Do we have a quilting pounce?

I’m getting ready to finish off a quilt and I just learned about quilting pounces. I can always buy one for myself, but I figured if DMS already had one I could try it out and decide if I liked it or not buying it.

99% sure that’s a No, unless someone has added it to sewing cabinet more recently than last time I was looking for pouncing a few months ago. Definitely not in the fiberarts cabinet (I was wanting for embroidery pattern transfer but it wasn’t either cabinet)

@Kriskat30 or @dryad2b might know for sure

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Ok, thanks. Its only like a $10-$15 purchase for myself. I just hate buying things that I’m not sure I’ll like using.

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Might see if someone in hive-mind has a bit you could borrow/try

(I’d be happy to but that project is backburnered so I never bought any).

@Cairenn_Day do you know if Sue has and if so, some to share?

Sue’s not much on sewing type things. I know she embroiders, but that’s about it.

Yeah but pounce is a traditional way of transferring embroidery patterns (then you make lines more permanent via paint etc)

When are you going to be there? I’ll loan you mine.

I have poor success with it. I can’t see the chalk very well on most colors of fabric and the powder just rubs off before I can get to quilting that particular section.

Maybe the holes in my “pattern” are just too small to transfer the chalk well …

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Thursday night, probably. I could also come any time this weekend that’s good for you. Thanks!

I had one some years ago but no idea where it went

Sorry I was slow to answer I was out of town in St Louis atteneding my Mothier in Laws Memorial and
internment

A storm while we were at dinner on Sat messed up my laptop

Home now

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No problem! Chris Marlow is going to let me borrow hers, so I’m all set.

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Marking is the bane of quilter’s lives! 'Nuf said.

I have a quilt top/back that is ready to start quilting. The colors are dark enough that chalk ought to show. I always design my own stitching patterns so purchased stencils aren’t an option. Typically after I design my stitching I will print it to paper, pin that template to multiple layers of wax paper, perforate the wax paper by FMQ’ing without thread, and then use the wax paper as a quilting pattern. Typically I pin on the wax paper, freehand quilt through it and then tear out all the tiny little shreds of wax paper. It’s a nuisance to remove the wax paper - easy on large sections but a nightmare on tiny pieces. But the benefits are that it gives perfect locations and you can see through the wax paper for alignment when pinning.

Here is an example of a “wax-paper marked” quilt after I quilted it (done freehand on my domestic machine).

But … even using a 90wt needle, the holes in the waxed paper are barely suitable for pouncing. And in this case the fabric was too busy to see chalk anyway.

However - you have me thinking. With some design effort, I could make my own “stencils” on the laser cutter (possibly using wax paper) and then pounce them. You can only pounce a small area at a time because the chalk rubs off before you can get it all quilted, but this might still be a viable option.

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The online tutorials I saw mentioned that you can use hairspray on the chalk to make it stay longer, which is what I was going to try.

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I am very interested to hear the results of this. Please let me know how this goes. If the chalk rubs off it’s a nightmare to realign the template and try to re-chalk it so I hope this works.

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Will do! With the arthritis in my hands, marking is a bit of a nightmare. As this is the largest quilt I’ve attempted, I was looking for shortcuts when I found the pounce concept.

I want someone to make a “marking table”. It would have a projector under a light table. I would put the quilt top on the light table, project my computer design onto it from the back (through it, actually it), and then mark the design.

Of course then I’d still have to find a good marking pen/pencil, but that’s probably solvable.

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That would be great!

What’s the verdict? How’s the hairspray idea working?

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Unfortunately I ran into an issue creating my stencil with the silhouette (it really didn’t like the mylar I was trying to use) and so I’ve had to regroup and thus haven’t gotten to use the pounce yet. I’m probably just going to do a stipple pattern now. I’ll try to get to that this week. Do you need it back soon?

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No, I just wondered whether the hairspray worked.

I never thought about using sticky vinyl as the stencil. That’s an interesting idea … I was thinking about laser cutting a stencil from freezer paper and ironing it on.

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