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What quilting supplies/tools do you hate to spend money on?

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Old 06-13-2013, 04:13 AM
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Sorry I also hate having a pattern where you purchase the amount of fabric needed and either you don't have enough or you have a large piece left. Also patterns which donot tell about mistakes and corrections not clear.
Patterns are very very expensive and shouldn't contain mistakes.
Magazines with mistakes in should coletely replace the pattern in another date.
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Old 06-13-2013, 04:25 AM
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Harbor Freight is great for blades in the carpet tool sections. Blades are 2 in a package for $1.00 on sale and a little more otherwise. i.e. for a 45 mm cutter.
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Old 06-13-2013, 04:26 AM
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Rotary cutting blades and patterns are my dislikes, too. I do not like paying the current high prices for fabrics although the fabrics are so interesting and fun to use. I have cut back on buying fabrics "just because." Now I check my stash first and then buy whatever is needed for a specific project. I watch for sales.
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Old 06-13-2013, 04:29 AM
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Patterns for a queen sized bed that tell you you need to buy 19 yards of fabric to complete the top of the quilt. Hello, I could wallpaper my entire house with 19 yards of fabric... I get that they are trying to sell their fabric line, but how stupid do they think I am?
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Old 06-13-2013, 04:29 AM
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I have tried the blades from Harbor Freight...they do not work for me...perhaps the quality is not consistent since some ladies from QB have had good luck with them.
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Old 06-13-2013, 04:35 AM
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I hate it that patterns to download are the same price as the ones purchased at a quilt store. If I have to download and then print, it shouldn't cost the same.
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Old 06-13-2013, 04:41 AM
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I agree on the patterns they are mostly all over priced applique patterns are so easy to come by Dover books --old coloring book also books from visitor centers and even Aunt Marthas embroidery patterns lots of places and then design them myself
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Old 06-13-2013, 05:08 AM
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Have never bought a pattern, toooo many free ones! And rulers, bought some when I first started, never use them! But there are some I can't live without too.....live and learn!
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Old 06-13-2013, 05:29 AM
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Patterns. I learned to draft in my first quilting class so I rarely buy a pattern.
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Old 06-13-2013, 06:35 AM
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Hi bearisgray,I got fed up with buying patchwork magazines, they so often seem to recycle ideas and are so full of advertising. Forums like this have much more to offer.
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