Wooden Yard Sticks
#21
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I think the one I screwed onto my sewing table was bought at Walmart. My favorite one is one given to me by a sweet lady (now deceased)...it's actually an inch square in diameter and can be used for a walking stick or club!!
#22
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Eastern Long Island
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I picked up a bunch of them at a landscape/growers convention. I also was able to get a number of reusable bags for free also. (The best part with the bags was that they were all different sizes, from small to extra large.)The vendors were using them as advertising.
#24
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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The free ones now are easy to bend and usually bowed. I have a few of the free ones from my grandmother's house and they are thick and solid with metal tabs on the ends. Most of the yardsticks I see now are plastic rulers. That said, the bright yellow metal ones at Lowe's are exactly 2 1/2" wide. They are labeled as straight edges not yard sticks. Best thing ever to mark straight lines on a quilt top. I have the 4ft and 6ft length. Inexpensive too!
#26
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
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My Janome dealer gave me a free yardstick when I bought my 6600. It's the "bendy" kind, though - probably made from sawdust and glue and mostly held together by the bright yellow paint that covers it!
I have a metal yardstick and a metal meter stick that I bought online, I think they were both pretty inexpensive. My niece and nephew thought they were great for "playing swords" though, so they're kind of beat up on the edges now. *sigh* LOL
I have a metal yardstick and a metal meter stick that I bought online, I think they were both pretty inexpensive. My niece and nephew thought they were great for "playing swords" though, so they're kind of beat up on the edges now. *sigh* LOL
#27
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Carroll, Iowa
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I still have a few laying around here too. Some in my workshop and one or two in my sewing room. Don't use them but they're there if I do need them. I've gone to the plastic or metal rulers these days as they last longer and don't splinter as the wooden ones do.
#30
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Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
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I have a wooden one that I bought in expensively at Walmart, that I have hanging horizontal on the wall, so I can measure fabric quickly when/if I forget how large the piece is. DH found me a metal one but no sure where or how much, but I do use both for different things.
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