What is your favorite quilting tool
#24
I don't know that I have a favorite tool, but my 20-1/2" square ruler is certainly one of my favorites. It is incredibly useful when I have to lay out and cut large pieces of fabric; most of the fabric I buy is large pieces. At the same time, I use something I created: large-ish plastic buckets of smooth decorative rocks that I use as weights to keep the fabric secure when I line it up and smooth it out. I also love my homemade shelf units that are the "legs" for my large cutting table.
The most useless?? I have MANY things I've bought over the years that I have not yet used, but the thing that concerns me most is EQ5. I was reluctant to buy any quilt software, but decided if I had an opportunity to buy EQ5 at a reasonable price that I would buy it. I did buy it, but it holds no interest for me. I played with it for a few hours each night when I first got it, but it bored me to tears.
The most useless?? I have MANY things I've bought over the years that I have not yet used, but the thing that concerns me most is EQ5. I was reluctant to buy any quilt software, but decided if I had an opportunity to buy EQ5 at a reasonable price that I would buy it. I did buy it, but it holds no interest for me. I played with it for a few hours each night when I first got it, but it bored me to tears.
#25
I love my OMNI travel folder which has an ironing surface on one side and a cutting mat on the other. I travel 2-3 days a week for work and this slips inside my briefcase or suitcase and allows me to work in my hotel room in the evenings!
#27
Of Course my Janome and then I use my little sissors to cut those wild threads . Love my Rotary cutter,mats and my sissors for cutting cloth. The seam ripper has become my friend it with a good steam iron hides a lot of oooppps
#30
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My favorite quilting tool is without a doubt -- my quilt guild -- they are such a friendly, supportive, sharing, giving, funny, and industrious group of women. My second favorite quilting tool is my computer -- where I find this group, an abundance of free quilt patterns, quilting terms and techniques, and access to any other quilt tool I might think I cannot live without.
It wasn't that long ago when my grandmother created quilts to keep her family warm with a pair of scissors, newspaper (if she was lucky for patterns), and needle and thread.
It wasn't that long ago when my grandmother created quilts to keep her family warm with a pair of scissors, newspaper (if she was lucky for patterns), and needle and thread.
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