Do you like to re-purpose items to be used for your quilting hobby?
09-21-2020, 02:24 AM
#42
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I have a vintage glass salt shaker with a pretty copper top. I broke the pepper shaker. Hmmm..what to do with 1 shaker...
I filled the salt shaker with quilt basting pins. I keep it on a Lazy Susan beside my sewing machine.
It makes me smile to see my pretty shaker every time I sew.
I filled the salt shaker with quilt basting pins. I keep it on a Lazy Susan beside my sewing machine.
It makes me smile to see my pretty shaker every time I sew.
09-21-2020, 05:02 AM
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Ha...I don't bake very often....and I use my baking tins all the the time....bread pans, cake pans, muffin tins, etc....so when I want to make a pan of brownies, I have to temporarily relocate some half square triangles....oh...and I have have one of those giant empty plastic jars that things like cheese puffs come in to keep all my empty spools in....I always get a warm blush of satisfaction when I deposit a newly empty spool in it...my goal is to fill it up with empty spools that I have emptied! crazy...but I love it.
09-21-2020, 06:27 AM
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I use wide-mouth canning jars and color organize my thread spools in them; have an antique muffin pan next to the machine to catch extra bobbins, leaders/enders, etc; baggies for small pieces; large ziplocks for entire projects, plastic ice cream tubs for pieced block units; a wood pop bottle case on end for stashing glue sticks, masking tape; machine oil, etc, a tin Russell Stover box for extra blade packages and the containers of used blades; mugs (one with fabric organizer) for pens, stiletto, rippers, etc;wire file racks for Accuquilt dies
09-21-2020, 07:04 AM
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Yep love re-purposing.....large pickle jars hold various colors of yard for tying quilts or embroidery projects. Ice cube trays fit perfectly in my sewing cabinet drawer to hold bobbins. An old wooden pipe holder is great for a scissor stand.
10-06-2020, 08:01 PM
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I do a lot of small hand piecing and quilting projects. My favorite reuse is the boxes that Little Caesar's cheesy bread comes in, (my son loves it). If they aren't soiled I cover them with contact paper and use them to make project kits. They stack nicely, and I can stick a label on them that I can easily remove for the next project. I also use the small Fancy Feast cat food boxes for sorting scraps. My kitty loves her Gravy Lover's Grilled Chicken so I have a ton of them!
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