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Helpful Tips

Click on the names above to download the PDF.
Print the pages you'll need for your design from the above numbering guide to help you organize the pattern pieces in assembly order.
Cut the Large Piece guide into strips to layout on your table.
The Small Piece numbering guide is for pieces that are 1/2" or smaller. This comes in handy for the Whisper Under The Moon owls wing highlights.

Creating a Heat Safe Applique Surface

You don't need expensive items to create a heat safe working surface anywhere! Some of my desings are much larger than the products out there so you'll need...

2 Yards of Insulbright Batting
1 Yard of Bleached Muslin
Roll of Blue Painters Tape
Table large enough for your project

1) Fold the Insulbright in half, you want a double layer. If you're working on a small design, you only need the Insulbright 4" larger than your placement pattern.

2) Using the blue painters tape, tape the insulbright down to your table.

3) Cut your bleached muslin a couple of inches larger than the insulbright you taped down. Iron out any creases, spread over the top of the insulbright and tape down.

You now have a heat safe surface to fuse on. You only need to hold the iron down a few seconds to fuse the pieces. Once you're done fusing all the pieces, move to your ironing board and heat set for at least 10 seconds over the whole surface. Pick up your iron from spot to spot, DO NOT SLIDE the iron, you may push small pieces out of place.

OPPSIES!

As a one person business, it's impossible to catch everything myself. I will always make it right. Just give me a call or drop me an email.

BONUS for anyone who finds an error in a pattern or laser cut kit and is the first one to let me know, receives a FREE pattern or discount of the pattern price on their next purchase.

+++ LAST UPDATE . . . DECEMBER 5, 2025 +++

Laser cut kits purchased at the Paducah AQS Quilt Show or H+H:
Click on the design name below that you have to get the corrections mailed to you. Make sure to include your mailing address!

Whisper Under the Moon - The dark wing fabric is reversed. I'd edited the pattern for the dark wing colors, and recut, not realizing I hadn't flipped the file for right side up laser cutting. There are 4 of you out there!

Something Fishy - The medium green is flipped the wrong way. There are 7 out there.

Got Cookies - Tri Color - There were 2 sold at the AQS Paducah Quilt Show missing the Blue Black laser cut pieces.

Sugar Skull I - There are 4 out there that have mixed up Marigold background fabric. Please check your kit against the Laser Cut Numbering guide to make sure you have all the pieces. If you don't have any small face highlight pieces, you have the wrong cut set. Text me a picture of the two marigold fabrics in the kit, paper side up along with your address and I'll send you the correct ones.

Mystery Horse - I had a part going bad in my laser cutter and did not realize it was singeing the white and pale gray fabric so badly on the edges as it cut. Please check your kits and if it looks too yellowed on the edges let me know and I'll send you those two light colors to replace the ones in the kit. They are the first colors you'll use! NOTE: You CAN remove the yellow toning see directions below.

Sugar Skull III - There are just a few of you out there missing the F-Plum color fabric.

Southwest - Cactus I-III - Gold Rush Color F is too small, somehow the cutting file got shrunk. There are 7 out there.

TIP: Removing Yellowed Edging on Laser Cut Fabrics

I had a part go bad in my laser cutter, and it did a little extra toning on the edges of light colored fabrics because it was not blowing the heat and fumes away fast enough. I've also heard this has been a problem with other laser cut kits out there from other companies. So I experimented until I figured out how to remove the majority of the toning.

You CAN remove the majority of the extra
yellow toning fairly easy:

1) Mix a drop of Dawn dish soap and 1/2 Cup water in a little dish.

2) Fold a paper towel into quarters and wet one corner.

3) BLOT the yellowed area lightly to dampen and loosen up the toning. DO NOT RUB! Or you may fray the edges or push the yellowing
into the fibers.

4) Take NEW DRY paper towl and press down firmly to draw up the moisture and yellowing. Always switch to an unused area of the
paper towel each time you press down.

5) Repeat as needed, takes maybe twice or three times at most.

6) Let dry completely before proceeding with assembly.

Best to do this before fusing down. You can do it after, just be careful if you have rich dark colors close by, blot quickly to keep the other colors from possibly bleeding over.

The whites and super pale tones will always have a hint of the laser cut, but it shouldn't be glaring.