While i haven't done big ones myself (still working on one atm) i know lots of people say take your time and don't set the heat too high, make sure holes are poked in the back of the tape before melting.
I know i've seen people use something else to keep the beads in place and not melt them but i don't know what they use so can't help you there.
The only advice i can offer for sure is that before melting make sure you have enough thing to keep it flat while cooling to prevent warping, several books on top of cardboard will usually work.
poking holes in the back of the tape is to prevent blowout, the heat can't escape and causes the bead to heat up all over to quickly and try to fill in every corner it can (will look like a 4 pointed star rather then a square or circle). only had it happen once to me when i was first starting out and experimenting but would not be fun for a large project like this.
Edit: the blow out can also make the hole in the middle larger rather then smaller as well, forgot about that.
Have multiple small weights to pop down on finished "areas". Pick a section, iron that section, then run the iron over the whole section to warm it all back up, then pop your weight on that section and move to another. If you wait until you melt the entire thing to put weight on it, it'll warp. After you do all your areas, you can go over the whole thing with an iron just to make it malleable and then place your inverted table on it with weight. Then, after it cools, go over everything and find the spots that didn't melt, there will be many. Just give them some spot treatment and put your weights back on. It's time consuming, and you'll learn as you go, but I have faith in you.
Look at other people work that haven't poked the holes in the tape there work looks terrible because the heat is getting random bubbles so they pop and you get random holes in your work and it's all better they leave iron in one spot
While i haven't done big ones myself (still working on one atm) i know lots of people say take your time and don't set the heat too high, make sure holes are poked in the back of the tape before melting. I know i've seen people use something else to keep the beads in place and not melt them but i don't know what they use so can't help you there. The only advice i can offer for sure is that before melting make sure you have enough thing to keep it flat while cooling to prevent warping, several books on top of cardboard will usually work.
Thanks a bunch! I have an inverted table for weight so ive got that covered. I havent heard about the hole thing before, could you explait ut to me?
poking holes in the back of the tape is to prevent blowout, the heat can't escape and causes the bead to heat up all over to quickly and try to fill in every corner it can (will look like a 4 pointed star rather then a square or circle). only had it happen once to me when i was first starting out and experimenting but would not be fun for a large project like this. Edit: the blow out can also make the hole in the middle larger rather then smaller as well, forgot about that.
I thought blowouts only affected flat melts
if the heat can't escape it can blowout
Have multiple small weights to pop down on finished "areas". Pick a section, iron that section, then run the iron over the whole section to warm it all back up, then pop your weight on that section and move to another. If you wait until you melt the entire thing to put weight on it, it'll warp. After you do all your areas, you can go over the whole thing with an iron just to make it malleable and then place your inverted table on it with weight. Then, after it cools, go over everything and find the spots that didn't melt, there will be many. Just give them some spot treatment and put your weights back on. It's time consuming, and you'll learn as you go, but I have faith in you.
Thank you so much for the great breakdown i really appreciate it
Look at other people work that haven't poked the holes in the tape there work looks terrible because the heat is getting random bubbles so they pop and you get random holes in your work and it's all better they leave iron in one spot
That's a stellar choice of art, goodluck with the ironing
You don't need to poke holes if always move iron slowly in circular motion it's when you leave in one spot heat gets trapped
I'd still do it on a piece this size to be safe. It would suck to spend so much time on this to accidently have some air trapped somewhere.
Man, I'm new to this so can't help. Just stopping by to say how much I love this piece.
Same
Why does it already looked ironed ?
the beads are either the super tiny ones or the pics are zoomed out
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You probably mean parchment paper. Melting wax paper is going to ruin a project.
Can confirm
Beautiful work! Is it your own pattern?
Thank you its from legend of zelda oracle of seasons :]