Our guild demonstrated the use of the strip stick. I had never heard of it. You press open your seems on it. If you have arthritis it is well worth the investment. Perfectly pressed open seams, no burned fingers!
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Our guild demonstrated the use of the strip stick. I had never heard of it. You press open your seems on it. If you have arthritis it is well worth the investment. Perfectly pressed open seams, no burned fingers!
You just have to be careful with what batting you chose so that the batting does not beard thru the open seams.
A Good Friend, like an old quilt, is both a Treasure and a Comfort
If you like that you can make your own - what you need is half round and just cover it in a layer of scrap batting and some fabric. Around our area - home depot didn't have the half round (just quarter round) but we did find it at Lowes. I got a long length, cut it and made them for my friends for Christmas. If you are doing something with open seams it is wonderful. They said (yes I bought one at the QS first!!) that you could also use it if pressing seams to the side. I haven't tried that yet.
I made one a while back and forgot I have it. Just need to find it. All I did was get half round and used what was left of my scorched ironing board cover. Stapled it to the back/flat side. Cost me the price of the wood and Dh took the rest. Maybe $1.00. I have a small pointed butter spatula I use to press seams open. Popsicle stick works fine to hold fabric to press.
The bare wood works just as well without any padding. An instructor showed us her pressing stick just inserted in a small sleeve and the open end slip stitched, about 7 - 8 inches long. I use one short stick covered like that for individual blocks, and a long one that is not covered for pressing a whole quilt top.Originally Posted by tessagin
Last edited by elnan; 01-11-2015 at 06:11 PM. Reason: scrambled sentence
What is a half round?
I'm glad you asked that question. I was wondering, to.
I have one and love it
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half round moulding
Here are some images - it is a piece of material usually put at the bottom of floor molding but can be used other places too, best of my knowledge.
Alyce
Oh, thank you.
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