Here's a new gizmo on the market.  Shrinking fabric!

and now it even has an extra special price.  Normally $31.00 for a piece 1.2m x 1m.  Now, while stocks last only $22.00!

It looks and feels rather like parka nylon, it's quite fine and fairly transparent but not fiddly to work with.  The idea is that you pin it to your patchwork fabric and then you sew through the two layers in an interesting pattern.  The more densely you stitch the lines together the less shrinkage there will be.  Think of shirring elastic on your sewing machine.

You can iron the shrinking fabric with a cool iron but when you increase the heat and add steam the white shrinking fabric - shrinks!  It's really cool to watch and depending on the stitching pattern you used, you get various effects. 

The shrinking fabric comes in a pack and the size of the fabric piece is 1.2 metre x 1 metre.  (47" x 39").  The instructions on the pack are in Japanese but the photos are quite clear as to what you do.  Of course you can experiement with all sorts of ideas, adding thin batting, close or far apart stitching etc.

Below I've shown you before and after shots of my daisy fabric. 
(Sorry I don't sell this fabric, just something I had in my stash).

This is the four daisies stitched with the shrinking fabric on the back and four different stitching patterns.  The other photo shows you the shrinking fabric on the back and a clearer idea of the four different stitching patterns I used.

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The orange daisy was stitched following the petal shapes.

On the far right is the daisy shrunk and on the left is the original size of the daisy.






The purple daisy was stitched with a wiggly grid.



The white daisy was stitched with a vertical 'flame' stitch.  You can see by the shrunken daisy that it has turned into more of a vertical block because of the stitching pattern.










The pink daisy was stitched with a sort of concentric circle pattern.