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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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.
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.
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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