How to Add a Photo to a Placemat

Video Transcript

"Hi. Shelley Cordson here with expert village. Working on our personality placemats. Okay, we now have this placemat which is my daughter, whose the drummer. And we've got it all machine quilted. Going to pull off all our extra strings here. And on this I'm going to explain this because this is another fun thing to do because you can put photographs on here. Family photos, your pet photos, just fun photos. Whatever you want to do. This happens to be a hobby of my daughters and she printed that on what we call fabric print out sheets. Okay. You can get these at Walmart. There is iron on, there's different kinds you can get. On the iron on transfers I have found that if it's something you use a lot you're going to throw in the washer? Eventually the iron on's will crack and kind of distort and just kind of fall apart. These right here, now they've gotten these sheets and basically all it is , is fabric that is ironed or sealed to a piece of paper. You can do the same thing by cutting a piece of muslin eight and a half by eleven that will fit into your ink jet printer. I ironed it on to an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of freezer paper just like we showed in the earlier step and the you can feed that through your printer. The freezer paper stiffens the fabric. So you can make your own printer sheets. I like to buy them probably because it's fast, it's convenience. Now you can buy them where they tell you that they're color fast, they're already pretreated. You don't have to try and pretreat them to keep inks from bleeding. And it will say down here. Use with your color ink jet printer. And so all she did was downloaded her picture on, fed this through our printer and then there's a paper backing you just peel off and then this just becomes a piece of regular 8 1/2 by 11 piece of fabric. Okay, it's kind of hard to separate that. But it does separate just like it did from when we did our freezer paper. So it's just fabric. Okay? And that's all I've done on here. So now we're ready. We take our piece of vinyl that is thirteen by nineteen. Get all your pieces off and you want to cover this. And I want to preserve that artwork so I'm going to cover that. And I have these bobby clips or barrettes. Whatever you call them. But believe it or not, now you're going to find them in the craft section, sewing section. Because now we use them for sewing, not just our hair. And so you don't punch a hole in the vinyl I use these to hold my vinyl in place while I put my binding on. The binding is what's going to seal this whole sandwich."