Stuff you Use for Quilting, that isn't originally for Quilting!!!
#71
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Originally Posted by ghostrider
Originally Posted by QuiltE
Originally Posted by olebat
Originally Posted by QuiltE
What a great idea ... I can never squint my eyes right to look thru those ruby beholders and make sense.
Where, pray tell, does one buy such quilt-fashionista
eyeglasses? :)
Where, pray tell, does one buy such quilt-fashionista
eyeglasses? :)
#72
-grapefruit spoon to close quilting pins or plastic knife in a pinch
-cardboard cubby display box being thrown out at store, for FQs
-appetizers skewers for stilletto
-all types of containers that food came in for storage
-shoe and delivery boxes for fabric scraps, cut up shirts, etc.
-file holder for rulers
-bed risers to raise cutting table
-adjustable small table to left side of machine
-bought mini tools at Christmas time when they were cheap
-cardboard for template making
-glass jars for buttons taken off recyled shirts
-cup holder w/koozie taken off broken beach chair screwed to side of cutting table to hold scissors and pens out of the way
-DH made a lap quilt hoop from an embrodiery hoop my mom left me.
-when I need something I check around the house/cellar first before buying "made for quilting" items. Got this talent from my dad. He was a great improvisor.
-cardboard cubby display box being thrown out at store, for FQs
-appetizers skewers for stilletto
-all types of containers that food came in for storage
-shoe and delivery boxes for fabric scraps, cut up shirts, etc.
-file holder for rulers
-bed risers to raise cutting table
-adjustable small table to left side of machine
-bought mini tools at Christmas time when they were cheap
-cardboard for template making
-glass jars for buttons taken off recyled shirts
-cup holder w/koozie taken off broken beach chair screwed to side of cutting table to hold scissors and pens out of the way
-DH made a lap quilt hoop from an embrodiery hoop my mom left me.
-when I need something I check around the house/cellar first before buying "made for quilting" items. Got this talent from my dad. He was a great improvisor.
#73
My sewing area is also the computer room and where my DH drops everything on earth, so the room has to be multitasking....
- a (very) purple four drawer lateral file cabinet, found at a thrift store, top drawer holds family files, other three hold fabric
- assorted glass jars of various sizes for pencils to buttons
- lacquered chop stick for poking out corners
- unlacquered chop stick for moving fabric, stylus style
- old, again thrift store find, dining table, the kind with utensil drawers, for a sewing table
- wire shelved bakers rack at the wall end of the "sewing table" is great for the shelves, but, you can hang many things from it with "S" hooks, also can use chip clips to hang up blocks or notes or patterns
- several different sizes of tackle style boxes to hold notions and machine accessories. Have an old plastic one given to me by my Mom when I was in junior high, 100 years ago, which lost its little trays, and it is a perfect holder for patterns
- shoe boxes for storage
- I use a show box lid next to my sewing machine to lay down sizzors, extra bobbin, seam ripper, stitch savers, etc
- a (very) purple four drawer lateral file cabinet, found at a thrift store, top drawer holds family files, other three hold fabric
- assorted glass jars of various sizes for pencils to buttons
- lacquered chop stick for poking out corners
- unlacquered chop stick for moving fabric, stylus style
- old, again thrift store find, dining table, the kind with utensil drawers, for a sewing table
- wire shelved bakers rack at the wall end of the "sewing table" is great for the shelves, but, you can hang many things from it with "S" hooks, also can use chip clips to hang up blocks or notes or patterns
- several different sizes of tackle style boxes to hold notions and machine accessories. Have an old plastic one given to me by my Mom when I was in junior high, 100 years ago, which lost its little trays, and it is a perfect holder for patterns
- shoe boxes for storage
- I use a show box lid next to my sewing machine to lay down sizzors, extra bobbin, seam ripper, stitch savers, etc
#74
Originally Posted by QuiltE
Originally Posted by olebat
Originally Posted by Glassquilt
Hubby - he's colorblind but can't be beat when it comes to value
Where, pray tell, does one buy such quilt-fashionista eyeglasses? :)
#75
Originally Posted by Baloonatic
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Would large-lens cheap non-prescription glasses from Rite-Aid work if you wet the lens and stick on some red plastic wrap cut to fit?
Would large-lens cheap non-prescription glasses from Rite-Aid work if you wet the lens and stick on some red plastic wrap cut to fit?
#76
Elmer's school glue for holding binding in place = no pins needed after ironing, paper first aid tape for holding tracing paper in place while tracing a pattern from a book or pattern, margarine tubs to hold different sizes of safety pins, compass and protractor for making patterns.
#77
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All wonderful creative ideas ladies {sorry if i missed a Gents reply}, I too swiped the lg T square from hubby's workshop right along w/ a very nice Stanley 3 tiered nuts & bolt container to hold all the different feet for all my machines, it originally intrigued me because it matched the sewing rm colors..lol and he let it sit empty for way to long.
I hang a small paint brush from my desk lamp for cleaning the bobbin area & couldn't live w/o long tweezers.
I hang a small paint brush from my desk lamp for cleaning the bobbin area & couldn't live w/o long tweezers.
#79
Thanks for this tip, my arthritis is getting bad.
Originally Posted by purplemem
I hand quilt and I have arthritis in my hands.
I use these needle nosed curved, spring loaded pliers to pull the needles through. They really save my wrists.
http://www.service.kleintools.com/To...uct/D338-51/2C
I got mine from Harbor Freight for $2.
I use these needle nosed curved, spring loaded pliers to pull the needles through. They really save my wrists.
http://www.service.kleintools.com/To...uct/D338-51/2C
I got mine from Harbor Freight for $2.
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