What is the best thing you've bought to use or lesson you have learned...
07-09-2011, 04:04 AM
#51
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Stevensville, MD
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It may sound silly, but piecing has just been so much fun since I got my Featherweight. I'd been using my Mom's newer plastic Singer beforehand. She's just so nifty to sew with! Sometimes I just see her sitting there and get the unshakable urge to settle in and make her purr.
07-09-2011, 04:19 AM
#53
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Liberty Hill - Central TEXAS Hill Country
Posts: 1,040
Originally Posted by MadQuilter
1. The iron is my friend. I used to bypass that step. Now, I spend a lot of time planning my order of operation to see if I can improve the "nesting" portion of the blocks and rows. Nesting makes assembly soooo much faster and easier.
2. When making a small mistake, the world does not come to an end AND once the quilt is quilted, most times it is hard to even find the error. So don't sweat the small stuff.
3. Sometimes "finished" is way better than "perfect."
4. Challenging colors or challenging patterns are great opportunity for growth.
5. "Machine Quilting made easy" by Maureen Noble is a great book of exercises.
2. When making a small mistake, the world does not come to an end AND once the quilt is quilted, most times it is hard to even find the error. So don't sweat the small stuff.
3. Sometimes "finished" is way better than "perfect."
4. Challenging colors or challenging patterns are great opportunity for growth.
5. "Machine Quilting made easy" by Maureen Noble is a great book of exercises.
But I also think THIS MESSAGE BOARD is one of the BEST things - Having been out of the "quilting" world for nearly 20 years, I've learned SO MANY NEW THINGS from all the talented people here - (& felt kinda stupid many times not knowing what a term means - still trying to learn some of the abbreviations, can't keep my "printed list" update, there are so many new ones all the time - but then that might also have something to do w/being so old.) :oops:
Have a blessed week end & may all you quilts be filled w/love :lol:
07-09-2011, 04:45 AM
#55
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Indiana
Posts: 118
I am new to quilting but I agree that the Rotary cutter is amazing. Since it hasn't already been said, I will say Basting Gun. I recently used one on a Queen size and it was much nicer than safety pinning the whole thing :)
07-09-2011, 05:05 AM
#57
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 1,866
Mustache trimmer to use as a seam ripper. Its amazing how quickly you can un-sew a long seam using this. I first saw this at a retreat. I could hear this buzzing every once in a while from across the room. Finally had to go investigate. On the way home, stopped at the store and bought one. When I got home, told hubby hey I bought you a present! He looked at it and said "why do I want that, I don't have a mustache" To that I said oh, I forgot, guess I will have to use it to rip my seams. grin. I didn't think he would ever stop laughing.
07-09-2011, 05:09 AM
#58
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 853
right now I will have to say my Accucut Studio. Hands down. Yesterday the power was out from 8:30am to 4pm. I couldnt sew, compute, bath or flush (well water), nor wash clothes. But I could cut with my Studio. I cut up 2 bags of scraps, big bags. now have strips 1 1/2, 2 and 2 1/2. Yea!!!
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