What notions are a waste of money?
#221
Originally Posted by shadoh
i just love the basting spray, but not the odour or the sticky stuff that gets over the area beside the quilt.
#224
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
Posts: 198
I bought a seam ripper at a quilt show that has a wooden handle . the handle is flat on one side and keeps it from rolling and is ergonomically correct. I love this ripper ( but I hate having to rip out anything)
#225
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 29
The best pounce is the one you make. I used a square of fabric, filled it with Cinnamon, tied it with twine and pounce away. It smells good while you are using it too. It doesn't stay on too long so don't pounce the stencil all at once. It comes out if you don't get it wet, it sometimes comes out before you are done quilting but that's the reason you don't use the entire stencil at once.
#227
I find that when you come to the corner take one stitch diagonal across it and then continue with you 1/4in. seam clip the corners and they turn with a real neat sharp pointed corner.
Originally Posted by sewmuch
A purple thang is used to push out corners, square on one
end and pointed on the other....I use it on occasion, but I have found that chopsticks work just as well...
end and pointed on the other....I use it on occasion, but I have found that chopsticks work just as well...
#228
The Clover mini iron was a purchase I thought was useless until I found out the iron has to be turned on and brought to high heat several times before it will reach max temp. After preheating the iron six or more times it gets very hot every time now and works great Same goes for some flat and curling irons for hair. Electricity acts the way it wants to. :lol:[/quote]
I purchased this iron to take when we went camping. Out in the woods, far away from any hospital or anything cept for a country store...I found out the hard way that this little iron gets "extremely hot!" I wasn't looking and grabbed it around the metal part just below the iron and above the plastic and burned my hand so badly it blistered immediately and I had nothing to put on it except for a fan to blow on it! That was one of the worst weekends I had before or since! I tried to sell it at my yard sale for $5.00, and no one would even buy it! I still have it, so if anyone wants it, pay shipping and it's yours!
I really hate that iron! (and I try not to hate anything!)
*quilty hugs*
t
I purchased this iron to take when we went camping. Out in the woods, far away from any hospital or anything cept for a country store...I found out the hard way that this little iron gets "extremely hot!" I wasn't looking and grabbed it around the metal part just below the iron and above the plastic and burned my hand so badly it blistered immediately and I had nothing to put on it except for a fan to blow on it! That was one of the worst weekends I had before or since! I tried to sell it at my yard sale for $5.00, and no one would even buy it! I still have it, so if anyone wants it, pay shipping and it's yours!
I really hate that iron! (and I try not to hate anything!)
*quilty hugs*
t
#229
Try the hunting and fishing sections W.M.they have great plastic boxes with adjustable compartments and seem stronger than others. Love the ones I got. You can make small sectioins or larger ones and they close tightly.
Originally Posted by tucsonquilter
I bought a plastic bobbin keeper case and the lid broke off it within days. But my two favorite notions are my magnetic pin holder (I LOVE THAT) and the non slip gloves. What a differnce in holding the material when you have arthritus in your hands.
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