Favorite tool, favorite feature and top of the wish list
#21
My favorite tool is my Paul Metal Petals thread spool holder. I use it all the time. My favorite feature on my Bernina is the drop feed dog switch and my favorite feature on my Singer is the snap on presser feet. On the top of my wish list is a beautiful Koala cabinet for each machine.
#22
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Timmins, Ont. Canada
Posts: 4,683
My favorites are: my creative grids and my brass seam ripper (the best one I have ever used) http://www.pamdamour.com/proportional-scale-clone.html
Favorite feature: auto cutter
Wish list: more creative grids
Favorite feature: auto cutter
Wish list: more creative grids
#25
I love the new needle threader "machine" for hand sewing that they sell now and the jell thimbles. I was gifted a box of the clips to hold the fabric while binding, don't waste your money. Specialty rulers are really fun to use and I have been buying them recently to play with.
#26
current favorite, the clover/fonsporter/daley glue pens for english paper piecing prep. One of those things you always wonder why you didn't think of it yourself. I hold all the clover tools in high regard.
#27
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Somewhere inTexas
Posts: 968
New favorite tool - slide lock ruler. I just got it and love it. My strips are now perfect plus I use it to smooth the quilt sandwich. Best feature on machine - knee lift and needle down.
Want list - bigger sewing room so I can have tables for my machines. I would love to sew on one while embroidery machine is working. I now have to move my ironing board and roller cart to even get in the room.
Want list - bigger sewing room so I can have tables for my machines. I would love to sew on one while embroidery machine is working. I now have to move my ironing board and roller cart to even get in the room.
#28
Hm, my favorite tool at the moment is my superior thread spool holder, I can just go and go with that thing. Favorite machine feature is, well, the simplicity. I have a mechanical bernina from 1980, and I love that its always the way I left it the last time I used it. I had a computerized machine for a couple weeks, and since I too am in a small space, I have to put it away when not in use. It was infuriating that the needle position would reset every time I unplugged it and plugged it back in, I broke SO many needles! Wish list, is a design board.
Btw, those who need small space solutions, I found this ikea table and I have 2 on order. The will 'live' as end tables on either side of our sofa, and when I need them to quilt a bed sized quilt, I'll pull them out and extend the sides for that.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70290223/
Btw, those who need small space solutions, I found this ikea table and I have 2 on order. The will 'live' as end tables on either side of our sofa, and when I need them to quilt a bed sized quilt, I'll pull them out and extend the sides for that.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70290223/
#29
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 16,423
I was gifted a box of the clips to hold the fabric while binding, don't waste your money
#30
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lowell, MA
Posts: 14,083
One of my favorite tools is my 13" rotating cutting mat, which came in so handy when I was making the Disappearing Hourglass quilt from MSQC for this year's family reunion quilt. I also have to add a possible favorite tool which I have not used yet. It's the Fiskars ruler with a handle with a rotary cutter that you press down on, instead of gripping like a regular rotary cutter. I'm surprised my DH bought it for me, however, with my carpal tunnel and painful right shoulder, I'm hoping it will cut down on pain issues when rotary cutting. I had seen it on a couple of tutorials and I just had to have it, so I'll let you know how it works. I considered it my 46th wedding anniversary gift from DH.
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