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    Old 03-21-2015, 07:52 AM
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    Good advice all around. Isn't this board wonderful?!!!!!
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    Old 03-21-2015, 08:18 AM
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    Originally Posted by Boston1954
    I have plastic markers that my sister gave me. They say what row and block they are, and get pinned to each block. Then iI write on a paper what direction I am counting in so that I do not get confused.
    The ones I made look like yours, except mine are art foam, and written in permanent marker.
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    Old 03-21-2015, 10:20 AM
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    I pin papers with the row and columns marked (1A, 1B, etc.). I am tempted to start using my frixion pens.
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    Old 03-21-2015, 10:38 AM
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    I made 12 of Lori Holt's portable design boards - they work perfectly for scrappy blocks.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nSZtoionpA

    When it gets to the stage of sewing the blocks together, I use stickers to mark the rows.
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    Old 03-21-2015, 10:44 AM
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    Originally Posted by carolynjo
    Good advice all around. Isn't this board wonderful?!!!!!
    I agree 100%. This board is wonderful and this particular thread had so many good ideas. This is one of my trouble areas and one reason I hesitate to make a complicated quilt.
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    Old 03-21-2015, 11:30 AM
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    I use my phone or IPad to take a pic and use that to refer to. It's so much easier for me than pins or some sort of labeling system.
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    Old 03-21-2015, 11:47 AM
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    I have been pinning small post-it notes to mark blocks. But I love the blue painters tape idea---I have a couple of rolls handy and bet they will stick fine without pins.
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    Old 03-21-2015, 12:11 PM
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    I have some wooden spring clothes pins which I have numbered. I always put them on the left of the rows.
    It has worked great for me.
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    Old 03-21-2015, 12:24 PM
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    Originally Posted by imsewnso
    I pin them together as I take them off the wall and put them back on the wall when I am finished sewing that seam.
    I use the sticky notes to label rows, placing the sticky on the top left of each row, then I basically do the same thing (except I use the bed). I figure that's one way to get more exercise ) -- walking from bed to sewing machine and back to bed again.
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    I use "flower" pins. Use permanent marker to put letters on the peach colored ones and numbers on the turquoise ones. Keep them in a special pin cushion, in order.
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