I cut an old mouse pad up and use one piece as a pin cushion on one side of my sewing machine - another at my cutting station. I could probably glue it to my machine, but I could hear her saying, "Don't want no glue on my perfect body!"

I use cat liter buckets to carry my work back and forth to work. Now the kids all want one to keep their projects in. I will have to get my neighbor to save me some. I don't have a cat.

We're in the midst of a self move packing frenzy. Instead of using old newspaper, we purchased ($2) ends of rolls from the printing company. I use an old warped cutting board and my rotary cutter to cut the paper to the right size for whatever item needs to be cushioned. So far - 40 boxes and counting!!! First time ever doing it ourselves, the military always took care of our moves previously.

Discarded quilt batting..just a little piece, beside sewing machine to catch trimmed threads. Sticks like a magnet. when through sewing just wipe up threads that missed in the sewing flurry and toss in garbage!

Chopsticks! Sharpen in pencil sharpener, or not. Great for stiletto or for turning and poking out corners. Also pizza boxes for projects.

Shoeboxes for scraps - labeled 'blue',yellow, strips, 2"squares, etc

Yes pizza boxes ... I cover them with contact plastic and insert a long shoe lace for a tie.

Perfect for taking projects to the LQS to look for more fabric!

I use the edge of my 6.5" squaring ruler to "scrape" my cutting mat to clean it (after which I wash with damp cloth).

I use the tip of my seam ripper to guide that last bit of fabric through the machine evenly (cause I work a lot with small pieces).

We use part of a "retired" cutting mat that had warped and a rotary cutter to cut seal a meal bags.

Use another part of that warped cutting mat instead of buying an expensive rotary mat. I cut a square about 25" square - and it moves around on top of my big mat very easily without the rotary thing under it.