Any non-sewing items that you use for quilting?
06-05-2011, 06:05 AM
#61
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Originally Posted by the casual quilter
I use a gizmo from Loews to store my worn out rotary cutting blades. It's called a Contain-it. It's a round (perfect size for the 45 mm blades), plastic container about 4 inches high with a soft plastic lid with a slit across the top. I just pop the blades thru the slit until I have enough to take in for recycling.
Thanks.
06-05-2011, 06:29 AM
#63
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Originally Posted by dallen4350
Originally Posted by grann of 6
Someone started a thread on this a few weeks ago. She was going to make a list and post it somewhere along the way. Try doing a search of topics and see if you can find it. There were some great ideas listed, among them mine using chop sticks for tube turners, stilletos, etc.
06-05-2011, 06:44 AM
#65
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I use large binder clips when layering my quilts for pin basting. I lay the backing down making sure it is smooth and taught, then binder clip it onto my cutting table, then do the same w/the batting and then the top. The clips hold it in place until all the pins are secured.
I also use the binding combs (the plastic things you see on some business proposals) to store my bobbins. I got them at Staples. they are very portable and they keep the thread from being snarled.
Marie
I also use the binding combs (the plastic things you see on some business proposals) to store my bobbins. I got them at Staples. they are very portable and they keep the thread from being snarled.
Marie
06-05-2011, 06:46 AM
#66
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Location: SW WI
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One of those extendable magnets. Seems everything I drop ends out either behind something or rolls in back of something. Sometime my pins fall out of a project too and end out on the floor behind my machine, great for picking those up too
06-05-2011, 07:21 AM
#68
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The main things?
I glued a little advertising magnet on my machine, magnet side up, and drop my pins onto it as I pull them out.
I have a portable reading light with a flexible neck and a clip-thingy to hold it in place. I clip it to the top of my machine and the light is the right height to for my needle and sewing (every little bit of light helps!) When I'm not sewing, it goes back on my book-in-progress.
Post-its to write the row number/block positions.
All sorts of recycled plastic containers.
I glued a little advertising magnet on my machine, magnet side up, and drop my pins onto it as I pull them out.
I have a portable reading light with a flexible neck and a clip-thingy to hold it in place. I clip it to the top of my machine and the light is the right height to for my needle and sewing (every little bit of light helps!) When I'm not sewing, it goes back on my book-in-progress.
Post-its to write the row number/block positions.
All sorts of recycled plastic containers.
06-05-2011, 07:30 AM
#70
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Idaho
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Another thought - I have a lot of shelves in my closet and at a garage sale this weekend, I picked up 10 small plastic boxes about 8 X 10 X about 5 inches deep - or so and came home and sorted projects into them and put them on the shelves. Room looks nicer now. When my husband used the pvc pipe to extend my table, he put a solid dowel inside the pipe to make it much more steady. Then he put an adhesive tape on the leg and pulled the pvc pipe over it. Wow - a really solid table for so little $$$.
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