do a chain stitch. There's so many different stitches that you can utilize when you're doing letters. And I want you to go and explore some of those venues. See it's pretty simple. It's very easy to follow. And this could, you don't even really probably need to do the appliqué if you didn't want to. The saying in itself is so wonderful that you could just write the saying on it and then give it as a gift. You could frame it and give it as a gift. This actually is one of those dish towels. So I could incorporate the dish towel itself and just cut this piece up and put it into a quilt or I could make a wall hanging out of it and do some blocks around it. So don't let your creativity shine as you're doing these. Okay. So I'm all done. I'm gonna take this off and save the masking tape because I've got to try it on the darker pieces. Let's see how slick and easy that is. So there I've got my pattern already on here and this is going to be covered up just fine. When, if I decide to wash this piece after it's embroidered anything that's not taken are not covered. And I guarantee if you're doing it the right way, these writing is going to be covered. We'll wash out. I'm gonna set this aside. Now I'm not sure what color will work best on this. So I'm actually gonna try a couple of different. Do you see how you can see it so much better than even the light fabric? How much better you can see it on this darker fabric? I could see the tulle. I could see the writing. So this is gonna be really neat. I'll be able to tell almost right away what works as far as the pencil or the chalk. So I'm gonna try the chalk first and see how that works. The nice thing about the chalk is that'll just wash right out as well, but it'll stay on as long as I need it to just like the pencil. And I'm gonna do a one line in the chalk and the last two lines in the pencil just so you have a comparison. And as I said, this works with any pattern that you want to use as long as you're willing to go and take the time to draw it out on the tulle. Now, I find that white tulle works best, but black tulle might work well if you use if you're using white chalk on top of it that's yet to be seen. If you wanna experiment that would be a good experiment to do. They also have the white marking pencils that we use in quilting, or they're sort of a gel pen. So I'm just about ready to take this off. And you know, I'm not pressing very hard. You don't have to press hard because you don't wanna damage the fibers. All right. That's a really important point not to damage the fibers. And let's take a quick look here. So I'm glad that I did do the pencil. It's a little bit harder to see the white chalk here. I think that I could probably still see it to be able to do the cross stitch on it. I'm glad that I did switch over to the pencil. So before you, you move forward with your project make sure you're using the correct tulle. So you're not straining your eyes any more than you need to. And I'm just gonna do a couple words here. Maybe I'll just do believe, I believe and see I'm not even gonna put it. I'm not even going to tape it down this time. I'm just gonna hold it. But I think that the chalk probably will be a good venue for this one, as far as being most efficient it's so dark. But again, you can experiment. Yes. See how nice that came out. That came out really well. And I not sure how well it would come out if it was in pencil again, we'll check and see. It's always good to have both on hand, gel pens would work great on something like this, especially the iridescent ones. Yeah you can't see the pencil at all. So this is a great tip for you to use. You need a little bit of tulle. You need some masking tape, you need a pen or a sharpie, flair pens are great as well, chalk pencil and you're set. So I hope that you enjoyed this tip and I hope it works for you.
Why wouldn’t you just use a light box?
Would Organza work the same as Tulle?
I'm new to sewing and quilting. I always wondered how quilts and other sewing projects had lettering like this. I do have an an embroidery sewing machine but am starting out on a regular Janome sewing machine to get used to sewing. I L❤️VE the quilt! I want to make one just like that or at least pretty close. I just saw tulle on sale at my local sewing store, didn't know what it was...now I know what it is used for 😆 and will be buying some. Very pleased with this video as well as the instructor. :0)
I can't get this video to play! It isn't my network. This is one I could really use because I'm just about to transfer a pattern to my quilt. And why do we have to watch commercials!
Should be able to fast forward, way to much time taping!
I really like this idea. It think I would use framing mat board and tape my tulle to it first. That would let me easily move it from tracing to project without the worry of stretching the tulle each time I removed the tape. It would be like a printing screen.
Didn't need to spend that much time showing us how to tape down tulle. It should have been prepared ahead of time.