{"id":3529,"date":"2009-11-18T06:49:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T13:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2016-06-16T19:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T02:55:16","slug":"using-oilcloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/using-oilcloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Oilcloth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of you have probably heard about oilcloth recently.\u00a0 Anna Maria Horner has some as does Michael Miller and many other designers. While on my week away, I bought some dotted oilcloth designed\/produced by Michael Miller from the Quilting Loft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a very strong garment sewing background and part of my tote bag adventure is learning to construct 3D objects. As a result, I have never used anything like oilcloth before, except for the tablecloth vinyl. Some issues I ran into were:<\/p>\n

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  1. What scissors to use: if used my good sewing scissors, would the oilcloth dull the blades?<\/li>\n
  2. What foot do I use? Will I need the roller foot?<\/li>\n
  3. The directions I found said press on low heat. What is low heat? Testing required, I suppose.<\/li>\n
  4. What thread should I use?<\/li>\n
  5. Will the oilcloth play nicely with the regular cotton?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    As I may have mentioned I have wanted to try the oilcloth after carrying the Julie Bag<\/a> around in the rain and trying to keep my stuff from getting soaked. The bag is complete, as you can see and here is what I found.<\/p>\n

    I used my medium scissors – not my good Ginghers, but not paper scissors either. They still seem sharp.<\/p>\n

    Using a regular foot was fine. The machine had no problems feeding the oilcloth.<\/p>\n

    Pressing the oilcloth was not an option. I used the very lowest setting on my iron and the oilcloth just curled up. After I found that out, I just finger pressed. Not as good as a nice crisp seam, but it worked. When I put the floor into the bag, I pressed from the lining side.<\/p>\n

    I used regular Aurifil thread and had no issues<\/p>\n

    The cotton and the oilcloth were nice to each other. The oilcloth was not too slippery. I think I sewed mostly with the flannel-ish side against the bed of the machine, which probably helped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Most of you have probably heard about oilcloth recently.\u00a0 Anna Maria Horner has some as does Michael Miller and many other designers. While on my week away, I bought some dotted oilcloth designed\/produced by Michael Miller from the Quilting Loft. I don’t have a very strong garment sewing background and part of my tote bag … Continue reading “Using Oilcloth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[352,315,353,66],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-construction","tag-fabric","tag-process","tag-tote-bags"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}