 Hi you guys welcome back to my channel inside the hymn. I've got a really fun video for you today. I'm going to be reviewing a product that is new to me. I don't know if it's new to the market but it's definitely new to me and it is the spray and bond fabric stiffener. Have you guys ever seen this or heard of it before? I got it because I was recently making this cutie little top. This is the Love Notions Tranquil top part of like a little nightwear set and in it you have to make this little bias binding trim. This is a knit top pajamas and you have to bind it sort of like bias binding and as you know when you go to cut your knit strip to make that bias binding it ends up like this. It ends up folding in on itself right? It makes this huge like just jelly roll of itself and it's impossible to get it to stay flat and so I was like I just do not feel like fighting with this. I don't want it to interfacing because I don't want it to impact sort of the weight and structure of the bias binding like what can I do? So that's whenever I grabbed the fabric stiffener and decided to give it a shot. I'm going to show you exactly how this stuff works. It's super super easy to use and a lot like magic. I was so thoroughly impressed with how it helped my binding, how it made that process so much easier so hopefully you guys will see that and at the very least grab it to make bindings but I think we can find a lot of other practical applications for this as well. So let me jump over to my cutting table and show you guys just how to use this, how it works and what the end result ends up looking like. Okay to use this stuff you need parchment paper. They tell you to get two pieces. I'm only going to get one piece because I'm a little bit economical. I'll show you how to get around that. I'm going to take my fabric and because I'm using a knit and I'm using this to stiffen up the knit so the edges don't curl I'm actually going to flip this over and lay it flat and we're going to pretend that my strip is only this long however long it is though. It works trust. All right so and I'm doing this also with the strip like toward the second half of the paper because we're going to end up folding the paper over like this in order to set the product. Okay so this is the product here spray and bond fabric stiffener and you want to shake it like crazy. You have to mix it all up really good to start so just keep shaking keep shaking you really really want to mix all that stuff in together. All right and once you're done shaking we are going to spritz this fabric. Now the thing that separates this stuff from other fabric stiffeners on the market is that your fabric does not have to be wet first. My fabric is completely completely dry like I just cut it off of the um scrap that I have. So this is completely dry and then we are going to hold this like eight to ten inches away from the fabric and spritz until damp. Okay so a couple things are happening here because we turned the fabric upside down the edges are not curling up. If we had done it the other way like this this is what would have happened. They curl into themselves like crazy so we've made our lives a little bit easier by preventing that ever so slightly. Now in order to get this to set and be firm we are going to take it over to our iron which is set at a medium heat with no steam. Okay medium heat no steam and you literally just run your iron pick your iron up put it down five seconds maybe doesn't really say on the bottle so just you know do what your fabric can handle but you're going to keep the heat on this for as long as it takes for this to dry. Okay so let me do that and I'll come back and show you what it looks like. Okay I'm done with the ironing I basically did about like each section for a total of 30 seconds five seconds at a time so if you have a heat press like a cricket uh heat press or other kind of heat press that's larger that would be really helpful too but if all you've got is your iron just keep going back and forth back and forth until you have the whole thing dried then you bring it back over to your work table let it cool completely like this is not hot at all and then we can peel this back you can see that it's totally dry and remember this is what we started with okay this amount of drape right this is what we have now it's definitely a lot stiffer right our oh you can see it really good there um like it's standing up on itself and the best part is and what I loved it for so much is that our little edges are not curling in any direction this is the same same side facing up and it's laying completely flat so you can see you can sew this into your um t-shirt neck bands arm bands wherever you've got and you're not going to have to deal with all of this curling I mean the more that you work with this the more it begins to curl so you're not going to have to deal with that at all if you use the fabric stiffener I mean it really is the coolest coolest stuff and then all you do is sew it it does not gunk up your machine it does not gunk up your needles um the fabric still feels the same the color is pretty close as you can see so you can just leave it in if you want or when you the next time you wash that garment it will wash out and you will just be left with like a beautiful um finish to your item and all right that's it it really is so simple and straightforward to use and as you can tell it produced a neck band or a strip of fabric that was much easier to work with especially whenever it's on a knit and it's super super super thin this is the finished result of my neck band please do not judge how I'm a little bit short on bias binding there whoopsies um but I have not washed this yet so this is the binding with the fabric stiffener still in it without it being washed out and you can tell it's still relatively malleable it's not like stiff as a board um you can still wear it and it still feels comfortable and then when you wash it out it's going to just be like a regular neck band but you can tell that I was able to get a really beautiful clean finish all along my neck band because that strip of fabric was not being a little rolly polly and being like pretty much impossible to work with so I'm a big fan I'm going to be figuring out lots of different ways that I can use this um honestly anytime you just want a fabric to behave you know what I'm saying you spray this on and it you become its boss so um I have linked in the description box to this fabric stiffener to be able to on amazon available through um thermo web slash spray and bonds website um I don't think it's available in stores so I think you have to order it online but it's really great super super great easy to use results speak for themselves but that is going to do for me today y'all thank you so much for watching I will see you all very soon bye