My gold foil and fabric paints arrived in the week so I was able to play with them at the weekend. This is continuing the class I am taking at QU. We were supposed to paint fusible webbing and then apply it to our patch. The metal foil was then to be applied on top of the painted webbing. Since some people had been having trouble with their painted fusible webbing not wanting to fuse, and I could only get Wonder Under, which was the problem child, I decided just to paint onto the fabric, which turned out quite well.
Then I put some Wonder Under on the painted patch and tried to get the gold foil to stick – no success. So then I tried ironing under baking parchment. No success. After consulting the website selling the foil and other sites selling foil and reading the lesson notes again, I thought that maybe the “coloured” side up mentioned was the other side to that which I’d had showing. (I ended up with just gungey foil and shiny glue on the patch with my first attempts). So I turned my foil over and ironed it for good luck – and ended up with an excess of foil on my patch – and no paint showing. So then I painted on top of that. It’s not looking too bad now – but that patch has certainly had “the works” 
After that experience I went for the powder glue on my other patches. Still managed to iron the wrong side once again. But I’m learning slowly. I have some nice distressed bits of gold foil on my other patches.
I’ve rather gone from one extreme to the other!
The foil looks silver on this photo rather gold. But you get the general idea.
