More tips from Bebe!!!!
1. Use a foam pool noodle to roll quilts for storage. They are about 2 3/4 in diameter and 60 inches long. the ones w/ hole in center can be joined w / a 5/8 in. dowel to make a longer roll. to keep ur quilt from touching styrofoam make a fabric slipcover over the noodle.
2. label your stabilizer. Different types of stabilizer look and feel the same. Use a pen write the type on each piece so u will not get them confused.
3. Catch thread snips. Use a small square of batting when sewing or quilting to catch ur thread snips. When full clean it or just throw way.
4. Binding clips. Don't use pins when binding use plastic coated paper clips. Easy to slip on and thread will not get caught on them.

Happy
Quilting!!!!

Piggy backing onto this idea I use the flat hair clips. I started to say "clips for pin curls" but was afraid too many young ladies and men wouldn't understand that term. (Does anyone make pin curls any more?) :lol: Anyway, I had a ton of these left over from my pin curl days and they are now put to good use when I'm hand stitching the binding.

I remember the pin curl days, wish I had saved all those clips. I have bought 4-5 packages of the binding clips from JoAnns, but always use either a coupon or get them when the quilting notions are half price.

Another tip for your cutting mats: when batting or fabric lint get lodged into the mat, I use a nylon scrubber (keep mine with my quilting supplies) to scrub the mat with, helps fairly well.

When making a quilt as a gift, I always make at least one extra block then use that and either some of the other fabric used in the quilt or the backing fabric and make a matching pillow. (pillow also bought on sale or with a coupon) My daughter lucked out and got 2 matching pillows, with her name stitched in the center of the block instead of the tulip.

To keep your quilting squares stored neat and flat...I use pizza boxes..they come in 3 to 4 sizes..great if you got more than one project going....they usually give them to you free! Just label each box and they are easily stackable!

I too use the flat hair clips. Um, I am in my 40s and I have never heard of "flips for pin curls." I'm intensely curious as to what a pin curl is. Is that the adorable curl the ladies used to wear at their temple during the 40s?
~Tiffany

tiffany, i think they called those adorable little curls at the temple "spit curls". don't ask why.
a pin curl is a lock of hair that is curled around your finger and secured with a bobby pin or one of the flat clips like a binder clip. you formed these pin curls when your hair was wet then when it was dry or the next morning just take out the pin and style. then spray with "aqua net" to make sure it didn't move a millemeter all day long. i think the main ingredient in aqua net was shellac.

Thanks nanabird! I thought those curls at the temple were spit curls also. I figured they were called that because usually my grandmother would lick (spit) her finger and then force the curls in, making me hold it until it dried or putting a bobby pin in place to hold it. That was usually before church on Sundays and I was such a tom boy my hair never stayed anywhere. :lol: Thankfully Aqua Net was not something she used a lot of.

Wouldn't the pins holding all those curls poke your head when you were trying to sleep? I used to do rag curls with my girls. That is where you take a 1x6 inch strip of fabric, wrap the wet hair around it like a curler, then sleep in it overnight. It makes the cutest Shirley Temple curls!
~Tiffany

hi tiffany a pin curl is what betty boop has in her haiir ladies used to set there hair every nite what they did was rap their hair around their finger and then they would put bobby pins to hold the curl ,the pins where in a cross shape or x to hold the curl i hope this helps nellie by the way you look very young for forty and you do beauitful work on your quilting nellie

We would wrap the hair around our finger into a circle and pin it until the hair dried. Then we'd brush it out and what you got was what you got. The flat clips were a blessing because they were faster to use than bobby pins. As for comfort they were great. It was those brush rollers we slept on that hurt! Then came the huge plastic rollers. Gave one a crick in the neck, that's for sure. We've certainly come a long ways with our hair dos! I love 'wash n wear' hair styles!

I had to laugh :lol: while reading all your post. It sounds like we are all telling our age :wink: . When one reads this board and understands what one is telling then you must be of the older generation, but if you are reading and not understanding :roll: any of this then asks your mothers:) This is such a great board and everyone is sooooooo nice. I love reading and hearing all the stories and your quilts are out of this world. I have just started to get into the quilting mode. I have always sewn and worked with fabrics. I have made many baby quilts and blankets for the new mothers in our church, but I haven’t been brave enough to try real quilting. I want to do machine quilting.