Helping a Quilting Wife
05-16-2011, 05:29 PM
#11
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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How about a design board! Go to your local Lowes or Home Depot and ask for Homosote, it is a board made out of compressed recycled newspaper. Homosote is a name brand I have heard, Lowes had it but didn't call it that, but the guy knew exactly what I was talking about. Buy a large good quality flannel sheet(preferably white so it doesn't interfere with the colors she's designing with) and staple it around to be back of the board. Hang it on the wall and she can move her blocks around the wall without pins, as the cotton fabric sticks to the flannel and she can also use pins to tack patterns and other things to the board while she is working a project! I love mine, and use it constantly.
05-16-2011, 05:32 PM
#12
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: RVing in USA and Canada
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Ok, how about a drive, picnic and end up at a quilt shop to browse. I love the rides my hubby and I take. Oh,oh wait... how about a massage???? I love a nice upper back massage after sitting at the sewing machine :)
05-16-2011, 05:37 PM
#15
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Location: north east
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Originally Posted by MZStitch
How about a design board! Go to your local Lowes or Home Depot and ask for Homosote, it is a board made out of compressed recycled newspaper. Homosote is a name brand I have heard, Lowes had it but didn't call it that, but the guy knew exactly what I was talking about. Buy a large good quality flannel sheet(preferably white so it doesn't interfere with the colors she's designing with) and staple it around to be back of the board. Hang it on the wall and she can move her blocks around the wall without pins, as the cotton fabric sticks to the flannel and she can also use pins to tack patterns and other things to the board while she is working a project! I love mine, and use it constantly.
My suggestion would be a peg board to hang rulers, thread and scissors and things off of.
I think you are a wonderful husband and she will appreciate anything you do for her. Good for you! :thumbup:
05-16-2011, 05:46 PM
#17
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: La Grande, OR
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Originally Posted by MyWifeMadeME
Although I help put up shelves for fabric, look for months for a good table the right size and then customize it for height, etc.... any suggestions that I might surprise my wife with?? You know, something out of the blue... a complete surprise???
05-16-2011, 05:49 PM
#19
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Jonesborough Tn
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Wow!! Lots of ideas... I have surprised her with a trip to the hot springs and a massage... driven 150 miles to Mary Jo's in Gastonia, NC just so she can look for fabric, and several others,,, BUT, look at all the other ideas!!!! THANKS!!!
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