I use wood corn holders--the ones they use to spear corn on the cob in restaurants--perfect to help start peeling Wonder Under !

I use a grapefruit spoon to close curved safety pins. Works great and saves my fingertips...

I don't know what it's called, but my daughter who took Japanese and Chinese, used this very thin paper with small grid lines inside of large grid lines, and the sheets are about 12x18, she used them to practice her writing, but now i use them to graph my quilts and copy patterns, they are like onion skin.
Use round needle nose pliers for grabbing a needle I can't pull out.
use a table cloth with felt backing for my design board.
Use a headlight that workers use around their heads to HQ ( always have the light in right spot).

Haven't tried that but sounds like it will work so will be trying it soon.

I have a small collection of nice cookie and canape cutters which make great templates for quilting designs.

Tweezers are very handy, especially if you've got little bits of paper stuck to the back of foundation paper piecing.

I use a painted wooden flatware/napkin holder (for picinics) for keeping up with my rotary cutters and scissor. I also use a wooden block with slits cut into it, to hold my rulers. It was origanially made to hold playing cards, but it works great for my rulers. I also have a bigger one that was the base for a recipe book holder. I just took off the piece of plexiglass that was attached that covered the book.

Clear iodine works better on warts than duct tape.

I use the plastic hangers that are flat with a hanger for my binding waiting for the quilt. My socks from Pennys came on these hangers. [ATTACH=CONFIG]405788[/ATTACH]

Great thread...........reminded me of some things, as the pool noodles. I too incorporate many of the mentioned items. However, I wish there was a picture of the Orvis fishing thing mentioned by Vernal??? One additional thing I use is, fish tank filter tubing cut in short lengths to put on the tips of my small scissors ........calla

Forgot to mention that I use the rubber finger tips purchased from Office Max for FMQ