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Project Overview

A crazy-patchwork, "paper-pieced" block, from the book, Sulky Secrets to Successful Stabilizing #900B-11, using Sulky Super Solvy.

Suzy shows us how to use Sulky Super Solvy to make a "paper-pieced" crazy-patchwork pattern that is fun, quick and easy, with no paper to tear away when the block is done. Since this book was published, we have also introduced Sulky Paper Solvy, which can be used when you want one or many patterns for paper piecing. Paper Solvy can be run through an inkjet printer and dissolves quickly away in warm water.

About the Artist

Supplies

  • Sulky Super Solvy Stabilizer
  • Quilting Thread
  • Extra-fine, Permanent-Ink Black Marker or Iron-On Transfer Pen
  • Fabric Scraps
  • Sulky KK 2000 Temp. Spray Adhesive

Instructions

  1. Spray Sulky KK 2000 onto Super Solvy, then lay another layer on top of it, or iron 2 layers of Super Solvy together using no steam and a press cloth.

    Then choose one of the three following tracing methods:

    1. Spray your chosen design with KK 2000. Place the 2 layers of Super Solvy over the design and trace it with an extra-fine, permanent ink marker. The KK 2000 holds it in place.
    2. For quick multiples, trace the design once onto a plain piece of paper using a Sulky Iron-on Transfer Pen, then heat transfer it onto the Super Solvy.
    3. Use a rubber stamp paper-piecing design to make multiples of your design. Test the stamp pad ink to be sure it will not bleed into your fabric.
  2. Starting with #1, spray the wrong side of the chosen fabric with KK 2000. Begin piecing as you would with paper, placing the right side of the #2 fabric to the right side of the #1 piece as indicated on the pattern. Press as you go with a DRY iron. (If your iron does not have a non-stick surface, use a press cloth.)
  3. Trim away the excess fabric and Super Solvy 1/4" from the outside stitching lines (along the dotted line on the pattern); save Solvy scraps to start delicate seams or small projects (see below). Using Super Solvy instead of paper is so much faster and easier because you avoid the tedious and time-consuming tearing and picking out of paper; you can actually leave the Super Solvy underneath until it is seamed in. You don't have to remove it until later with the first washing. Or, you can press the Super Solvy with a dry iron until it is brittle and it eill pull away easily.

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