Love this idea and will give it a go. Thanks for sharing.

I use Clear Grip made by Sew Easy. You can remove it if you wish but I've had it on for quite a few years and don't even know it's there anymore. It was a bit on the expensive side but well worth it to stop slipping while cutting.

I took a piece of Masonite just bigger than 9x11 and put padding and then ironing board fabric and wrapped it around and glued it down. Trimmed all the edges close. Then on the back side I glued a fine grit and paper to holding down fabric while marking it. This si portable and gives me a double use. It goes into my kit for classes. I take my portable travel iron and it sits right beside my sewing machine during class. Jan

No, I didn't know this...great idea..thank you!

For those of you who iron with steam.

I was always making a huge mess when trying to refill my iron with water, so finally bought one of those red picnic ketchup bottles. Fill that with water, stick the nozzle down in the fill hole on the iron and wala no more mess!

This is almost the same. I cut a hole in the top of a 35mm film canister and leave it next to my sewing machine for bent or broken pins and needles.

You can use Chinese chop sticks that you get at the restaurant for a stiletto.

When quilting on my longarm machine, I put a strip of blue painters tape across my quilt at the point that I need to stop to prevent "bumping" into the stopping place (the place that my machine head will go no further.) This has shows me not to try to go past that point and have "bump" in my stitching. When finished, I just take it up, roll my quilt, and re-use it on the next pass.
Another tip: I found that one of my medicine bottles for large pills, is exactly the right size to drop my "used" rotary cutter blades into. It can probably hold 50 or more.

Love these two items also. I have a couple BobbinSavers in my drawer!

I'm surprised no one's mentioned using comic book boards to organize smaller pieces of fabric, less than 2 yards... Fold your fabric with selvedges together, then fold that width in half again, and you will end up with just the right size to wrap around the boards and make "mini bolts" of fabric. I recently bought a bookcase to store all my mini bolts on, like books on a shelf. It makes it so much easier to see everything, organized by color.

For the longer length pieces, I wrap them around my long cutting ruler then pull the ruler out. I stack those folded pieces horizontally, like a stack of full-sized bolts. I love being able to see all my fabrics now!