Recover, Renovate

[Iminei]

Apropos of nothing at all, except I dont know where to post this tho' it could be classed as a Quilting Accessory



I finally recovered my ironing pad thingmy which was looking very sad after a couple of months of intensive hot irons and applique work ... using bondaweb which always always seeps through the paper onto the iron and pad.
It had become impossible to use without gunking up the iron so the time was nigh!

So easy to do I wish I had done it months ago ... Thankfully my HeatnBond supplies have been replenished so gunk free applique from here on in ...

[Ploshkin]

How is your ironing pad thinning constructed?  Did you make it yourself?  I've often thought it would be useful to have one on the flap of my machine cabinet.  When I'm piecing I'm backwards and forwards to the ironing board like a pendulum on speed.

[rubywishes]

@Ploshkin I scrounged a small piece of board from Mr.Rubys' garage and wrapped it in batting and a layer of heavy fabric. I used a staple gun to fix it all down. It's just the right size to sit on the side of my cabinet and now with my mini clover iron I can sew, swivel and iron to my hearts content.

[b15erk]

Nothing nicer than a nice fresh ironing cover - apart from a freshly changed bed!

@Ploshkin , I made my ironing pad from the cover on a lever arch file.  You can buy ironing felt at the Pound shop, and I wrapped it tightly a couple of times.  My cover though, is made on the principle of a pillowcase, so that I can change it easily.

Jessie

[Iminei]

I'm afraid I bought this from a lady on the market a couple of years or four ago .... in fact in June 2015!!!



It was nice and cheap, had a small cutting mat measuring 19 x 28 cm (yes metric!) which is very useful for trimming small blocks on the other side, which has since come off and is very thin and hard ... which is what I need at times rather than a regular ironing boards squishiness ..



I still see the lady and her wares at the local craft market every month.

I'm going to glue some felt on the base to protect surfaces, (Tho' to be honest the dining room table has had it now, too many years of quilting, layering, pinning    )

[Kenora]

@Ploshkin - I did the same as @rubywishes - covered a board with thin-ish wadding and a cotton cover stapled to the back. The wadding should be much thinner than an ironing board if it's going to be used for p&q - you get much better points that way.

[Ploshkin]

Thanks folks.  I have oodles of waddling, boards various and a staple gun so no excuses.

[Lowena]

I just use a folded towel on top of a cupboard

[BrendaP]

Mine's just a piece of board (can't remember where I scrounged it from) wrapped in wadding and covered with a piece of old sheet.  It's a bit bigger than Imi's, about 35cm x 45cm.  When it gets too mucky/gunked up it's just a case of stapling a new top layer on and then sewing a backing piece on to cover up the staples.

[RJR_38]

Apropos of nothing at all, except I dont know where to post this tho' it could be classed as a Quilting Accessory



I finally recovered my ironing pad thingmy which was looking very sad after a couple of months of intensive hot irons and applique work ... using bondaweb which always always seeps through the paper onto the iron and pad.
It had become impossible to use without gunking up the iron so the time was nigh!

So easy to do I wish I had done it months ago ... Thankfully my HeatnBond supplies have been replenished so gunk free applique from here on in ...

Get a fusamat for applique - mine is about A3 size. Honestly it will change your applique forever and you will,wonder how you ever managed.before it -.it is amazing.

[supergran]

I do the same as Lowena. It works for me as I've very little space left for storing any more stuff!

What's a fusamat???

[Lilian]

Is a fusamat the thing I saw on Sewing Quarter like a silicon layer with a blue border, nothing sticks to it? 

[Lilian]

fusamat 

[RJR_38]

@supergran @Lilian

That is exactly it. You can get it more cheaply than that if you wait for offers (I bought mine when Sewing Quarter did one of their 20% off days). You can literally iron your bondawebbed pieces onto the mat - they don’t stick and the glue stays on the piece - scientific magic haha.

I use mine by putting the layout diagram under my mat (it is clear) and fusing all my pieces down as if my mat is my background fabric - this allows you to do all the overlaps etc. If you do a piece in the wrong order, no problem as they peel off the mat. Once you have done all of those you can lift the entire piece off in one go and fuse it to your background fabric as normal.

I don’t do any appliqué blocks bigger than A3 so that mat is plenty big enough for me but I know they do much larger ones as well.

[Iminei]

I was reading the blurb with interest, thinking developed silicone paper until I got to the price ....


        

HOW much ?????