GREAT thread! Thanks for starting it!

Me too Lynnie!!

http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...d-t220591.html

Here are more from a thread I remembered from a while back.

This is what Harriet Hargrave taught me in a class: "Use the best fabrics and batting that you can afford".

I try to clean my machine after every second bobbin. Now I only ever fill two bobbins. Helps me keep on track.

Use a toilet brush (new of course) to pick up threads on a carpeted surface. It works!

Press seams so they will nest. Makes sewing any intersection much easier and neater.
Make backing a little bigger than quilt top.
Make sure backing is flat, then the batting, then the top.
Start pinning sandwich together in the center, and work out to the edges.
All I can think of right now.

I used cloth diapers and diaper pins on my children. I always ran the pin through my hair before pinning it in the diaper and it easily ran through the cloth of the diaper. The oils in your hair work wonders on needles and pins.

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Back in the day.........before disposable diapers, we used to run the diaper pins through our hair to make them easy to get through the diaper. Brings back memories!
Phyllis

I used a bar of soap for diaper pins. Haven't tried that for needles and pins. I wonder if it would work. I do use a sliver of soap as a marking tool.