Household items turned quilting notions?
#183
For a quick and easy ironing station...buy a wooden TV tray...wrap the top with batting and staple gun it on the under-side..Then choose a piece of muslin or other cotton and staple it on top of the batting...This is perfect to keep by your sewing machine so you don't have to get up so often to press your seams..The trays are around $10.00....
#184
I used all the things already mentioned, plus used fabric softner sheets for some applique but mostly for Crazy Quilting or Strip sewing, I use it as a backing fabric. I also use the CD's as a base for pincushions or other crafts.
#185
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Hartsburg, Mo
Posts: 309
Originally Posted by Riversong
My hubby uses Copenhagen(snuff in a little round box) YUCK!! BUT,they are the pefect size for used rotary blades. When its full I tape the box and toss it all.
#186
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Hartsburg, Mo
Posts: 309
Originally Posted by nana pat
I am on my third expanding wand magnate from Harbor Freights for picking up dropped pins and needles, I also bought a magnate for holdind nuts and bolts thar has a wrist band that is closed with velcro, also from HF. I love that place.
#188
Originally Posted by Suzan Larrimore
I broke a springed clothes pin in half, use the flat part to open and hand press seams the way I want them to go. It keeps my finger from getting burned.
#189
Member
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Texas
Posts: 92
You can use a spool for this but I have a Pen holder that sits on a desk and holds your Pen at an angle . I put my seam ripper in it and it makes it so easy to separate my chain sewing pieces. Its weighted so it doesn't move around like the spool does
#190
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
Posts: 6,135
I have used pan lids,pizza pans,plates etc.. for marking concentric circles on a quilt. I use a silverware tray in the drawer of my Horn sewing cabinet. I use round chop stick as a spool pin for my Singer 237(it came with no spool pin).
I use a large ceramic mug to hold my pencils,
pens,skinny rulers and rotary cutter, I found it at a thrift shop. Pill bottles are great for taking full bobbins to quilt
classes, they don't unwind on the way to class.
:-D
I use a large ceramic mug to hold my pencils,
pens,skinny rulers and rotary cutter, I found it at a thrift shop.
Its has lots of sentimental value for me,
we had them at home when I was a child.
Both my parents have passed on and it reminds me of them.
I use a large ceramic mug to hold my pencils,
pens,skinny rulers and rotary cutter, I found it at a thrift shop. Pill bottles are great for taking full bobbins to quilt
classes, they don't unwind on the way to class.
:-D
I use a large ceramic mug to hold my pencils,
pens,skinny rulers and rotary cutter, I found it at a thrift shop.
Its has lots of sentimental value for me,
we had them at home when I was a child.
Both my parents have passed on and it reminds me of them.
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