Stuff you Use for Quilting, that isn't originally for Quilting!!!
#101
Instead of buying real glasses to make your red tinted glasses out of - try making a cardboard or cardstock, thick framed template and tape red cellophane behind the cut out holes. A pattern is very easy to make. Something like the paper frames you used to get at the theatre for watching 3-D movies. Made these in an art class once and the kids had a ball wearing them.
#102
Originally Posted by olebat
Originally Posted by QuiltE
Originally Posted by olebat
Originally Posted by QuiltE
Where, pray tell, does one buy such quilt-fashionista
eyeglasses? :)
eyeglasses? :)
#103
Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 125
Originally Posted by Baloonatic
Originally Posted by sushi
I position grocery bags on the floor at every point where I think I'll want to discard stuff. For example, one sits on the left side of my sewing machine and another sits on the right. I have 4 positioned at different spots around my cutting table. So handy!
I know Eleanore Burns throws her scraps over her shoulder, but I don't have the staff she does :-)
I know Eleanore Burns throws her scraps over her shoulder, but I don't have the staff she does :-)
I use cardboard from cereal boxes to make patterns for applique
#104
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: northern California
Posts: 1,098
Originally Posted by Karen Powell
I have never heard of a pin moore. But this sounds like a great and practical idea !
Sometimes less is more, and sometimes I just don't understand the problem. Forgive me if this is one of those times! This is really an informative line of discussion!!!
Also, I bought one of those huge African baskets with a handle at a street fair and it holds all the fabrics, and even some I may or may not use (but were a "close" second) of whatever quilt I'm working on . I also use it when I go to a class. I do some "art" quilting and am never sure that I'm really done with a fabric, or I might just screw up so much I have to start over with a section, or..... I love not having to panic and dig thru my stash, but have it right there until the quilt is done.
I also use clear topped pencil boxes (got a bunch at Staples on sale) and put tools in one, threads in another, pencils, erasers, glues in another, etc. I'm trying so hard to keep organized :roll:
#105
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: in front of this dang computer instead of my Bernina!(Naples, Florida)
Posts: 1,653
Originally Posted by lindasidlow
I put an old tricot nightgown over my clothes when I'm sewing. Keeps the "quilt poop" from attaching to me. Just slides right off!
#109
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Ft. Myers, Florida
Posts: 928
artist paintbrush for cleaning bobbin case, orange wood stick for stilletto, prescription bottles for used needles and no longer useable pins, priscription bottles for taking my pins to class with me, clothespins for holding my binding on, cookbook holder for holding pattern up to read as I work.
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