Originally Posted by DA Mayer
I waste alot of thread because I want a full bobbin when I start, I usually hold the thread and let the bobbin drop and roll until the bobbin is empty. I think I got drop and roll from teaching first aid and what do you do when you are on fire. Maybe I should buy some more thread. I really don't like when my thread colors don't match so I think that is why I get rid of the bit that is leftover on the bobbin.
I also get very messy when I sew, among other things (should see my desk), and I love to clean up the mess and be all tidy for a day or two, sometimes I make people look at my clean room.............
oh well, now if we are going to talk idiosyncrasies AND cleaning...I could say quite a bit.
I think your either a cleaner or your not.
Then there are the slobs. you have to be really, really bad to be a slob.
I don't think too many quilters qualify, bc how ya gonna manage to make a quilt if you are that bad?
Now, about those of us that have to have 'room' and order to create:
Here is why I don't ever feel that I have enough room, and why I am constantly bugged about it:
I collect paint cards...even when I am not buying paint, lol.
Sometimes I do though, and I am making other purchases, even in that dept. I use lots of masking tape!
I am a famous taper, tier, gluer, clipper, binder...rubber bands, tacks, gold prong thingy's, paper clips, binder clips, clothespins...if it was invented to hold things together, I probably own it, and it is in home-cave.
Bungee cords, lol. Extension cords. String? pul-leaze, have I got string.
Ribbon? cords. belting. elastic. snaps. metal trouser thingies, zippers.
ok.
I could go on and on about being compulsive about habits and doing weird stuff.
I have to always put two pins in the top of a piece of material, so later I won't wonder which is the direction of the grain, and which way is crossgrain. Have to know!
I have to always keep fabrics folded neatly. If it has tails and such, I creatively fold. Some ppl will trim and put those pieces in a scrap box or bag. Nope. Like to keep like fabrics together, as much as possible.
Won't use one of those coiled tape measures. You know, the plastic ones that you roll back up...they can stretch from being rolled tight etc. and not be accurate.
Always have to have a cloth on my clear acrylic extension table for setting tools down on, so it won't get scratched.
Have to keep snips of selvedge edge: 2.
One for my 'record' book, i.e., catalog that holds receipts, page by page with dates and descriptions, and yardages of all fabrics. I use pattern tape to tape a snippet sample of the fabric near the number of that purchase on receipt.
the other snippet gets pinned to the tag on the fabric. That way after i wash that fabric, I can put the right tag back on it. Whats on the tag?
It's either from the store with time, yardage, price and my own notes...manufacturer, description, and catalog number and page, and number of item on receipt or I make my own. A book on a stamp! :roll:
yeah, if I go on, your all gonna find out, why my other nick is quiltnCRAZY! ttfn, mousie :wink: