Quilting projects to bring for travelling
#12
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[QUOTE=QuiltE;6714658]Tartan .... please tell use more!
(I googled, but found nothing that made sense!)
Clover calls it a Thread Cutting Pendant. I bought mine at JoAnn, but Amazon sells it, and I think I saw one at WalMart. Besides Clover, I saw a Susan Bates version and a Dritz version when I looked at Amazon. They are a circular blade, like rotary cutter blade, inside a pendant with small notches to cut thread.
I take applique just about everywhere I go. I have the applique pieces turned under and ironed onto freezer paper with all the other pieces for that block. Each block is in it's own quart baggie. They all fit neatly inside a gallon bag - I made a tote just slightly larger to also hold thread, thimble, seam ripper, glasses, and wallet. Makes it easy to get what I need for wherever I am. I can add more to it if I need to and it still stows under an airplane seat. I take the tote everywhere I go that I will be sitting and waiting. And the pendant thread cutter is perfect.
(I googled, but found nothing that made sense!)
Clover calls it a Thread Cutting Pendant. I bought mine at JoAnn, but Amazon sells it, and I think I saw one at WalMart. Besides Clover, I saw a Susan Bates version and a Dritz version when I looked at Amazon. They are a circular blade, like rotary cutter blade, inside a pendant with small notches to cut thread.
I take applique just about everywhere I go. I have the applique pieces turned under and ironed onto freezer paper with all the other pieces for that block. Each block is in it's own quart baggie. They all fit neatly inside a gallon bag - I made a tote just slightly larger to also hold thread, thimble, seam ripper, glasses, and wallet. Makes it easy to get what I need for wherever I am. I can add more to it if I need to and it still stows under an airplane seat. I take the tote everywhere I go that I will be sitting and waiting. And the pendant thread cutter is perfect.
#14
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Join Date: May 2009
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I vote for applique. I appliqued 80% of this quilt travelling on planes, on a cruise, waiting in Airports and visiting family. I put prepared circles, precut 6 1/2" background squares, small thread snip scissors and a little square of batting to hold my needles and pins along with three spools of silk thread (a light, medium and dark) in a quart size ziplock bag and slid it into my carry on tote.
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#15
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Join Date: May 2009
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I had no trouble traveling with small thread scissors, like the kind used for embroidery. Singapore may have different requirements.
#16
I vote for applique. I appliqued 80% of this quilt travelling on planes, on a cruise, waiting in Airports and visiting family. I put prepared circles, precut 6 1/2" background squares, small thread snip scissors and a little square of batting to hold my needles and pins along with three spools of silk thread (a light, medium and dark) in a quart size ziplock bag and slid it into my carry on tote.
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#17
I'm going to be doing these little houses as handwork
something else I've done were cathedral window and
what I know as Chinese cathedral window which has batt under the focus fabric and the background window frame folds in. Each unit is finished and as your attach the windows to each other you have a much lighter cathedral window quilt. Much more a hexie look that the four melon strips as in a standard cathedral window.
I couldn't find any photos If I remember, I'll get a sample out to show you.
something else I've done were cathedral window and
what I know as Chinese cathedral window which has batt under the focus fabric and the background window frame folds in. Each unit is finished and as your attach the windows to each other you have a much lighter cathedral window quilt. Much more a hexie look that the four melon strips as in a standard cathedral window.
I couldn't find any photos If I remember, I'll get a sample out to show you.
#19
Found it! Padded Hexagons or Pad as you go hexagons
by Irma Chelsworth from Down Under Quilts March 1991
There are two acrylic forms, that went with the set and I have a feeling mine samples are nothing like the pattern
but for what it's worth, one more hand
project..
by Irma Chelsworth from Down Under Quilts March 1991
There are two acrylic forms, that went with the set and I have a feeling mine samples are nothing like the pattern
but for what it's worth, one more hand
project..
#20
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Chapel Hill
Posts: 1,086
The rules have changed for scissors as noted above. But be aware that if you are traveling outside the US, rules may differ. My cute thread snips were confiscated leaving Turks & Caicos last summer. Nothing was posted in the check-in area to warn of that or I would have transferred them to my checked bag before going through security. I've also had a pair of child's safety scissors taken in Japan. Short blade/rounded tip scissors have been allowed on board flights for the past decade or so (I talked to multiple TSA screeners during that time and generally put the scissors in the same bin with my shoes so that they could see them easily.
TSA used to forbid the cutter style necklace because of the hidden blade. It is not expressly forbidden on their list now. People have used dental floss containers in the past as a cutter as well on planes.
Cheers, K
TSA used to forbid the cutter style necklace because of the hidden blade. It is not expressly forbidden on their list now. People have used dental floss containers in the past as a cutter as well on planes.
Cheers, K
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