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09-17-2015, 06:45 AM

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tessagin

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Double stick tape will help hold those spools in place. Magnetic strips for the metal bobbins.You can purchase magnetic strips for inside your boxes. They have an adhesive back to attach to the inside of your box of pins. Works great. I use them where ever I have any kinds of pins.

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Originally Posted by Boston1954

Securely close the plastic box with the thread spools, and bobbins. When a box falls on a dusty floor, the thread picks it up like a magnet, and they roll EVERYWHERE!

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09-17-2015, 07:12 AM

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FiveseveN

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Learned not to catch a dropped object in the machine shop (factory), and to always put tools away... buuuuttttt... learned too late to HIDE my good fabric scissors!

09-17-2015, 09:12 AM

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quiltingshorttimer

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Always make a "test" block--and check your unfinished size--before you take off with chain piecing!

09-17-2015, 09:44 AM

#24

fish92241

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Either wear a protective glove when using the rotary cutter or get your finger ALL the way out of the way. It will slice off a piece of finger without pausing. Then a trip to the immediate care!

09-17-2015, 09:50 AM

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madamekelly

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Never try to explain to DH why I have to go get more fabric for a project. "Can't you just use a different color?" No it has to match dear, just like your socks match. (We'll, most of the time...lol)

09-17-2015, 11:33 AM

#26

stillclock

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which painful lesson HAVEN'T i learned?

ha!

aileen

09-17-2015, 12:59 PM

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wildyard

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cathyvv

Measure twice, cut once. Even more important, check the size you need to cut twice, write it down and then measure twice and cut once.

LOL oh my this is so true for me, the part of check the size you need to cut twice , maybe even 3 times AND write it down. When the fog sets in, it is so easy to get my numbers confused, transposed, do the math wrong, etc.

09-17-2015, 01:06 PM

#28

wildyard

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Kelly_Y

Today, I learned that you should use a walking or at least non-stick foot when quilting on a relatively new tee shirt.

In the process or trying with a regular foot, the resulting knots were impossible to get out with a seam-ripper. I'm going to have to cut that square out and QAYG in a replacement.

So for today's discussion, what lessons have you learned the hard way?

Not a proper reply to the actual post question, but hopefully a helpful hint: When sewing t-shirts where the foot doesn't glide smoothly, I lay strips of waxed paper between the shirt and my foot. I can see thru it and the foot glides easily over all design materials.