Stuff you Use for Quilting, that isn't originally for Quilting!!!
#131
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Pueblo, Co
Posts: 663
a muleta-which is a carrying case woven of bamboo strips, make in Mexico. It's like a small suitcase/totebag which I found at goodwill. I lined with neutral fabric, putting side pockets in various sizes to hold rulers, rotary cutter, scissors. Also sewed elastic loops on the sides to hold thread. I can even put my FW in it. I use pencil boxes to hold my rotary cutters.
#132
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 39
Lots of dollar stores have collophane. Look at christmas time for red. Good luck. I also find lots of discounted palstic bins drawers and organizing containers at the dollar general store micro fiber dust cloths 4 for 2.00 for keeping sewing room dust free.
#133
Originally Posted by olebat
Originally Posted by alwayslearning
Where do you get red cellophane?
#134
Empty prescription bottles for bobbins.
Those little silica packets that come in vitamin bottles and in new shoes and new purses. I put them in drawers with my fabric to absorb moisture.
Skirt hangers to hold finished small projects like wall hangings and table runners in my closet- no fold lines!
Pants hangers to hold long yardage in my closet- just fold over the hangers.
4 foot x 8 foot vinyl lattice (like for climbing vines) mounted on the wall holds all my quilting stencils. I use small S-hooks on it and wow, it holds hundreds of stencils.
Coffee filters to hold thread snips and lil junk on the sewing table and on the longarm machine.
Small paintbrushes to clean the bobbin area on sewing machine and longarm, and bigger paintbrushes to clean the rails on the longarm frame.
School chalk for marking, and the cheaper the halk, the easier it brushes off. I like the Dollar store chalk.
Batting scraps for brushing off the school chalk markings.
Clear plastic sheet protectors and dry erase markers from Staples. I take a photo of my quilt and a photo of my block, closeup. Put the prints of the photographs in the plastic sheet protectors, and then draw quilting designs on them with dry erase marker. I erase the designs with batting scraps. I just keep auditioning different quilting designs until I find what I like the best.
Those little silica packets that come in vitamin bottles and in new shoes and new purses. I put them in drawers with my fabric to absorb moisture.
Skirt hangers to hold finished small projects like wall hangings and table runners in my closet- no fold lines!
Pants hangers to hold long yardage in my closet- just fold over the hangers.
4 foot x 8 foot vinyl lattice (like for climbing vines) mounted on the wall holds all my quilting stencils. I use small S-hooks on it and wow, it holds hundreds of stencils.
Coffee filters to hold thread snips and lil junk on the sewing table and on the longarm machine.
Small paintbrushes to clean the bobbin area on sewing machine and longarm, and bigger paintbrushes to clean the rails on the longarm frame.
School chalk for marking, and the cheaper the halk, the easier it brushes off. I like the Dollar store chalk.
Batting scraps for brushing off the school chalk markings.
Clear plastic sheet protectors and dry erase markers from Staples. I take a photo of my quilt and a photo of my block, closeup. Put the prints of the photographs in the plastic sheet protectors, and then draw quilting designs on them with dry erase marker. I erase the designs with batting scraps. I just keep auditioning different quilting designs until I find what I like the best.
#135
Super Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Southeast Wisconsin
Posts: 1,070
Instead of red glasses - which I admit are way cool - I use my camera to look at value. I set it for black and white and look at the fabric on the LCD screen or through the view finder. Can take a picture if I want, even!
#136
No one has mentioned (or maybe I missed it) pizza boxes to separate projects....easy to stack....and to carry. I went to our local pizza restaurant asn asked if they would sell me a couple and she asked if that was all I wanted; so I said to make it 4. She gave them to me FREE.
I don't have room on my wall for a spool holder, but I have lots of shelves, so I use a graduated spice shelf (one that has 3 levels and telescopes out from maybe 6" to 12" that I found at the Container Store) for stacking my thread spools and cones.
Great idea to insert a Q-tip for stacking a matching bobbin on top of the smaller spools. I haven't mastered a method for matching up cones and bobbins yet....any suggestions?
I don't have room on my wall for a spool holder, but I have lots of shelves, so I use a graduated spice shelf (one that has 3 levels and telescopes out from maybe 6" to 12" that I found at the Container Store) for stacking my thread spools and cones.
Great idea to insert a Q-tip for stacking a matching bobbin on top of the smaller spools. I haven't mastered a method for matching up cones and bobbins yet....any suggestions?
#137
Originally Posted by leggz48
I don't have room on my wall for a spool holder, but I have lots of shelves, so I use a graduated spice shelf (one that has 3 levels and telescopes out from maybe 6" to 12" that I found at the Container Store) for stacking my thread spools and cones.
Great idea to insert a Q-tip for stacking a matching bobbin on top of the smaller spools. I haven't mastered a method for matching up cones and bobbins yet....any suggestions?
Great idea to insert a Q-tip for stacking a matching bobbin on top of the smaller spools. I haven't mastered a method for matching up cones and bobbins yet....any suggestions?
#138
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: League City, Texas
Posts: 504
We quilters are so inventive. I love finding uses for unexpected items that were originally for another use.
Originally Posted by quilt gramma
Ok I use the same things above as another quilter posted and my huby and girlfreind laughed at me with my miners light on my head but it does work if you cant see too good when hand stiching or ripping seams out ... So glad i am not alone with my house tools in my quilting room... I too have a magnetic dish and a telescopic wand to pick up my needles on the floor . I am a Gadget girl ..
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