This afternoon, I printed 120 .5" circles and 60 .75" circles using the new Inklingo circle collection. They are sized to use with Karen Kay Buckley perfect circles. I took a quick photo and am not sure how wells the lines show up in the photo. Mary
Looks like it works great. I just ordered it to use in my applique' quilts.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like there won't be much wasted fabric?
ReplyDeleteI've seen the results of pieced quilts from Inklingo and they're wonderful.
It will be so nice for you to have your circles ready to go when you'll need them? :)
Okay, ladies, you got me on this one. What is Inklingo and what does it do? Is there a webpage I can go to? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteKathy Webb
How do you send the fabric through the printer? Do you iron it to freezer paper?
ReplyDeleteI'm confused...why are the circles so close together?
ReplyDeleteI had to look up Inklingo too. Apparently you iron your fabric to freezer paper and send it through an ink-jet printer, wrong side up, and print the templates on your fabric. For this, you will cut out the circles, then use them with the iron-able (is that a word?) Perfect Circles templates. Those are great, by the way. There is probably less wasted fabric for the circles.
ReplyDeleteFor other inklingo stuff it looks like you iron to paper, print, then peel off paper, then cut, then sew. The ink should wash out?
I went and read the patent file on the US Patent site and it basically says that the technique of printing with vector-based graphic templates is what she patented. Honestly... printing on quilt fabric is nothing new and printing specialty templates is nothing new. So I don't know what to think about that.
Thanks for the info on the Inklingo. Now this brings up a question for me: What are ironable Perfect Circle templates? I know (and use) Karen Buckey's Perfect Circles, but they're not ironable nor templates. You use them to gather up the fabric around them and press them and then take them out when the fabric is dry. So am I missing something else with the ironable templates? I need all the help I can get with circles! Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteKathy Webb
Oops - sorry about the type on the last post. I, of course, meant Karen Buckley. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteKathy Webb
You are correct re: the ironing of right side of fabric to freezer paper and sending it through to print on the wrong side of the fabric-----but---- the beauty is that you choose the color and intensity of the ink for the printing so the ink will wash out. You also set your printer for the size of fp that you are using to print the number of shapes that you want.
ReplyDeleteLove those circles, Mary! What a "perfect" way to make circles for our Roseville and Lollypop quilts! The beauty of Inklingo, in my opinion, is that there are no templates involved. You do not have to draw stitching lines on your fabric. The cutting and stitching lines are printed directly on your fabric. What a time saver! Not advertising, just a happy customer
ReplyDeleteHave been away a while and just getting back to my third Roseville block. Hope you can stitch today!
hugs,
brenda