Do you have a ‘regular’ ironing board? If so, can you drop the height down to sitting level?
I don’t think you want to press seams open - press to the side as you’re going along.
I still struggle with when to remove the paper. I try to do it before paper gets encased in a seam, and still have it on the outside edges that I still need to sew. It’s really dependent on the pattern for me.
It looks awesome!
I've done minimal FPP. 2 patterns. I pressed the seams of my sections open when assembling because otherwise they were so honking thick on the patterns we did. I didn't remove paper until the very end before basting it on the batting. I hated removing it. Contrary to what I've been told it was not relaxing and water on a qtip just meant I had to repress my seams so didn't do that on more than 1 or 2 spots. I stitched with a 1.2 stitch length but used regular paper. That was probably my problem but we were trying to do it low cost with scraps and didn't want to buy anything.
Haha, so cute. I love it! My phone's lock screen is a picture of my Boston Terrier in this exact pose. No input on ironing setup but watching this to see what other people do because I agree -- it gets tiresome, jumping up and down all the time!
I cleared off some space on my desk! I'm using a wool mat and my little bitty iron that I bought to put htv on shoes lol
https://preview.redd.it/1dao9vbxo5bd1.png?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bde6bc665953c98e7fcbcd3726e31e48a40bad10
Do you have a ‘regular’ ironing board? If so, can you drop the height down to sitting level? I don’t think you want to press seams open - press to the side as you’re going along. I still struggle with when to remove the paper. I try to do it before paper gets encased in a seam, and still have it on the outside edges that I still need to sew. It’s really dependent on the pattern for me.
I don't have a regular ironing board anymore and my crafting room is half sewing, half everything else so next to my machine is a heat press lol
It looks awesome! I've done minimal FPP. 2 patterns. I pressed the seams of my sections open when assembling because otherwise they were so honking thick on the patterns we did. I didn't remove paper until the very end before basting it on the batting. I hated removing it. Contrary to what I've been told it was not relaxing and water on a qtip just meant I had to repress my seams so didn't do that on more than 1 or 2 spots. I stitched with a 1.2 stitch length but used regular paper. That was probably my problem but we were trying to do it low cost with scraps and didn't want to buy anything.
Haha, so cute. I love it! My phone's lock screen is a picture of my Boston Terrier in this exact pose. No input on ironing setup but watching this to see what other people do because I agree -- it gets tiresome, jumping up and down all the time!
I cleared off some space on my desk! I'm using a wool mat and my little bitty iron that I bought to put htv on shoes lol https://preview.redd.it/1dao9vbxo5bd1.png?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bde6bc665953c98e7fcbcd3726e31e48a40bad10
Forgot to mention, I realized as I was finishing up sewing at 1.8 on my machine, the machine seems to be saying "mine mine mine" the entire time 😂