I use a recycled plastic tray from a microwave meal as a small waste basket on my cutting table. It's large enough to catch small scraps or threads tossed it's way. I also use them as paint palettes. Easy to clean up and if paint dries too hard in it to wash out, I don't feel terrible about throwing it away. Mr. Clean Magic Eraser for cleaning your iron. Moisten the sponge, put on a towel folded over a couple time and push the iron over the sponge. It works with a warm or cold iron. I use a chop stick for pushing out corners on a turned item. I bought a length of round edge wood trim to use as a pressing aid. I cut it into 2 lengths - one about 18" and the other about 4'. Lay it on my ironing surface with the flat side down. Lay a many seamed fabric over the wood, like OBW's, wrong side up and press the seams open. The fabric falls down to both sides and your iron only touches the seam you are wanting to press. I use large squeeze clamps to hold my quilt sandwich to the table, while pinning the layers together. Covered recycled margarine tubs for holding extra pins, small paper binder clips (I use these to hold strips of fabric together when paper piecing) or other small items. Others have mentioned washable school glue and glue sticks - I use the glue sticks more often. When adding binding, I wrap it around a TP cardboard roll, thread a long shoelace thru , tie the ends together and hang it around my neck. The binding easily unrolls as it's sewn to the quilt. It doesn't twist or fall on the floor. If you have lots of extra binding length, you can leave it on the roll, just stick a pin in the end to secure it.