Basic Supplies

Don't throw away those small left over peices of soap from the shower.  They make a great marking tool on fabrics.  The markings are easy to see and to remove, plus you are using up something that other wise gets thrown out.

My pincushions were always disappearing or falling off the table. So I placed a velcro strip on the table and it holds my pincushions right where I can reach at all times

My tip doesn't fit into any of your categories. Sorry about that.

It's about caring for a quilt. We have to wash and dry them sometimes. If a quilt comes out of the dryer wrinkled, NEVER iron it. Instead, spray the quilt top with clean water from a plant mister. You don't want to wet the batting. Return the quilt to the dryer on fluff setting.

Happy Quilting!

Patty

I have always had problems laying out and designing my quilt on a wall with felt, I am not very tall. 

I have purchased two photographer's light stands, my husband created a small bar to connect the two and I use clips to hang the felt from (My husband created multiple holes on the cross bar).  I can adjust the height, width to fit the quilt I am working on!  It is great.  Also, I purchased the stands used off of ebay and saved a lot of money!! 

Sherri

Do not throw away your empty Kleenex boxes!  Keep one by your sewing machine or cutting table to put those tiny pieces of thread or fabric into.  Once full, toss it away.   You've recycled a Kleenex box for a second use as a table top trash can! 

When making your quilts keep a record of everything . Like where you purchased fabric, what type of quilting you did on it, what colors you used. Most important thing to do is to take a finished picture of your quilt make sure it is hanging or laying flat so you can get a good picture. Than because I loose everything I write  down I put it into my computer under quilt projects and inside that folder each quilt has its own folder and I never  lose it again.

When using your rotary cutter and your ruler have you fine your ruler slip slide away

Stop,

Get yourself a peice of sand paper some double face tape and place it ond the sandpaper, get a hole punch and punch out a bunch of hole, remove the protective paper and place it on your ruler

no more slipping

To make a non-slip area when tracing around templates on fabrics, use a sandpaper folder.  Take a manila folder and open it up.  Then glue a full sheet of sandpaper to each side of the folder on the inside.  Place your fabric on top of the sandpaper and then trace around your template. The fabric will stay put and not bunch up.  This sandpaper folder is easy to fold in half and take to classes with you and it doesn't take up much room!

DJWolf1414

Want a design wall that is easy to put up then just as easy to take down?  Sew a casing on a flannel backed tablecloth or sheet.  Slide a dowel or curtain rod in the casing.  To hang it, take two of the type of special hooks that have suction cups that have to be snapped down into place to adhere to the wall.  These work great on glass and ceramic tiles as well.  Company coming?  Lift the dowel and "wall down" and snap the hooks up to remove them.  No trace that it was ever there.

Need a quick disposable thread catcher when taking a class? Open a quart zipper bag and turn the top edge of the bag with the zipper down over the outside - this will keep the mouth of the bag open...then just attach to the edge of the table with a couple of strips of blue painter's tape and you have a thread catcher ...once the class is over you can just throw the bag away (though you can just peel the tape off too and keep the bag for the next class!)