What is one of the handiest little tools you have in your sewing room?
12-09-2010, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by mommafank
Originally Posted by patdesign
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I love my Purple Thang, my magnetic 'wand' for picking up pins, and my door stops. That's right ... door stops.
The wedge-shaped rubber kind that holds the door open.
I buy the large ones, they come 2 to the pack and I even found some in white at Dollar Tree. Place them under the back of your machine, about 2" from each end)to tilt it forward at a more ergonomically correct angle. Cuts down on shoulder fatigure and I can still use my cabinet insert around my machine. They always go to class with me because classroom tables are never at cabinet height.
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The wedge-shaped rubber kind that holds the door open.
I buy the large ones, they come 2 to the pack and I even found some in white at Dollar Tree. Place them under the back of your machine, about 2" from each end)to tilt it forward at a more ergonomically correct angle. Cuts down on shoulder fatigure and I can still use my cabinet insert around my machine. They always go to class with me because classroom tables are never at cabinet height.
Peggy
Freezing in Florida
12-09-2010, 04:05 PM
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My favorite tool is a pair of long neck tweezers. I use it for threading my machine needle since I don't know how to use the one already on the machine and to tuck corners for a point. I use it to hold down the very end of my fabric so I don't run over my fingers and when the thread breaks I pull the broken thread near the part of the machine I can't reach. I also pick the lint near the upper part of the needle and I am sure eventually I will find more uses for it. But when I set up my machine, my tweezers and my snipper scisors are nearby.
12-10-2010, 10:22 AM
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I cut an old computer mouse pad into a 3" wide strip that I put in front of my machine - just beyond working area - as a pin cushion. Easy to remove pins & just stab them at the pad without looking while I'm piecing something complicated enough to need pinning. My seam ripper lives there, too.
12-11-2010, 12:23 AM
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I for my self , A magnet on side of my sewing table close to my machine where I have my scissors and a pin cushion with a strip of metal a small finger rotary cutter and a magnifier with a light on it for small work , as I can't see the small work, lol I am blind as a bat.. a small home made ironing board 12" long by 9" wide on side of my Bernina for quick ironing with small iron. and a lint roller plus a bingo magnet for fallen pins plus all others that was mentioned
12-11-2010, 12:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Riversong
Mine is my double duty turntable /cutting mat hubby made me from re purposed things,and my veggie tray sits on it and I use both a LOT!
12-11-2010, 12:56 AM
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I for my self , A magnet on side of my sewing table close to my machine where I have my scissors and a pincuchion with a strip of metal a small finger rotary cutter and a magnifier for small work , as I can't see the small work, lol I am blind as a bat.. a small home made ironing board 12" long by 9" wide on side of my Bernina for quick ironing with small iron. plus all others that was mentioned,will add some that I don't have lol
12-13-2010, 09:28 AM
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Hmmm...handiest little tool???? I think that would be my around-the-neck doo-hitchy thingie that allows my small scissors to hang where I can find them. I have a habit of putting them down and then not remembering where I put them!! I can't sew without it!!
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