What tools or products do you use from other hobbies for Quilting? Please share your ideas and I will make a list of them for us in my pages for all of us to enjoy!
#21
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: western Pa
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Examination table paper for tracing patterns, paper piecing, etc.
Old file folders for templates
Empty breath mint containers for used needles and rotary blades
Hemostats for pulling a needle thru fabric layers or catching bobbin thread if it's too short
Suture removal scissors for seam ripping. They have a sharp small hook on the end of one blade that gets under the stitch without damaging the fabric
Stamps and ink from the scrapbooking section to stamp designs on fabric
Old file folders for templates
Empty breath mint containers for used needles and rotary blades
Hemostats for pulling a needle thru fabric layers or catching bobbin thread if it's too short
Suture removal scissors for seam ripping. They have a sharp small hook on the end of one blade that gets under the stitch without damaging the fabric
Stamps and ink from the scrapbooking section to stamp designs on fabric
#23
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 115
When I finish a quilt I cut up the leftover scraps "not" large enough to use for another project into squares from 1 3/4" to 4 1/4" and store them in photo boxes labeled with the size of the squares. Therefore when I (for some unusual reason) need squares of any of these sizes I have a box to go through. Right now I'm making a scrapy 4 patch from a box full of 2 1/2" squares. Looks as if it's going to be a right nice size quilt.
#24
I keep 2 frisbees one on cutting table and one by my machine, i can put my stuff in it while working and they stay put. also i have stainless steel chop sticks for turning corners, oh my favorite for pinning quilts is this silver thing i got at a second hand store.
#27
Originally Posted by craftybear
What tools or products do you use from other hobbies for Quilting? Please share your ideas and I will make a list of them for us in my pages for all of us to enjoy!
& I will type them up on this list in Alphabetical order for all of us to Enjoy! Come on Quilters we need your input! Thanks!
The link below will take you the the master list that I am creating for all of us
http://www.quiltingboard.com/user_page.jsp?upnum=2574
Computer: so I can find cool links for all of us to enjoy!
Pizza boxes: to keep projects together - clean ones
& I will type them up on this list in Alphabetical order for all of us to Enjoy! Come on Quilters we need your input! Thanks!
The link below will take you the the master list that I am creating for all of us
http://www.quiltingboard.com/user_page.jsp?upnum=2574
Computer: so I can find cool links for all of us to enjoy!
Pizza boxes: to keep projects together - clean ones
#30
Originally Posted by mtspools
Little girl pony tail bands for holding thread on bobbins.
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