Transfer-Eze, a new product for embroidery.
I was reading the magazine Quilt Mania and I came across a new embroidery product called Transfer Eze. With Transfer Eze you can put a sheet into your computer (like a normal sheet of paper) and print your embroidery pattern. Once this is done you peel that backing material off then stick the film, with the image, onto your fabric. When you finish stitching your design you use cold water to get rid of the film, leaving just your stitching and fabric.
Here is my step by step on using Transfer Eze and the results.
Using my regular, cheap HP printer I printed my design onto the Transfer Eze.
I peeled off the backing paper and stuck the image on 100 % cotton muslin fabric. The Transfer Eze was easy to apply. As you can see I didn’t iron my fabric and the film adhered very nicely.
Printing on the Transfer Eze was very easy and left a nice, dark and clear pattern. Transfer Eze feels like a paper fabric.
No problem putting the fabric and the Trans. Eze into my hoop. The Trans. Eze feels like having your fabric applied to a stabilizer.
Very little trouble with stitching. There is some extra resistance but probably not much different than using a stabilizer. I have major carpel tunnel and stitching with Trans. Eze didn’t bother me a bit.
You can see the texture of the Trans. Eze in this photo. I tend to manhandle my work so I was glad to find that I had no lifting or releasing of the Trans. Eze while stitching.
Completed stitched design with Trans. Eze still attached to fabric.
After stitching, peel and cut away extra Trans. Eze.
Lastly, after clipping the extra Trans. Eze off I soaked my fabric in cold water. The directions states that it takes 5 to 10 minutes to remove the film, but it dissolved much faster on my project.
The only problem I had with Transfer Eze is that Trans. Eze film was like having a very thin spacer between the stitching and fabric. When I removed the film my stitches weren’t as tight as I would like to be. I believe I could improve the tension of my stitches with practice. Maybe this tension problem happens with stabilizers too? I just don’t know.
Remember, if you try Transfer Eze practice on a sample first. The results I had may not be the same for everyone and every fabric.
The only place I could find Transfer Eze was at Original Creations Quilt Shop. Here is their info.:
Original Creations Quilt Shop, 16863 Highline Blvd., Cut and Shoot, TX, 77306
phone: 956-491-5650
Email; jerry@originalcreationsquiltshop.com
Website: http://www.originalcreationsquiltshop.com/home.htm , Their website is a little hard to use. If you click on Transfer Eze it doesn’t take you anywhere.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Cute design and interesting product! Thanks for testing it for the rest of us!
(Oh, and I just have to say that the name of the town (Cut and Shoot) that Original Creations is located is a hoot!)
January 31st, 2010 at 12:39 am
This sounds like something I’d like to try. Thanks for the review!
January 31st, 2010 at 6:43 am
Nice review Andrea!
January 31st, 2010 at 10:06 am
Wow, thanks for the review! I think I will give it a try!
January 31st, 2010 at 11:03 am
Thank you for the review! This might be worth trying.
January 31st, 2010 at 12:04 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:55 am
This sounds so much better than the red transfer pencils I’ve been using. I knew transfer technology had to of evolved and now I know where. Thanks!
February 1st, 2010 at 1:00 pm
wow! that’s so cool!
i use a tear away stabilizer almost every time i embroider. i cut it to 8.5×11″ sheets and run it through my printer, then hoop it with the fabric the same way you have with this product. it doesn’t stick, though i guess you could use a temporary spray - i don’t think you really need it. i started doing it this way because my stitches are so tiny and tight that i was having problems with the fabric puckering no matter how tightly i’d hooped it (and i tried stitching looser, but i’m too anal!), and because it’s a super easy way to stitch on dark fabrics without worrying about transfering. it’s super cheap (i pay $1/yd for the stabilizer) and super easy, but it doesn’t work for all kinds of stitches (like satin stitch), and i do end up spending some time with a pair of tweezers at the end of the project!
transfer-eze sounds like it would be perfect for projects where the stitching is so close together that tear away wouldn’t tear away easily, or where i’m doing lots of satin stitch. awesome!
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:19 pm
thank you for such a detailed explanation
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:15 am
Wow! I’ve been looking for something like this. My biggest challenge is finding ways to transfer embroidery designs. Can you recommend any other products or techniques? Thanks for sharing such valuble information!
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:35 pm
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February 8th, 2010 at 10:11 am
You can also get Transfer-Eze at Bird Brain Designs:
http://www.birdbraindesigns.net/transfer-eze.aspx
March 1st, 2010 at 10:56 am
Thanks Andrea. I gave up after finishing the embroidery on muslin portion of a project, stumbling on the wool felt design in the center. I tried everything to trace the design on the felt to no avail. Just purchased a test piece of T-E from Bird Brain Designs http://www.birdbraindesigns.net. Did you use the regular setting on your printer? Directions say light (vs. dark) settings. I can adjust, but if regular works, will go with that.
March 1st, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Joan, I just put the Transfer -Eze E into my printer and printed. I didn’t change any settings.
Andrea
March 8th, 2010 at 7:11 am
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