household items used for quilting
#22
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Join Date: Feb 2014
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Meat wrappers brown one side, and wax other side for applique, and dollar store placemats for template, in lieu of mylard. Electric can opener place by my sewing, it has a magnet for pins, as I remove from fabric just toss up and it holds them.. Then, I have opener ready for lunch.
#23
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Pennsylvania
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I use wooden clothespins (the kind with the spring, not the antique ones) when I'm sewing on my binding; I've almost stopped using pins and instead use Elmer's glue; and I use a chopstick or skewers for lots of miscellaneous tasks.
#28
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: South Central Indiana
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Tonight I was looking for something to use to hang a small wallhanging that has a 1/4 " wooden dowel in a fabric sleeve.
I found a pretty eyeglass chain/holder, slipped the rubber ends over the dowel ends - voila! Quilt hanger!
I found a pretty eyeglass chain/holder, slipped the rubber ends over the dowel ends - voila! Quilt hanger!
#30
My DH is a machinist by trade... and he brought home a really heavy-duty tool box to clean up so he could sell it. I wouldn't let him - I'm using it as MY sewing/quilting tool box. Spools of thread (even some of the larger ones) in the top, and lots of various sized drawers for all kinds of things. It's not going to break like the plastic ones, or tip over like the plastic ones, or get brittle like the plastic ones (gee, do you see a theme here?).
And another great thing (now that we have a new grandbaby arriving soon) is the drawers all LOCK ... with a real key, no less.
BTW, I "confiscated" this from him when we first got married... that's been 31 years now.
And another great thing (now that we have a new grandbaby arriving soon) is the drawers all LOCK ... with a real key, no less.
BTW, I "confiscated" this from him when we first got married... that's been 31 years now.
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