Rumbols

1/4" sewing foot with guide
seam ripper
rotary cutter and cutting mat
8 1/2" X 12" ruler
scissors

Aurora

I find my digital camera is an excellent quilting tool. I use it for layout options and evaluating fabric selections/combinations. It doesn't take an expensive one. Once I decide which layout to use, I download the photos to my laptop and it becomes another quilting tool.

Do take advantage of the free quilt patterns on the internet and the tutorials on this board. They are invaluable.

cjomomma

Rotary cutter and blades, a good cutting mat, rulers, seam ripper(my best friend some days), small pair of scissors for snipping thread. Honestly you don't have to purchase expensive items to be a successful quilter.

carolaug

My Studio/or my GO
Mat
Ruler
cutter
seam ripper

Midwestmary

Ditto....but don't forget the chocolate :thumbup:

jillaine

Thanks. Okay, so maybe five was too few; next five? (ie. total of ten?) I realize five is also limiting in type of tool: you're all pretty much saying the same thing. I'm looking for variety here! ;-)

what's a kai scissors?

BellaBoo

Only one in my top five most useful tools to me that is non electric/electronic
1. the Accuquilt Go.

my must haves for quilting now that I have used them are:
2. Quality sewing lamp
3. Simplicity Binding machine
4. EQ7
5. Computer and Printer

Scissor Queen

My top five,

1, rotary cutter and good scissors
2, cutting mat
3, thread snippers - double as seam rippers
4, rulers
5, pins and hand needles

I don't ever use a seam ripper. I don't use a lot of pins except when I pin borders on. I wouldn't even quilt without a rotary cutter.

Pamela Artman

1. cutting mat/ironing pad - cutting mat on one side, ironing pad on the other.
2. rotary cutter and blades
3. 6 x 12" ruler
4. 12.5 x 12.5" ruler
5. 6.5 x 6.5" ruler (I use all three of these regularly)
6. snips for cutting thread and small fabric pieces
7. painters tape for marking my 1/4" line to run my fabric along
8. hera marker (better than pencil or pen for marking sewing or quilting lines)
9. Pins, short for applique, thin for paper piecing, glass heads for piecing, safety pins for pin-basting, all sharp!
10. Large binder clips for holding layers taught before pin-basting (I clip my fabric to a long folding table)

QuiltingGrannie

Most everyone basically has the same five and I agree, but I'll change it up a bit, just to be different.

1) Coffee
2) Chocolate
3) Computer (for Quilting board)
4) My imagination as I dream up patterns and putting different fabrics together.
and
5) Water.

I can go a day or two without actually quilting. I can even go without the chocolate,
but rarely does a day go by without the other things I've listed. (Even food I can go a day without).