Jolie: Next, what I'd like to do is to show you how you can use fused plastic
and a sewing machine together.
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Jolie: We’re going to begin the same way we did before, by picking some pieces of plastic. Again,
I'm going to look at colors and textures, designs that are on there, and wonder how they are going
to look together. I found some really fun bubble wrap that is pink so I'm going to add that
and I'm going to layer them as I did before.
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Jolie: And be really creative here. Design something that might be really exciting for you,
something that has letters or maybe you make your name or a picture. And I'm just going
to keep layering those pieces of plastic over my parchment. Again, put a layer of parchment
on top of here. Now, as I do this I see that I have pieces of plastic beyond that layer.
That's okay. I just don't want to touch the iron to those pieces of plastic because they could melt
onto my sole plate. So I'm going to push down and fuse my pieces. Did you hear the bubble wrap pop?
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Jolie: Let it cool.
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Jolie: And then we can begin to peel it apart and I can see all my pieces didn't really
fuse together very well. So I think I need more heat. I can either turn up the iron,
if I have more pieces of plastic it might take a higher temperature. Or I can just put my iron
on here for longer and push down to really get that heat into the plastic to help it to fuse.
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Jolie: Let’s see how it turned out this time.
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Jolie: Oh no, some of my pieces got too hot! Maybe I used too much heat. So sometimes we
might have to experiment with the plastics and find out what too much heat is and what too
little heat is. So let's see. How do I handle this now that I have maybe a hole in mine?
Do I throw it away? Or do I keep trying something different? I think I'll try something different.
So let's take a different piece of plastic
and maybe I might add a patch to it. Or if I have a hole I can put something else over that hole
to fill it in. This is what is great about being a maker, being innovative,
we just try new things and we figure out how it's going to work. So I'll put another piece on here.
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Jolie: Making sure that I have parchment between my plastic and my ironing
board as well as the plastic and the iron so that we don't have melted plastic.
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Jolie: And we see what we come up with.
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Jolie: So look at this new piece. So I just added and I just keep adding pieces of plastic
and put those on there. And it will, the more layers of plastic that I put on there,
the tougher and stronger that piece of fused plastic is going to be.