resource fabricologist

To make your own fine tip glue bottles: Buy 1 bottle of Elmer's WASHABLE school glue and 1 disposable click pencil with a long narrow tip. Take the Elmer's glue bottle and pop the orange top off. Then take a scissors and snip off the white guts that protrude up from the bottle. Then snip a small amount off the top of the orange cap...( a little less than 1/4"). Screw the bottom tip off the pencil and shove it up through the orange cap creating a nice fine tip to the glue bottle. Screw this cap onto the glue bottle and you're ready to go. I put a pin in it when not in use. I use this for binding...esp. bias binding. Works wonderful for putting in zippers too. Apply a fine line of glue and heat set with your iron...doesn't even need pins. And the best part is that it washes out...

Evelynquilts

Thank you for posting this great link !!!

capucine

Thank you for this wonderful link i just learnt so many little tricks it will cetainly help my little hexagon as far as threading needles and keeping the thread in the hole. FANTASTIC the binding and the miter corner double :thumbup: :thumbup:

The Bag Lady

I used the Elmer's glue stick on my last quilt. It goes on purple but dries clear. It held the binding just fine and I did not have any poked fingers when I tacked the binding down, on the back.

Linda71

I found a pack of two small glue bottles for a dollar. They had nice long tips with a small hole. Threw out the glue in the bottle and filled it with washable elmers. Linda

capucine

Greetings to all from Australia, would any water soluble craft glue do the job? I am not sure where i would buy Elmers glue where i live!
Thank you

Quilting Nonnie

I'm sure it would. The whole idea is that it is washable. I've not used Elmer's before, but have used glue sticks, so obviously brand name doesn't matter, just the washability.

Suzy

I find mine at Michael's craft store near the paint section. comes with I believe 3 metal tips and some plastic bottles. Under $ 5.00.

Suzy

VickiM

I use gluesticks...very cheap at the $1 store, 3 to a pack. No waiting for it to dry, no seeping through the fabric, and water soluable. It doesn't gum up my machine needle and can start sewing right away. I press the binding, glue, and repress each area and by the time the quilt is done with this, it's ready to stitch down. I machine sew my binding to the back and bring it to the front, press to just cover the stitching, glue, repress, and sew down. Really cuts down on the amount of time everything takes to do and looks nice.

mayday

was v impressed with this and many of her tuts, but did see on this board that others didn't like the glue as it went hard.