It's made from wood, is kind of flat, maybe 1/2" or so wide. I don't know how long or how thick, but it is used to push out corners when turning something right-side out. I've done notions searches on several sites and can't find it. Did I dream it up?

I just use a chop stick or wood pencil (usually the eraser side).

There is a tool to do it. I know someone will remember the name....

Sounds like a stiletto to me.

I have one but it's made out of clear plastic...it's long like a chop stick.

No, it isn't a stiletto. It's wider and flat. Imagine a tongue depresser that comes to a point rather than rounder but made from a much less flexible wood.

I use a large...size 15 knitting needle for this.

You can use a shish kabob skewer to do that if you can't get to a LQS, Hancock's, Hobby Lobby or Joann's to pick one up. Hancock's and Joann's have 50% off all their quilting notions thru Monday.
Are you talking about a wooden presser?

Try a point turner

I'm wondering if you are thinking of a point turner that Eleanor Burns uses....but I believe it's plastic. I use a bobkin.

bamboo
http://www.createforless.com/Collins...utm_medium=cse
plastic
http://www.hancockfabrics.com/Point-...VVviewprod.htm

Same here or a knitting needle, the really long ones.

It's called a point turner and it's usually made of bamboo or ceramic. I got a couple at Jo-Ann's. good luck

You really don't want to use a stiletto or something too sharp because it could poke right through your corner point. I use something that is totally free-- when you purchase a gallon of milk that comes in a plastic container quite often the handle hold is not totally cut out. That little piece of plastic is a total gem that works perfectly and doesn't cost anything.

Thanks so much for your help. I knew I could count on The Board. It's terrible when the mind starts to go!! I could describe that I needed the tool to push out the points on corners, but do you think I could think of the simple term "Point Turner?" I need a new brain. Thanks again for the help.

I use That Purple Thang

http://www.hancockfabrics.com/That-P...VVviewprod.htm

There is the point turner,
and then there is the purple thangy that pushes, pulls etc

I use the tip of my hemostat.

Sounds to me like the other end of a hera marker. I use it to push corners out.

Is this what you are talking about?
It is a pointer turner.
I use it when I make Dresden plates.

It sounds like something you would use to "finger press" the fabric. I've seen them in Clotilda's catalog.

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Me too!! Love my purple thang!!!

me too...best thing out there!

I believe its a bone folder book binders use them for sharp edges. there is a round end and a pointed end.

I use a point turner. I got mine at JoAnn's.

This sounds like a wooden iron. Does it have a slanted end that tapers towards the other end? If so, it's a wooden iron.

I love my "Purple Thang" so much I bought another one in case I lose the first!

Sounds like a "wooden iron"

I use a wooden stick that Nail technicians use...works great...

I have one and bought it for finger pressing as opposed to be used for turning corners. It is made from wood and it about 4"long and 1" or 1.5" wide at the base and a point at the top. I believe I got it from Clover but, can't say for sure.

Mine is wood and looks like it might be bamboo, round on one end, pointed on the other, hole in round end. Have no idea where I got it or when, but use it often.

I use a dowel that I sharped in the pencil sharpener, but not to a sharp point. Works very well.

I don't know what it is called today, but I have had for years a tool called a bodkin. It is metal with a small ball on one end and an eyelet on the other end. The ball end is used to turn corners, and the other end helps guide elastic or ribbon thru a casing. In my day every self-respecting seamstress had one. I think they still make them. They are inexpensive and should be at a good notions store.
Happy quilting
Severna

and the milk jug thing is wonderful for creasing a seam or Scrap booking LOL

have you checked on Clotilde.com that site has lots of different tools, just do a search when u go to her site

It is an orange wood cuticle stick. I have one on my sewing table all the time, pointy on one end and flat on the other. You can buy them at any Walgreen's, but be sure to get the good one. Edie

I would give you a little of my brain but it's almost gone too....LOL (wait..it's not a lauhing matter)

Oh yeah I have one of those from years ago!

I found a plastic one at WalMart in scrapbooking area: a Martha Stewart paper creaser.

Try the end of a paint brush. You know, one of those paint by number ones.

Try folding the fabric into the seam instead of poking it in. Fold along the seam line on one side of the corner. Then fold the other, again on the seam line and the corner will lie flat upon the other folded side. Put the folded corner between your fingers and turn the corner onto itself. This should make those seams lie flat when turned right side out. If you are just poking those seams into the corner, you will end up with a fat corner. I use this method and then a heavy pointed needle or a dull machine needle (that's what those are for!) to sort of pull that out then from the outside to create a really sharp corner. Works for me anyhow.

How about a thingey! LOL!