Thanks!!!
I agree!! And if we keep sharing our Ah-Ha's we'll all be better quilters!! Love this board!

Great use of painter's tape! I keep a roll in my sewing bag; it's come in handy a number of times for various things.

Great Idea!!!!!:thumbup:

That's a good one to keep the quarter inch straight! We sometimes get in a hurry and it skitters off and it ends up making a bubble when you press it. Thanks for that!

Been there, and do that also. Only way I can have any hope of keeping it to a 1/4". lol.

Another tip I've seen (via Pinterest) is to use rubber bands around the throat of your machine, ie to the right of the sewing area to guide your fabric against....can use different colours for different widths....and they WONT affect any computerised machines, none of it has to be metal to get magnets to stick to and easily removed when not needed.

Hugs
Naomi

Isn't it a pain when that happens! I hope that my idea helps everyone else.

How nice that you were able to go with your Hubby and get a vacation and a new machine as a bonus.

It was a lot of fun! Maybe not for him because he had to go to meetings but I had a blast!

I keep my pin cushion setting in the hole of a roll of painter's tape on my sewing machine at all times. Those tomatoe cushions fit perfectly inside the core of the tape roll and the tape roll keeps the pincushion from falling off the machine.

Thanks for your Ah..ha moment! I've had that last little bit wander as well, so great solution. I had one of those yesterday when I was taking a paper piecing class. Have you ever had that piece you thought was on there just right MOVE on you? I was doing the freezer paper method and pinning is so much trouble and can distort the paper, but my paper had torn and someone handed me some scotch tape....now I tape the piece I'm going to sew on the opposite side of the seam and it holds the piece in place. Take off the tape, turn the piece and press. I can use the pieces of tape several times before I have to tear off new ones.

When I sewed the purse straps for a tote last year, I used a stack of tape on the seam side and then another on the opposite side of the strap so that I could keep it from wandering off. But that doesn't work so well with wide pieces of fabric.

Cheers, K

I use moleskin too, I don't do much sewing other than quilting now, but I am fortunate to have another machine to do the regular sewing.

Hey Ya'll I got some moleskin today & it works great! I used it on 2 of my machines & on 1 of my apprentices machines. We'll have to get 'em on to the rest of our machines! It works even better than the painters tape. I still use my finger on the left of the pressure foot to keep the final 1/4 inch from wondering!!!