I love fast2fuse. Can I love Timtex, too?
For those of you who aren’t familiar with fast2fuse, it’s a stiff, double-sided fusible interfacing, perfect for use in any and all 3D crafts. Some quilters, including Laura Wasilowski, use fast2fuse instead of batting on their wallhanging quilts.
Timtex was fast2fuse’s forerunner. It’s a heavyweight interfacing, but without the fusible. When our fast, fun & easy Fabric Bowls book (by Linda Johanson) first came out, there was only Timtex. (And I bought a bolt!) So you had to use fusible on your fabric to fuse it to the Timtex on both sides before you could make your bowl. More time and more product to buy.
So we developed fast2fuse to cut out that adding-fusible step.
And I embraced it! I love to use it in Halloween costumes (check out Super Simple Creative Costumes by Sue Astroth to see the possibilities), bowls, boxes… anything. For awhile, Timtex was unavailable, and I didn’t give it a second thought.
But now Timtex is back, and I don’t always need to fuse in my fast2fuse applications (like in purse bottoms). So I’m being tempted away from fast2fuse. I feel guilty. Yes, I will readily admit that I’m the queen of anthropomorphizing! (Knowing in my rational mind that inanimate objects don’t have feelings doesn’t stop me from feeling bad for them…)
So here’s my questions: Is it possible to cheat on a substrate?
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You are so funny Gailen. When wrestling with this dilemma just try to think about what Carrie Bradshaw would say…
Gailen,
I love fast2fuse and Timtex! Most of the time I use it with batting on my small quilts. First I hand stitch the quilt then insert the fast2fuse (cut the same size and shape as the batt) and use a wrapped binding. It has changed my art work!