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I was in a class at a quilt retreat and we kept hearing pounding from Susan Cleveland's class next door. We all invaded her class to find out what they were doing.
After seeing the demonstration, we all ran to the onsite quilt shop and bought every whacker that they had in stock! I love mine! :thumbup: |
you know I do like the tool. Maybe $12.00 plus taxes was a bit more than I wanted to pay, I like the silcone (?) type hammer. It is not hard like a regular hammer and I will have it a long time. So yea, I do like it. It does that on the package becareful when pressing with seam as to not to distort the material by pulling and pressing. To use a hard padded surface. Making a pinwheel lapquilt and it will pay for itself just with this I think.
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Originally Posted by yolanda
I used this once in a class and it worked great... later my friend told me she didn't think it was a good idea to "crush" the cotton fibers ... but boy I sure liked smacking those seams down... the back of my quilt looked incredible too... I am too nervous about crushing fibers now to use one.
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Originally Posted by auniqueview
Looks like a great item for hushing quilt police, lol
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I am thinking I may need to tuck it away out of sight, the family has a way of needing a tool from the sewing room time to time. It may not come back, LOL
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I have a tailor's clapper, it works when great when used with heat of the iron to get flat seams. If you have one of the old flat irons it works as a clapper and a hammer. A bacon press works too! I think a tool like the old washing machine wringer to run a block through to flatten the seams would be super cool!
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Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
hhhmmm....thumping the seam..as in breaking down the fibers??
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Originally Posted by Geri B
Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
hhhmmm....thumping the seam..as in breaking down the fibers??
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I bought a white rubber mallet at Joann's. It works great.
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Originally Posted by JeannieBobbin
This story reminds me of working at Christmas with my sister doing commercial decorations. We had thousands of little red birds that always moved around on garlands while moving from the shop to set up requiring us to readjust everyone of them.
Once all install was done, we'd open a pack of birds at the workshop, take a hammer and red bird to the table and then beat it's little head off! Since your hammer works ok therapy is what I would call it. :) |
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