- Use a small square of batting when sewing or quilting to catch your thread snips. When
it is full, clean it off or just throw it away. I find I have fewer threads on me and my quilts
when I use this trick.
- Cut a small piece of jar opener rubber and keep it next to you as you hand quilting.
Grab it to take hold of the needle. It helps pull it through several thickness of fabric.
Glad Press `N Seal has little grabbers on it that makes it work well in quilting. Do not
iron it on as it may leave them on the fabric. It presses in place easily with your hands.
Use it to create stencils you have for designs on your borders and eliminates the math.
Using a copier, enlarge or reduce patterns for your borders Copy the design on the
Press 'N Seal. Press it to the corners of your quilt. Then cut the design for borders in
sections and copy and press on your quilt an even distance apart and start sewing.
Sharpies come in different colors now so the design is easy to follow.
- Protect the underneath finger with a leather finger that you can make yourself Use a
piece of soft, pliable but strong leather cut in a rectangle of about 1-1/4 by 3 inches.
Fold in half and sew close to the edge down both sides stopping about 1/8 of an inch
from the folded edge. Trim away the corners at the folded edge. . Place this on the
underneath finger. You can feel the needle picking into the leather but your finger is
free from pain etc.
- If you take a threaded needle and run it through a sheet of Bounce it will keep you
threaded needle from getting tangled while sewing.
- Use "fingercots" on the tips of your fingers for pulling the thread through the quilt
when I am quilting. This makes even the hardest to pull, come through with ease. You
can purchase them at the medical supply store.
- When hand quilting in a car or plane take a bobbin fill with the thread you will be using
and place it in a empty dental floss container. Pull thread around the cutter. Glue a
double piece of flannel to the inside of the lid to carry a needle.
- Place a small piece of contrasting fabric onto a safety pin. When you're done quilting
for the day, attach the safety pin to your quilt where you stopped. When you go back to
work it's easy to find where you left off.
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