I have recently been playing around with sewing onto PVC plastic. (Inspired by an article in Stitch magazine, Dec 08/Jan 09.) I have used two layers with pieces of fabric between, then free motion sewing them together, technically a quilt I think, as it has three layers put together.
My sewing machine drops the feed dogs, allowing the free motion but I kept finding the free motion not so free - upon close examination, I realised that the plastic was sticking to the machine.
I had bought this handy looking thing a few years ago, when I was visiting my friend in New York and had visited the City Quilter shop and HAD to buy something - but I hadn't wanted to buy anything bulky that would take up room in my suitcase. So there it was, this thing that looked like it would be ever so useful.
This is the first time I have used it, at least three years since I got it, if not four. It is actually rather fortunate that I remembered I have it. Anyway, it worked a treat, the plastic slides around on it beautifully. So now I am happily sewing on the plastic.
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By what I read on that link you gave, you'd have to be using it at a high temperature to have problems. Presumably you're not such a high-speed sewer (soh- wer, not drainage pipe) that the teflon will heat up.
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