Hey everyone!
This is Sarah with SewingPartsOnline.com and today I'm going to show you a few tips and
tricks for using heat set glue.
Alright, now let's get into the fun part.
Couple things to think about and to have with you when you are doing this if you want a
really successful finished product.
Keep a hold of the back of the packaging.
It has all this information already on it for you, so you can refer to it later if you
forget or if you just need a quick tip or quick reminder.
Now when we're doing this, we're going to do it on two different kinds of fabrics.
We're going to do it on a satin kind of fabric.
It's not real satin, but you know, it's like a poly satin.
And a standard cotton.
Two things that you need; you need your glue.
But you also want a muslin cover for your ironing board, because with, you can make
some of the fabric dyes leak with this on to your ironing board.
Also, it's glue, so it's going to get a little sticky.
It's just going to protect your iron.
I'm going to be using my heat press.
I'm going to be using a muslin cover for the ironing board.
And I'm going to be using a "heat resistant" press cloth.
Really, this is just some batting.
A couple layers of fabric will do fine.
Basically, the point is to more evenly distribute the heat so that you don't get a crunchy finish
and to protect your sole plate from getting gunky.
You know, the fabric will stick on it and lift with it.
All that nastiness.
So, let's just jump right in to it.
First, we're going to do the cotton.
Here is the trick to using heat, or heat products, you want to shake it up, apply it evenly across
the fabric.
You don't need a lot.
You really don't need a lot to do this.
You just need to distribute it evenly.
So kind of really work it around.
You don't want gunked up parts.
It's just a nice - and use the nozzle.
Now, one layer at time.
So if you wanted to do a full hem, (do the one and then the two), no no no no.
Just do one gluing at a time.
Bring down your iron or your pressing tool for a total of 60 seconds.
So, we're going to wait 60 seconds and then we're going to lift.
So now we lift it and remove our heat press, or our heat cover, and you can see it still
have that flexibility that you want and it's not popping up.
Now, with this setting - on the bottle it recommends to use a wool setting, okay.
For this, I increased it to the cotton setting because I have this thick heat press (cloth)
I really want the heat to be distributed evenly as kind of like a buffer.
So, I did 60 seconds with this kind of heavy cotton, well, like a medium cotton, and used
the linen setting.
So, it was actually pretty hot.
And that is how I got this.
Now you can over heat something, so make sure you stick to 60 seconds.
Now, I'll go ahead and flip this again and show you how it works with two layers.
So, just do the exact same process.
Shake it up, distribute it evenly, as evenly as you can.
You don't have to gunk it on, it's not first grade art project, really kind of spread it
out.
Don't go overboard on the glue.
And then we'll see what it looks like here in 60 seconds.
Alright, so we went ahead and did our 60 seconds.
Because it's two layer, if you find that it's kind of popping up after 60 seconds, go ahead
and put a little more time on it.
But, here we go, let's see.
Nope, not coming up.
And it still maintains that flexibility.
that's what we really like, the flexibility that you don't get with other kinds of glues.
Now with this, this is washable, however, i would only wash it on the cold setting and
I do not recommend stitching over this.
This isn't like stitch witchery - some of those you can stitch over - were some of those
you can stitch over.
I really don't recommend stitching over this.
It's going to gunk up your machine.
It's going to give you uneven stitches.
This is really for the no-sew projects, when you don't actually want to sew a hem . Now,
let's go ahead and do the satin fabric and watch how well it works on that.
Now, let's apply our layer or glue.
Same as before, spread it out as best as you can to avoid any of those lumpy areas.
Flip it over.
Cover it with your cloth.
Now, with this one, we are going to do it for 60 seconds on a wool setting.
This is the one we are going to use the wool setting on.
With the cotton, we cranked it up to linen, because, once again you have this protection
over it, but with this one we are going to stick to wool.
We're going to do 60 seconds.
It will work wonderfully.
Alright, so let's lift it up and take a look.
Okay, so you can see here, I had a little bit of the dye come out of it.
I didn't prewash it or anything, but you can see here it maintains that flexibility, right?
And the cool thing about this is, you don't see those - sometimes with glue you can see
the discoloration underneath, but this one, you can't tell at all.
It's really nice.
Flick it up.
It's not coming undone.
Working really, really well.
Same as with the other fabric; I would flip this over and it will have the same look again.
You know, it will still have that flexibility.
It will still adhere very well.
The one thing about this that you need to know is that this isn't going to work on your
super thin fabrics and sheer fabrics.
It's going to get crunchy; it's just not going to work.
You're better off using a strip of, like, stitch witchery or something with a thinner
fabric.
But, it does work great for medium to heavy fabrics.
I will work with your delicate fabric.
Remember, use some kind of buffer.
Right?
So like our premade quilted scraps or whatever.
And use a muslin on the bottom to protect your iron board.
And that is pretty much all there is to this stuff.
You can do no-sew projects, although we never recommend doing no-sew, but in those cases
when you do need to, this is a great product to use.
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