Sprite Stitch Board!

Does anyone have any tips on how to:

1) Evenly melt beads? (especially the edges)
2) Properly melt large (multiple Pegboard size) projects?
3) What type of surface should/can I iron on? sometimes the Ironing board is to soft especially if I have multiple pegboards.

Plus I would much appreciate any other tips you my have.

Cheers

well for starters,
1. to evenly melt the beads, move the iron in small circles around the beads
2. can't help you with large projects (mine all were made on a single 29X29 pegboard)
3. surface to iron on, I iron on a hard, smooth surface like a table or countertop
hope this helps

theBoz wrote:well for starters,
1. to evenly melt the beads, move the iron in small circles around the beads
2. can't help you with large projects (mine all were made on a single 29X29 pegboard)
3. surface to iron on, I iron on a hard, smooth surface like a table or countertop
hope this helps

Yeah,
Every little bit helps. thanks alot

Keep in mind the heat "melts" the beads, but the pressure pushes them against eachother...so the harder you push the more they will mush

Now for the biggins.....im still learning as i think i will be for awhile, but i seem to like to do the bigger ones myself. Ironing in sections helps alot for the big stuff. I try to make sure that i see the beads sticking to the paper before i move to another section. One thing to remember though is that the heat does transfer to the pegboards....so try not to linger in one spot too long.

And for surfaces...i stick to hard and flat. I had to upgrade my table cuz the one i started with was too small (i really like doing big stuff)

Dragoniron7 wrote:Keep in mind the heat "melts" the beads, but the pressure pushes them against eachother...so the harder you push the more they will mush

Now for the biggins.....im still learning as i think i will be for awhile, but i seem to like to do the bigger ones myself. Ironing in sections helps alot for the big stuff. I try to make sure that i see the beads sticking to the paper before i move to another section. One thing to remember though is that the heat does transfer to the pegboards....so try not to linger in one spot too long.

And for surfaces...i stick to hard and flat. I had to upgrade my table cuz the one i started with was too small (i really like doing big stuff)

Yeah I have seen some of your stuff and they are pretty huge and they look good
Thanks for the tips. I'll hopefully be posting my megamna stuff soon.

I've done a few large projects and I recommend ironing very slowly. And I'm still getting it down on big projects myself. I've noticed that it seems like the beads in the middle take a little longer to iron for some reason. And with big ones I have to use several pieces of ironing paper to cover the whole thing. For me it's easier b/c then if you have to peel the paper up to move it to another section, the beads that aren't quite ironed yet will come up and then you'll have to fix it. A big pain in the rear. I hate ironing big projects. I have no patience. But you have to for those to iron well. Hope this helps.

i started with small simple shapes and have moved up to doing large projects. my first (and only so far) was 4x3 boards. now the ironing of it is kicking my butt here... i don't really want to use the small sheets that came with the boards and beads, so i went and bought reynolds wax paper... that stuff stuck like you wouldn't believe, i'm still peeling it off.... so i tryed some freezer paper, on the box it even says "use for arts and crafts" that was a HUGE bust! wouldn't even peel off the project at all. i saw some parchment paper and thought i read somewhere that you could use that, but i'm tired of buying papers and they just stick to the beads.

so what kind of paper should i use? i really dont like those small sheets. and i'll buy the parchment paper if it won't stick, but i'd like to hear that from someone that uses it.
my roommate suggested spraying the reynolds wax paper with pam non-stick cooking spray before i put it over the beads to iron,. but that just sounds like it wouldn't work..

please help!!

the wax paper doesn't work because the wax is actually melting to the beads. I think that the parchment paper would work, but I haven't tried it myself.

i got my paper on ebay and havent had any problems with it, both small and large paper.

Dragoniron7 wrote:i got my paper on ebay and havent had any problems with it, both small and large paper.

i'd go on ebay and check out what your saying, but i don't have a clue what your saying..

ok so you buy paper on ebay, what kind?? wax paper? parchment paper? the perler paper that comes with the beads?