What is one of the handiest little tools you have in your sewing room?
#71
Mine is probably my mustache trimmer. Yep, I said mustache trimmer!! Battery operated so I can take it wherever I need to. I use it to tear out mistakes. Turn it upside down so the teeth don't catch the fabric and run it along the threads of the seam you want to tear out! Voila! So fast.
#77
Originally Posted by Ragann63
Mine is probably my mustache trimmer. Yep, I said mustache trimmer!! Battery operated so I can take it wherever I need to. I use it to tear out mistakes. Turn it upside down so the teeth don't catch the fabric and run it along the threads of the seam you want to tear out! Voila! So fast.
#79
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Location: Jacksonville, FL
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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.
Peggy
Freezing in Florida
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
#80
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Beaverton,Michigan
Posts: 802
Originally Posted by oldmountaincrafts
OK, don't laugh, but my favorite tool in my sewing room is my TV & DVR satellite box. I MUST have noise and something to occupy my brain while I sew/quilt and this does the trick. My DH will tell you, when I didn't have the TV in the room yet, I wouldn't stay in there for 30 minutes before getting up, now that the TV is in there I only came out for breaks on Saturday a few times and was in there sewing/quilting for more than 10 hours!!
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