household items used for quilting
#101
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 311
I get the shipping cartons for blueberries and strawberries in the box bin at Costco. They are relatively flat--4 or 5" high and they stack. I can stack 6 or 7 high and have a separate layer for projects, thread sets, etc.
I put a memory foam bath mat under my machine. It absorbs vibration and is a great pincushion.
Men's trimming electric razors (or a hairdressers clipper with a 40 or 50 blade) can be used to frog (same as Peggy's Eraser) but lots cheaper.
I save clear packaging from who knows what to use with a Sharpie to trace designs. Much like using a photo album clear page.
Swimming pool noodles to wrap up finished quilts to take to show-and-tell. Wrap with selvedges.
Tyvek envelopes or Tyvek from the dumpster of a house under construction for art quilts. Paint on it with luminere paint and use a heat gun to scrunch it!
Magic Eraser to clean an iron.
Coloring books to get "cheater" designs for appliqué or art quilts---especially Dinosaurs!!!
Turkey baster to squirt water into iron…or a 2oz syringe!
I put a memory foam bath mat under my machine. It absorbs vibration and is a great pincushion.
Men's trimming electric razors (or a hairdressers clipper with a 40 or 50 blade) can be used to frog (same as Peggy's Eraser) but lots cheaper.
I save clear packaging from who knows what to use with a Sharpie to trace designs. Much like using a photo album clear page.
Swimming pool noodles to wrap up finished quilts to take to show-and-tell. Wrap with selvedges.
Tyvek envelopes or Tyvek from the dumpster of a house under construction for art quilts. Paint on it with luminere paint and use a heat gun to scrunch it!
Magic Eraser to clean an iron.
Coloring books to get "cheater" designs for appliqué or art quilts---especially Dinosaurs!!!
Turkey baster to squirt water into iron…or a 2oz syringe!
#102
#104
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 9,714
I use storage boxes that I buy at Sears for my specialty threads, needles packs, misc notions, buttons and all the small things that need to be corralled. I also have a small plastic basket from the office supply store to hold my markers, rippers.thimbles and other small stuff on the table top. I have some small storage drawers that stack and also a set of six pull out drawers that mount on the wall that I found at the hardware store that are great general storage. Hardware stores have lots of good, cheap storage stuff.
#105
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 9,714
Oh, and I forgot one of my favorites. I wanted some pattern weights to used when cutting fabric so I went to Sears (again) and found some large washers. They work perfectly and cost next to nothing. Score!
#107
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: western australia
Posts: 1,793
I had to laugh this could be my cat big fat and lovable and looks justthe same.
he too would hold down my fabric but I don't let them in my sewing room, mind you he holds down the bed quilt down very well especially when I am trying to turn over, LOL
he too would hold down my fabric but I don't let them in my sewing room, mind you he holds down the bed quilt down very well especially when I am trying to turn over, LOL
#108
Chopsticks, and bamboo skewers. A lap desk that is perfect for cutting out small pieces, A recipe or cookbook holder to have any instructions or pictures that I need in an upright position so I can refer to it often, Of course Freezer paper, waxed and parchment, a magnetic bowl to hold the metal bobbins in, A medical syringe with no needle to accurately apply glue, ummmmm, lets see, Can't think of anything else right now.
#109
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: San Joaquin Valley, California
Posts: 829
I have plastic sandwich lunch boxes with feet and other attachments with the name and model number of each machine. I have 7 machines. These stack very well and I don't have guess which machine they belong to.
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