Household items turned quilting notions?
10-16-2010, 11:01 AM
#301
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Gosh, as I look around my quilting room I see tons of things I use that are re-purposed from the kitchen or garage or someplace else. I use an old wooden silverware caddy for keeping my important go-to tools in. It's right on my sewing table and has a handle so everything is transportable. I also use the wooden picks as stillettos, but I buy the short cocktail ones so I don't have to break them. I use a hand me down computer desk for baskets that hold all my larger items like rolls of fusible interfacing, lots of large plastic baggies, just uncountable amounts of stuff. Plus it has a rolling shelf which makes it super handy. Above it I use kitchen hooks to hold things I've bought that come in a package with a hole in it for hanging. That way I can see it all when I need it. I cover DH's large shoe boxes in pretty used wrapping paper and use them to hold patterns in their envelopes. My books are all stored on a rolling two sided library book truck (wagon) bought at a used library equipment sale. It rolls wherever I need it to be, and stores every one of my quilting books even though I have a ton of them. I found a very heavy duty cheese server with a cutting board in it (brand new condition, but in a thrift store for two dollars.) It has compartments for rows of Ritz and Saltine crackers. I super glued a small cutting mat on the board part, and keep a rotary cutter, small scissors, pin cushion, and other tiny things like needles, etc. This goes all over the house with me when I want to sit and cut small blocks or squares of fabric. I've never seen anything so perfectly suited for this task, and yet it's for serving cheese. There are many more items like these in my room, but it would take forever to list them. I'm a thrift shop, garage sale, junkie. 8-)
10-16-2010, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by featherweight
Originally Posted by rainbowquilt
Originally Posted by prairiequeen
Dryer sheet for running my thread through when hand sewing.Love this topic!Will keep watching.
10-16-2010, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Sunshine
I keep a white plastic spoon in my storage can next to my machine. I hold it behind the machine needle; I can actually see the hole in the needle and thread it on the first try.
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10-16-2010, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Bev
... I found a very heavy duty cheese server with a cutting board in it (brand new condition, but in a thrift store for two dollars.) It has compartments for rows of Ritz and Saltine crackers. I super glued a small cutting mat on the board part, and keep a rotary cutter, small scissors, pin cushion, and other tiny things like needles, etc. This goes all over the house with me when I want to sit and cut small blocks or squares of fabric. I've never seen anything so perfectly suited for this task, and yet it's for serving cheese....
Hi Bev- Could you post a picture of this so we all can be on the lookout for a similar one. Sounds like this would be great and I could really use something like this also. Thanks!
10-16-2010, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by dgmoby
Originally Posted by SNUGQUILT
I haven't actually used this yet, but since I'm in the midst of redoing my sewing room....I asked my DH for a peg board, but he didn't think I'd be happy with it (pegs coming out, etc.)...he suggested just penny nails in the wall...my idea...cover a board (any size you want) with fabric, THEN put the nails in that...much prettier, and sill EXTREMELY useful...I'm thinking my tools, patterns, thangle packages, endless possibilities! :)
I use it so much, that I expanded the one 2'x4' area to fill an entire wall - more like a LQS. Having a small room that holds a lot, including a longarm, makes it invaluable. My large one holds patterns, all my longarming templates, rulers and tools, rolls of paper/interfacing, all large spools of thread (about 200), oil, and a multitude of other things. I have have some of the very long pegs put across the top, with acrylic sheets on them for shelves. Then I placed some magazine holders with my magazines I wanted to keep, and covered boxes to hold zippers, buttons, extra marking pens/pencils, and other things that are small. I adore my pegboard! Liking that one pegboard wall so much, I created an additional pegboard space near my cutting table for all those tools (rotary cutters, scissors, etc.) and other supplies that hang up. 'It's a good thing,' as Martha says :)
Debbie in Austin
10-16-2010, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Bev
Originally Posted by featherweight
Originally Posted by rainbowquilt
Originally Posted by prairiequeen
Dryer sheet for running my thread through when hand sewing.Love this topic!Will keep watching.
10-16-2010, 01:26 PM
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Yes, the cereal boxes for templates, never throw away a piece of cardboard or any clear plastic container that you can remove the labels from. They are useful in ways you can't imagine. The tissue boxes for machine-side catchers too. What a great lot of info. :)
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