What are your favorite tools?
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#23
This is my current favourite
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#24
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Join Date: May 2011
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Freezer paper (also cheap and available at grocery stores) is great because you can draw on one side, and the other side will stick to fabric when you iron it. I use it for applique shapes and patterns. I actually use it for garment sewing also; I draw or trace the pattern pieces onto freezer paper, iron it to the fabric, then cut. No pinning necessary. If I'm out of heat-resistant template plastic, I can make a template by gluing 2 pieces of freezer paper (shiny side out) to some cardstock, cutting it in the desired shape, and now I have a template I can use for pressing the seam allowances under on my appliques.
#26
I have larger roll of freezer paper and two rolls of parchment paper in my sewing room. You can iron two pieces of freezer paper together (wax side) and have a great pressing sheet and be any size you need. It holds up to starch and steam.
#27
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My friend Cindi has a cool one she found somewhere that is small and sticks to a surface. I think she stuck it to the edge of a worktable. It's about the size of a nickel.
#28
I am just starting out and have found a few tools that have quickly become my favorites, and am still discovering things. What are yours?
My favorites:
Shape Cut Pro slotted ruler
GrabbIt magnetic pin cushion
Seam-Fix seam ripper
and then of course the essential rotary cutter and mat, but that goes without saying
My favorites:
Shape Cut Pro slotted ruler
GrabbIt magnetic pin cushion
Seam-Fix seam ripper
and then of course the essential rotary cutter and mat, but that goes without saying
extendable magnet-------picks up pins and such
magnetic pin holder-----I just aim pins toward it and it sucks them in
rag quilt snipper--------in addition to snipping fabric, they are just plain handy to use since they "open" themselves and saves some energy (got stiff hands!)
AND my ever present seam ripper.
#29
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
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This is my favorite tool, also!! I absolutely can't live without it. I've had it a few years and have given my best friend on The Quilting Board one and she loves it, also.
#30
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: England Alton Towers
Posts: 6,673
My best hing isn't a tool exactly but is all the wonderful friends I have made.
Books books patterns patterns.
I love small needles for hand sewing. Sharp pointed scissors.
The joy of being creative.
Sorry but I love trying different sewing machines tools etc I'm a gadget fiend.
Books books patterns patterns.
I love small needles for hand sewing. Sharp pointed scissors.
The joy of being creative.
Sorry but I love trying different sewing machines tools etc I'm a gadget fiend.
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