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The Alto cutting system. Looked great at the expo but got it home and found it too unwieldy. It also takes too much brain power to figure out how to stack the layers for best use of fabric. When I cut that efficiently, I won't have any fabric for scraps. Once the loft is in order and I have a bigger table, I will have to give it another try.
Martina
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Fabric!
I have more than 2 bookcases FULL of quilting books that I will probably never use to make quilts. Especially now, with the internet, everything is right there & handy. When I'm gone and the kids have to sell everything, they'll be cussing me out good!! :-)
I bought the set of rulers where the cutter rides along the rim so you get perfect cuts, doesn't work for me at all and I wish I had that money back.
I love my Pinmoors and my June Tailor rulers! Definitely diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks!
My waste is the Curve Master foot. My curved piecing is STILL a disaster!
I love gadgets though. I don't mind having a stash of rulers that aren't used all that often. I do a lot of different crafts so I "borrow" my quilting rulers for other things too. Never know when you're going to need some weird angle for something...
"My waste is the Curve Master foot. My curved piecing is STILL a disaster!"
I thought so too until I realized you hold the top piece up in the air while piecing.
Sharpener...hands down was my waste..
Humm, I love gadgets and organizers but after all these tips I surely won't buy a rotary blade sharpener! The one thing in my sewing room that I hate with a passion is my serger! I spend forever threading the darn thing and the thread breaks after serging just a few inches! I swear one of these days.......
What fun reading everyone's mistakes! I have too many to name but one I particularly hate is the Fiskars Grey rotating mat. The finish chips when you cut and leaves tiny bits all over the mat. Then of course, doesn't cut straight because of all the divots in the mat. Worse part, I gave new ones to two quilting friends for Christmas before I used mine. So they had the same problem.
Amen! The old yellow ones were perfect; the new gray ones are worthless as the rotating mechanism is awful.Originally Posted by toverly
Blade sharpeners ..... hands down. What a waste! I thought at first that maybe it didn't work because it was the cheaper version but the more expensive was the same. I do love gadgets so that was to be expected. Not all gadgets are good for sure. Another thing was the supreme slider. Some love them but I'm not one of them. I prefer to just polish the bed of my machine now & then. Works good for me!
Books that I end up only using one pattern (I now spend my book $$ only on books on design); a suction on handle thing that was suppose to be used on your rulers--totally worthless!; some patterns, usually bought at from a presenter at a guild program, that I never really wanted but figured the speaker should be supported (yeah, that is me);way too many magazine subscriptions!
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