Originally Posted by Loretta
Thanks Bebe! My favorite tip I sent to Fons and Porter and won a gift subscription. Keep a stack of coffee filters (the large ruffled kind) by your machine and put thread snips in them as mini wastebaskets. When you are done sewing, just remove the top filter and carry to the wastebasket. Save many motions reaching for the wastebasket on the floor.
I remember watching the show that included your tip. I also have lower back problems, so I too have my ironing board set up to where I need to get up tp press, and I have a tiny littl plastic trash can that I can move to where I'm working for the little snippets and threads.
Tiffany: I have used that tip for my blades, also I have used a piece of foil. If that blade has a tiny nick in it, fold a piece of foil 2 or 3 layers thick and run the cutter through it, seems to work.