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Old 01-10-2014, 10:44 AM
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My daughter's rotary cutter we bought her for Christmas. What a difference compared to scissors. It makes it so easy to be accurate.
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Old 01-10-2014, 12:17 PM
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Old 01-10-2014, 12:52 PM
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I know this is going to sound silly but, I consider my two hands my best tool. I have thought many times about having a top professionally quilted, but have resisted the temptation because I feel a quilt is more "ME" when I do it myself.
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Old 01-10-2014, 02:22 PM
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I love my starch! I make quilts with lots of small pieces..and it makes all the difference.
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Old 01-10-2014, 02:27 PM
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I have been wondering about the flower head pins. ....
I like them but last week I melted the flower heads on five of them while pressing.
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Old 01-10-2014, 02:33 PM
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That so many people like the Clover clips is interesting. I bought two boxes of them but they're now gathering dust. I like to adjust my binding as I go so I can keep the stitching close to the edge and found the clips got in the way.
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Old 01-10-2014, 02:48 PM
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My latest favorite was gifted to me by a fellow quilter. It is by Sewology and are called Hot Pink Arch clip scissors. I call them Parrot scissors since the blades remind me of a parrot's beak. My machine does not have an automatic thread snipper, just the blade on the side. The parrot scissors, save me about 1 1/2 inches of thread every time I cut. In paperpiecing, that amounts to alot of thread since many seams are only about an inch long.
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Clever idea!
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Old 01-10-2014, 03:39 PM
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I use bobby pins for binding. It works fine and is very cheap!
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Old 01-10-2014, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Boston1954 View Post
I know this is going to sound silly but, I consider my two hands my best tool.
Doesn't sound silly at all to me, and i agree, hands top my list as a favorite tool, too. No substitute in many cases. My favorite notions are the ones that come out of my head when designing the next quilt I want to make or coming up with the solution to an unexpected problem when quilting.
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