Remember when I reported to you that Press'N Seal was the best thing since sliced bread if the quilting world was a sandwich! Well a new development is creating a Sticky situation leading to a potential Quilt World Black Market! read on!

  Presss'N'Seal is becoming very difficult to purchase ...try your local IGA or Supa Barn. I have been scouring the Food Wrap aisles where ever I go ......below is a copy of the insight and beauty of P'N'S...if you can still get it!

What is the best thing since sliced bread?......Talking of sandwiches, what do you wrap your sandwiches in? No doubt it is a Glad Wrap product or something similar. Well there is a new type of sandwich wrap out there and its worth every cent of $5.90 that you will pay for it, and its well worth the investment.

Please explain - It is called Press'N'Seal and it is a Glad Wrap product. It is a very thick form of average sandwich cling film with a sticky side so it sticks very firmly to plastic containers etc . The manufacturer recommends the stuff for wrapping meat for freezing and to cover table surfaces before kids craft activities etc. For the quilter it is excellent for tracing designs on to a quilt to do free motion quilting. Lets say your quilt calls for zebras to be "drawn" in stitching on to every second block.....ahhhh I can hear you cry. Easy with Press'N'Seal.

Find a suitable simple line drawing of a zebra from a colouring book or clip art from the internet (copyright free) .Establish a master copy for yourself, the right size,  ready to trace. Tear off a piece of P'N'S and stick down onto the master image. It will stick firmly while you trace with a texta/marker or pen,  but then peel off the paper easily, ready to stick in place on to your quilt block. As it is see thru, it is easy to trace thru and easy to stick in place on to the block with no pins and no residual goo. You can them stitch through the P'N'S tracing with your darning foot over the continuous line of stitching. After the job is done, peel away. The plastic film will rip away from either side of the stitch line like it is perferated...real easy. Unlike tracing paper, which can get quite stuck under close stitched spaces and be a bugger to pluck out with tweezers...I talk from experience here, the P'N'S will leave very few bits stuck under the stitching, but if it does, a quick iron will melt away the little traces of plastic and leave the perfect zebra stitched in place. Now having ripped away the P'N'S you are glad you still have your master copy to trace from again for the next block.