Worst quilting item purchased
10-29-2015, 05:25 PM
#131
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Fletcher NC(cool, green mountains)
Posts: 646
What does everyone feel about magazine subscriptions? I get Fons & Porter and American Patchwork and Quilting (I think it's McCalls). Although I continue to subscribe to these, I've cut down on others. I think I'm going to get inspiration from them, but am not sure anymore. Which ones do you continue to subscribe to? Are you finding that they are the "same" patterns--just different patterns? Trying to justify to myself when they come up for renewal next year.
10-29-2015, 06:05 PM
#132
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lubbock, TX
Posts: 376
A battery powered seam ripper that looks like a shaver. A seam ripper that puts a hole in the fabric, is garbage.
Second would be the Simpicity Bias maker. Way easier to use the Clover ones. I do like the bias strip winder they make though.
Most all my gadgets get used often. Love my AccuQuilt Studio . . .worth it's weight in gold.
Second would be the Simpicity Bias maker. Way easier to use the Clover ones. I do like the bias strip winder they make though.
Most all my gadgets get used often. Love my AccuQuilt Studio . . .worth it's weight in gold.
10-29-2015, 07:47 PM
#133
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: The Woodlands, Texas
Posts: 621
right now I have to say the ScanNCut for quilting. I purchased it for applique and have had a 10% success rate. I will keep trying because I spent $450 on it.
There are are so many things to remember (blade depth,pressure,direction of design, etc.). The time it was meant to save me on cutting the fabric is being spent on trying multiple times and then cleaning the mess left on the scan sheet. I know I must be missing something.
There are are so many things to remember (blade depth,pressure,direction of design, etc.). The time it was meant to save me on cutting the fabric is being spent on trying multiple times and then cleaning the mess left on the scan sheet. I know I must be missing something.
10-30-2015, 05:07 AM
#134
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 1,472
I'm not big on gadgets really, but I did buy a ruler a while back that you can position to make whatever curves or such you like with (supposedly). Apparently I'm too thumb-fingered to get it to work! So far, any curves I've made with it, I wouldn't want anywhere near my quilts!! Thankfully not too expensive.
10-30-2015, 04:22 PM
#138
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Crystal River Florida
Posts: 9,785
I once bought an Alex Anderson "Four In One" tool. It had a seam ripper, a stiletto, a flat part for "finger pressing" and a pointy thing for poking out corners. It was wooded & pretty but the caps over the stiletto & ripper would fall off & it was really poorly made. I did not like it at all.
10-30-2015, 07:08 PM
#139
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Northwest suburb of Chicago
Posts: 64
This thread was fun to read. Nearly every post had something in it that I have bought and no longer use, never used, or did't work...blade sharpeners, specialty rulers, Pinmoors (although I may try cutting them in half so they lay flatter), gadgets to help with FMQ, books, etc., etc. When I think of all the fabric I could have bought instead (sign).
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