Favorite tips
01-26-2009, 04:10 PM
#61
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Ever vacuum out your bobbin case and under your threadplate? All you need is your vacuum hose, a plastic lid and a drinking straw.
Take a plastic lid larger than the hose of your vacuum and slit an x in the center, but not too large because you want the straw to fit snug. Unscrew the foot plate. Turn on the vacuum and place the plastic lid over the hose - the suction holds it on. Insert the drinking straw into the slit of the plastic cap and hold on to it! Place the open end of the straw into your shuttle case and vacuum! You can smoosh it flat and vacuum the area gently, even getting up around where you put your needle in. Works great!
Take a plastic lid larger than the hose of your vacuum and slit an x in the center, but not too large because you want the straw to fit snug. Unscrew the foot plate. Turn on the vacuum and place the plastic lid over the hose - the suction holds it on. Insert the drinking straw into the slit of the plastic cap and hold on to it! Place the open end of the straw into your shuttle case and vacuum! You can smoosh it flat and vacuum the area gently, even getting up around where you put your needle in. Works great!
01-26-2009, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Marcia
I took an inexpensive "tomato" pincushion and divided it into sections with a marker. In each section I wrote the size of a sewing machine needle. I put used, but not used enough to throw out yet, needles by size in their sections. In the section that is the size I have in my sewing machine I put a flowered flat head pin. So, at a glance I know what size needle I have in my machine. Since I like to use a different size needle for cotton and flannel and machine quilting needles for machine quilting or sewing on binding I need to change my needle fairly often. Using the pin cushion for needles has really helped keep me organized.
01-26-2009, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by pal
I try to take a picture of my quilt before I sandwich it, then you
can see if anything is wrong before you go any further.
Don't know why this works, but it does.
can see if anything is wrong before you go any further.
Don't know why this works, but it does.
01-28-2009, 08:22 AM
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I use Q tips to clean around my bobbin, they just draw out all that llint and fuzzy stuff.
I also have read not to use air, but use your vacuum clean to bring the stuff out not push it in.
Have a wonderful quilty day,
simple quilter
I also have read not to use air, but use your vacuum clean to bring the stuff out not push it in.
Have a wonderful quilty day,
simple quilter
01-28-2009, 01:05 PM
#66
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Originally Posted by Donna Mae
I use Q tips to clean around my bobbin, they just draw out all that llint and fuzzy stuff.
I also have read not to use air, but use your vacuum clean to bring the stuff out not push it in.
Have a wonderful quilty day,
simple quilter
I also have read not to use air, but use your vacuum clean to bring the stuff out not push it in.
Have a wonderful quilty day,
simple quilter
I ordered from the Clotilde catalog a little "gizmo" that attaches to my vacuum cleaner hose. There are very tiny attachments that reach down into the machine and the serger. I love it.
01-28-2009, 01:43 PM
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When I find a pattern that I will be using more than once, I always
iron interfacing on it before I cut it out. Then I don't have to be so
careful and it won't tear as easily as the plain tissue paper pattern.
iron interfacing on it before I cut it out. Then I don't have to be so
careful and it won't tear as easily as the plain tissue paper pattern.
01-28-2009, 04:07 PM
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It was suggested to me by a quilting teacher that I keep a pipe cleaner handy to get in and around the bobbin case. It does grab a lot of the dust but I think the vacuum cleaning methos is probably the best for getting it all out.
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