I have been wanting to try printing on fabric with my printer. So I ironed some freezer paper onto some white cotton fabric in the in the size of a sheet of printer paper. I found a botanical image online and printed it out on paper to see how I liked it. I figured I could get 2 prints on one sheet. Only the first time I printed it on the fabric I forgot to rotate the image and I got 2 smaller images.
So I printed it out again for the larger image and then worked with both. For the smaller image I frayed the edge and found this iron on stuff in my stash. I had no idea if it would work because it was pretty darn old. But it did! I first ironed it on to the printed fabric, peeled off the backing paper and then ironed it onto the blue ticking. I used the solid white fabric for the back.
I pinned the front and back together inside out. The larger image got the blue ticking for the back.
Stitched around all 4 sides but left about a 2” opening on the bottom. Trim off the 4 corners but don’t cut your stitches. Turn them right side out. I used a wooden skewer to push out the corners.
I made a cone out of some junk mail so I could insert the lavender buds into the little bags.
Then I hand stitched the little opening closed. That’s it!
They came out pretty darn cute.
You have to decide on whether you want to use your printer with fabric. I didn’t have any problems. I used my rotary cutter to get a cleaner edge to minimize the frayed edges. I think I’ll be doing it again. I like the way the images comes out.
Have you printed on fabric before? The freezer paper made it really easy. I used freezer paper for another project too. I will show you that soon.
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