I made a list of all the hints so far.
PAINTER’S TAPE
*Roll it around your hand to make a circle, gummy side out, then stick it on sewing table as a thread catcher.
*Use a roll of tape around your hand to pick up small threads on fabric after seam ripper.
*Use the sticky side to clean threads & lint from quilt after quilting.
*Mark rulers for cutting.
*Lengthen or widen stabilizer.
*tape down topper stabilizer when embroidering.
*Tape on hoop to make it tighter.
*Mark straight lines for quilting eg crosshatching or chenille quilts.
*Mark seam width on machine all the way to the front of the machine– won’t leave sticky gum on machine.
*tape backing to table or floor when making quilt sandwich.
*Use on back of ruler to prevent it from sliding.
*Use tiny pieces on the back of a block to put it on a wall to photograph OR as a makeshift display wall.
*Mark cut pieces eg length of grain on cut triangles.
*Tack paper with quilting or paper piecing design to table under golden threads paper taped over it for tracing.
*Stabilize bias edges of pieces – place slightly farther than ¼” from the seam you’ll sew.
*Use tiny strips to tape thread ends of bobbins.
*Tape down Magic Slider for free motion quilting.
*Mark smaller squaring up measurements on a larger square ruler.
*Mark a ruler for fussy cuts.
*Mark design wall with outline of your quilt.
*For sewing HSTs: mark needle lines all the way to the front of the machine.
*Cut small triangles to mark cutting slots on June Tailor Shape Cut Ruler.
*Mark lines on ironing board to square up blocks.
*Tape Angler 2 to machine.
*Write #s, ABCs on pieces of tape and stick them to blocks to mark rows and block placement in your quilt.
*Mark cutting board to check for squaring up with 2 pieces cut to the size of the unfinished block, eg for 10” block, 2 10-1/2” pieces, 10-1/2” apart.
*Tape directions to sewing table.
*The ‘off’ brands of tape don’t stick as well as the Scotch brand.
*Stick a piece o your arm to remind yourself the iron is on.
*Mark where you stopped stitching or machine quilting.
*Longarmers – when you’re ready to start a new row of FMQ, move the machine forward until it hits and tells you it can’t go beyond that point. Mark that place with tape.
*Longarmers – Mark the plastic over the pantograph where the starting and stopping points are.