It appears that I confused at least one person with my dandelion thread drawing post and the mention of Press’n Seal.
Press’n Seal is a plastic wrap product that is readily available on supermarket shelves in the United States and online in Australia. In my dandelion piece, I followed these steps:
- created a simplified black and white line drawing from an enlarged photo (I am way too artistically challenged to, gasp, do the drawing myself);
- traced the line drawing onto a square of Press’n Seal with a fine tipped permanent marker;
- stuck the Press’n Seal onto the top of my prepared fabric sandwich – the product is mostly see-through which allowed me to easily position the drawing over the light area of my hand dyed fabric; and
- used the marked outline as a guide for my the main flower of my thread drawing/quilting before ripping out the Press’n Seal.
If you don’t have access to the plastic wrap, you can do the same kind of thing with tissue paper. (I know that other quiltmakers use Press’n Seal for marking their traditional quilting designs. Personally, I prefer no-mark free-motion quilting motifs as my quilting lines are much too wobbly and I could not be bothered playing with the plastic wrap or tissue paper over a large area.)
So, when you look at the last photo on my previous post, what you see is my B&W drawing in the bottom corner and, above it, is my thread drawing with the Press’n Seal still in place.