Pass On The Best Idea You've Had While Quilting
02-26-2011, 07:56 PM
#181
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I hang a lanyard around my neck and hang a small pair of scissors on the clip while sewing.
Use an empty paper towel roll for binding. After ironing the binding in half, wrap it around the roll and put it on your lap. No more tangled mess.
Use an empty paper towel roll for binding. After ironing the binding in half, wrap it around the roll and put it on your lap. No more tangled mess.
02-26-2011, 08:01 PM
#182
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I have one of the black toolboxes on wheels with the yellow pullout tray . From the home improvement store. Great to take to quilting and have everthing with me.
I also use safety pins when i have lots of blocks for a quilt -pin 10 blocks together. Then when you go to count your blocks you can pick-up 1 saftey pinned stack and know that is ten. Helps a lot if you have 100 blocks in a quilt.
I always make a copy of my pattern so I can write on it -like what color and any other changes I may make in the color placement - without writting on my organial pattern. Then keep the copy with my project until I am finished with my quilt.
I also use safety pins when i have lots of blocks for a quilt -pin 10 blocks together. Then when you go to count your blocks you can pick-up 1 saftey pinned stack and know that is ten. Helps a lot if you have 100 blocks in a quilt.
I always make a copy of my pattern so I can write on it -like what color and any other changes I may make in the color placement - without writting on my organial pattern. Then keep the copy with my project until I am finished with my quilt.
02-26-2011, 08:03 PM
#183
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Hi guys,
Just a fast note (I still have company) to let you know that 8296 quilters have read this thread and that 180 kind souls have posted some pretty fantastic ideas! Where else on the web do you find so many giving folks? I'm enjoying my inlaws visit but I can't wait to read all your ideas. Thank you for helping each other and for sharing--this is so nice!!
Sashing-Sarah709
Just a fast note (I still have company) to let you know that 8296 quilters have read this thread and that 180 kind souls have posted some pretty fantastic ideas! Where else on the web do you find so many giving folks? I'm enjoying my inlaws visit but I can't wait to read all your ideas. Thank you for helping each other and for sharing--this is so nice!!
Sashing-Sarah709
02-26-2011, 08:04 PM
#184
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Originally Posted by smitty
Id anyone is still reading this long-long post---I have an old
microwave cart on wheels. ironing board on top. shelves under. good place for spray cans,air cans, etc. pull it to the machine when needed. first shelf holds plastic set of
small drawers for small things.
microwave cart on wheels. ironing board on top. shelves under. good place for spray cans,air cans, etc. pull it to the machine when needed. first shelf holds plastic set of
small drawers for small things.
02-26-2011, 08:07 PM
#185
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Originally Posted by Lindsey
I keep one of those rug samples under my sewing machine. It keeps the noice down and helps with vibrations and I also stick the pins in it as I pull them out.
I use wooden clothespins (sometimes plastic...both cheap at $$ store), mark numbers and/or letters (A,B,etc) on the end w/magic marker, then clip the clothespin to the strips or blocks to keep them organized.
02-26-2011, 08:14 PM
#186
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I had a round glass table top from one of those inexpensive side tables..I use it for applique...I put lines on it with Sharpie...up and down and crossed...this way I do not have to press my fabric..I put my fabric down on the glass, I can tape it to the glass, I get the centre point right away and I also get the diagonal lines...I can pick up the glass and put it on a Rubbermaid container with a light in it for tracing...
I am working on Dear Jane blocks but this is a good idea for any paper piecing...when cutting the units for paper pieced block, I didn't want to lose them...I use a box lid, from the cardboard boxes that hold the printer paper, I put a 12 x 12 cork board in it...sell them at Walmart..4 for 10$ or so...and as I cut out the units, I pin them to the cork...this way I can see how they go together...when I cut out the fabric for the units, I pin it next to the units, and I know exactly what fabric is for what...then as I make them I pin them back and I can see the block coming together...I took another cork and drew with a Sharpie tthe size of the block...in this case the triangle and the square and so I can pin it on to see if it needs to be trimmed...I can block it on the cork..it has turned out to work really well for me...
I am working on Dear Jane blocks but this is a good idea for any paper piecing...when cutting the units for paper pieced block, I didn't want to lose them...I use a box lid, from the cardboard boxes that hold the printer paper, I put a 12 x 12 cork board in it...sell them at Walmart..4 for 10$ or so...and as I cut out the units, I pin them to the cork...this way I can see how they go together...when I cut out the fabric for the units, I pin it next to the units, and I know exactly what fabric is for what...then as I make them I pin them back and I can see the block coming together...I took another cork and drew with a Sharpie tthe size of the block...in this case the triangle and the square and so I can pin it on to see if it needs to be trimmed...I can block it on the cork..it has turned out to work really well for me...
02-26-2011, 08:24 PM
#187
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
I use a full 1" x 1.5" Post-it-Note pad flush up against the presser foot, held down with a fat rubber band or a strip of tape, to keep my 1/4" seams exact. I can sew two strips together in about 10 seconds using this! All my seams are straight, equal, and easy.
Jan in VA
Jan in VA
02-26-2011, 08:25 PM
#188
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Originally Posted by Carron
I glued a narrow magnetic strip across the top front of my sewing machine. Then when I am sewing something that has the straight pins and as they approach the needle, I pull them out and stick them onto the magnetic strip. Nothing falling onto the floor or worse into the lap.
02-26-2011, 08:30 PM
#189
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Hi,
Happy weekend hope everyone is enjoying it. It's snowing here again and the roads where terrible. Staying home and sewing all day tomorrow
Just wanted to say thanks for all the wonderful new tips. While I was at Harbor Freight I bought those long scissors for cutting batting for 2.99
Littlebelle
Happy weekend hope everyone is enjoying it. It's snowing here again and the roads where terrible. Staying home and sewing all day tomorrow
Just wanted to say thanks for all the wonderful new tips. While I was at Harbor Freight I bought those long scissors for cutting batting for 2.99
Littlebelle
02-26-2011, 08:46 PM
#190
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Originally Posted by Carron
I glued a narrow magnetic strip across the top front of my sewing machine. Then when I am sewing something that has the straight pins and as they approach the needle, I pull them out and stick them onto the magnetic strip. Nothing falling onto the floor or worse into the lap.
On some of heavy older metal ones it will stick by itself.
but, be careful.
Don't put anything madnetic near a new one with a computer in it!!! The magnetic field can kill it.
Same thing for other computerised stuff like watches and cell phones.
As I understand it, the magnetic field can de-magenetize or de-polarize the temporary memory ?
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