Grannies G

[ATTACH=CONFIG]597371[/ATTACH]For those of us doing ruler work the rulers are super
expensive especially when we don’t know which ones we will really use. So I did a little experiment today. The circle rulers I have are smaller than what I may want to use. So what do I have that is at least 1/4” high. Plates won’t work they are not high enough and slippery. Now my day starts with coffee. Yep the lid is high enough. So here is my experiment. I do have to say placement needs to be with the edge down Therese the hopping foot slips under. Not good.

JanieH

Now that is really clever! Thank you for sharing the idea!

annievee

Very clever, thank you for sharing !

Onebyone

Neat idea but I need the needle stops on my quilting rulers.

Tartan

The rulers can be pricey. Your coffee lid is working so go for it.

quilting cat

What about us non-coffee drinkers? Guess we'd better make friends with more neighbors, so we can beg a lid to try this!

rryder

Several cds glued together makes a good circle ruler as well.

Rob

SusieQOH

Thanks for the very clever idea!

Cari-in-Oly

Great thinking! Instead of paying the high cost for a straight edge ruler I asked a glass shop to cut me a 3"x14" piece of thick plexiglass, cost me less than $14.

Cari

sewnuts321

Because I am a novice beginning to learn about ruler work on a borrowed longarm I experimented to find a way to be more secure for not getting the ruler into machine needle area. I only needed about 6 inches of straight lines for a snowball block and used a paperback book as my "ruler". It helped get nice straight short lines for my stitch in the ditch project.