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stevef · Last edited by stevef on Thu Sep 04, 2003 5:29 pm; edited 1 time in total

What is your prefered method of transfering a graphic onto the fabric?

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Steve D · Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 647 Location: USA GA Newnan

Limited experience here. I've drawn to scale directly on the fabric and made full-size posterboard templates....Would love to have some templates made for things I plan to do multiples of (like Eddy's to train) and for little sleds for kids.....

Kitesquid · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:48 am Post subject:

I bought a WELL used overhead projector from a county sale for $7.

Les Duty in Richmond VA shops the Henrico County surplus store and they have them all the time. He picked up 5 of them for me and I sold 4 of them to friends at my cost. They all were used in the school system so they are a little rough cosmetically, but as long as the optics works I am happy. Very Happy

If you buy a used one, check to see if it has a spare bulb in it and that it works too. Plug it in and test BOTH bulbs as they cost more than the used projectors usually do.

I work my graphics on my PC or on paper. I print or copy onto transparency film, or you could draw directly on it and then project onto the fabric and trace away. I recently started using IIRC a template pencil that IIRC I bought from Steve at the MKS retreat, but I don’t see them in the online catalog today.

I used to use water soluble quilting pencils, but the Template marking pencil is black and still seems to wash out.
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Steve D · Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 647 Location: USA GA Newnan

Hmmm, need to see if the county I live in has a surplus store or surplus sales. Bet they do.

My cutting table is actually a school teachers' desk we bought out of an old school building that was about to be torn down. Has a hard 3 x 5 top and is very heavy. Got it for $3.

kiteguy · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:14 pm Post subject: Drawing applique

Sometimes I draw freehand, sometimes I use an opaque projector or overhead projector. I even scale on the computer and then trace. I have not used the grid method of enlarging, yet. Mostly I like to use the computer and opaque projector.

kitenerd · Master Kite Builder Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 58

I'm not fortunate enough to have an old overhead projector, but i do have the trusty old kodak slide projector - heres what i do:

I draw, adapt, manipulate (or outright copy) my artwork on the computer and then scale it to fit a 35mm slide. I print out on inkjet transparancy and mount that in an old slide mount (the plastic ones pop open). Put the projector on the paint tray of a ladder and you can trace the design onto fabric at eye level.

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Stan · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:37 pm Post subject:

As a graphic artist, I tend to use CorelDraw for scalable images and print tiled pages, but for sweeping curves on a curved surface, freehand pencil can give a better idea of what the line will do on curved fabric. I usually revise the computer prints with pencil anyway.

Sometimes freehand gives a more graceful line than what is shown on a monitor screen, and saves you from sitting at the tube. Don't we all get enough of that? Wink

Projectors are cool, but you need room to set them up. Years ago I used kid's opaque "Magnajector" for freelance art with pretty good result. These things use a standard light bulb so the room has to be dark. They turn up at flea markets for a few bucks. and are almost indestuctable. Optics are crude, so you have to put some English on your tracing hand.
You can make some intentional keystone effects with these.

Stan

Kitesquid · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 3:16 pm Post subject:

Stan et al,

I gave up TV over 3 years ago.

I only watch things on tape or DVD, but nothing brocast...

I now have more time to build and fly kites!!!!!
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P.S. Yet another long winded post by the Squid..... Shocked

P.P.S. The wind is like the air, only pushier.

smarties · Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 431 Location: Dieppe, NB, Canada

I usually scan, copy/paste to drawing tool like MS Visio and print real size on paper as a template. Than draw by hand using the template.

Smarties

Mountain Man · Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 617 Location: NB Canada

I have done free hand ....Pfd pages full size .... Corel draw ....! what ever is needed ! as a artist it does not worry me at all .... as I can change the lines to my liking ! Rolling Eyes

but once plans are on templates I use Quilter's pencils and trace on the Ripstop !
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