Gadgets you feel are worth the money.
01-04-2012, 03:38 AM
#51
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 241
What do you do with the half of a clothespin for ironing? (wooden ironing thing)?
Originally Posted by sewmary
My new year's resolution: no more gadgets that are one use and collect dust. I will walk by all the gadget demos at quilt shows and not even stop to look and will never buy one online unless at least ten of you recommend it.
After all the money spent on gadgets, my favorite and most useful and cheapest are: Bamboo chopsticks (stilleto use and poking out corners after turning) and one half a spring clothespin ( wooden ironing thing).
After all the money spent on gadgets, my favorite and most useful and cheapest are: Bamboo chopsticks (stilleto use and poking out corners after turning) and one half a spring clothespin ( wooden ironing thing).
01-04-2012, 03:40 AM
#52
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 156
My new bobbin cam! I'm a long armer! And was constantly having trouble with thread tension! The bobbin cam takes all the guess work out of the mix! There's a small flat screen that mounts on top of the machine so you are able to see the frame of work, and the micro camera( so stinking little it almost hurts)! Is mounted next to the needle on the underside of the machine. I'm having a second camera mounted to the right side of the needle, so I can watch in both directions! For more information look in the blog posts on the quilting board, and contact information. You will never be sorry!!!
01-04-2012, 03:51 AM
#53
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
Posts: 2,795
My all time favorite notion is "The Cutting Gizmo" from www.thegypsyquilter.com. It stand about 6" high and is plastic. In the middle at the top is a razor. This is for strip sewing. After I've done all my strip sewing, I lower the threads between the fabric pieces and it slices the threads apart. Perfect. I don't have to get out scissors or a rotary cutter. I put it to the left of my sewing machine and just turn my chair when I'm done sewing and cut them all apart. It's saves so much time.
01-04-2012, 04:09 AM
#54
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Aurora IL
Posts: 116
My vote is for the scapel blade seam ripper with replaceable blades, my Ott light, my needle threader for my serger, needle threader on my sewing machine, my brass stilletto, and last but not least is my needle trolley. By the way a needle trolley looks like a thimble with a needle soldered to it, it works like a stilletto but does not have to be picked-up and sat down like a stilleto. I would not have been able to complete my nephews dww quilt in time without it.
01-04-2012, 04:34 AM
#55
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: new york state
Posts: 10,167
I am such a sucker. I just spent time at the link jcrow gave looking at all the"things" I might need. I do like the idea of the cutting Gizmo. Espically right now while I am making all these fluing geese.
01-04-2012, 06:20 AM
#59
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Fayetteville, GA
Posts: 2,879
Originally Posted by Normabeth
I am a fairly new quilter, have had problems sewing on bindings - I purchased the Binding ruler and completed binding 24 table runners and three quilts for Christmas - I LOVE this ruler.
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