Adhesive wouldn't be my first choice (far from it!), but try this method of
fusing -- it works well for interfacings and might work here
1) Prepare your ironing board. Remove any of those metallized board
covers
and replace with plain cotton muslin, duck or canvas.
2) Prepare your press cloth. Dip plain muslin in water, and wring out by
hand
till the fabric is moist, not dripping.
3) Prepare the iron. For most household irons, set it to "dry" and
"linen"
(that is, no steam, high heat). Preheat for at least 5 minutes.
4) Place the t-****rt on the ironing board. Add the adhesive backed
appliques. Cover with the wrung-out press cloth. Press (straight down,
with
force, not sliding back and forth in an ironing motion) for 15 seconds.
Move
the iron and press again until all the appliques have been pressed on.
Press cloth should be dry but not charring.
5) Now comes the hard part: DO NOT MOVE THE T-****RT UNTIL IT IS COOL.
No, cool, as in room temperature. Get your fingers off the edge of that
applique. Cool. Completely cool. Ok, now you can try to lift the
applique.
If the applique lifts, try again, increasing the dwell time of the
iron in 5 second increments until it stays. If the polyester melts, try
a cooler iron or a shorter dwell time. If the adhesive strikes through,
choose another with a lesser amount of adhesive. The keys to fusing
fabric are heat, steam, getting the fabric dry and then cooled without
disturbing it. Household steam irons don't produce enough steam to
do the job thoroughly, and the aluminized ironing board covers seem to
keep the fabric both too wet and too hot for good fusing.
Kay (who thinks it'd be a lot easier to just do a corded raw-edge applique
and call it done)
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