tip: Did you know,when you prick you finger, and get blood on your quilt, your own saliva,dabbed onto the blood, will remove the blood???? try it , it works every time..

jkacie

That's not really a good idea because what you may be doing is blowing the dust bunnies down into the lower gears which later on can cause you some problems.

Always keep some emergency chocolate in your sewing room LOL or am I the only one? hehehe[/quote]

SSSHHHHHHH!!!!!! No one is supposed to know that one of the crates in my quilting room is full of......yummies! Don't always want to walk downstairs just to get something to keep me going at 2 am!!!! :twisted:

Hydrogen peroxide will dissolve blood. It works to remove even blood that has dried on fabiric. I have used the saliva trick too, but not always are you in a position to use it.

I have one for hand applique. Use a dryer sheet to treat your needle. Just run a threaded needle through a fresh dryer sheet before you knot the thread. It keep it from clinging to itself and making so many tangled up knots. Really works!!!

My Mum had a dressmakersa T-square, love to get my hands on it!
I bought a carpenters T-square years ago.
Works a treat!

Thanks for sharing. I keep a small first aid kit in my sewing closet.

Here is another cleaning tip. The next time you are walking on a beach, pick up a seagull feather. Use it to clean between the thread tension disks. For interior states any large bird feather works.

I keep root beer barrels. Love hard candy.

i agree with the ckocolate tip i just bought a bag of the bite size candy and placed in a candy dish next to my sewing table!