Pick up a small plastic container with a tight fitting lid to put all your old needles, bent pins and dull rotary cutter blades in. Keep it up high, away from little fingers.
Take pictures of your designs up on your design wall and look at them on your computer screen to get a better feel for the finished product.
Use free photo editing software like "Ribbet" to turn your quilt photos into black and white to check your quilts for colour value placement.
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