Quilting Tools You Can't Live Without

if you've been a quilter for very long you know that new tools and gadgets are coming out all the time and some of them are really fabulous and I always have an open mind plus of course it's always fun to get something new but I know I just don't have room for all of the gizmos and gadgets and rulers and everything and over the years I've given a lot of them away because I find I just don't use them but I wanted to share with you the things that I love and just can't live without so some of these are kind of old and a little beat up but I still love them so starting with this this is my it's very old and you can see it's all scratched this is my magnetic pin cushion I love it because I can throw things you know I'll be sewing along and I'll just kind of throw a pin in the general direction and I know it's going to land there and I love these pins now these are the ones these are the plastic heads and I know that some people like prefer the glass head because it won't melt but I love the plastic heads I don't know why it just it's more tactile or easier for me to to pull something like that and I like the the size because it's easy to pull these out so these are my favorite pincushion and pins thread how can we not love thread this is aurifil I love aurifil because it's really thin and when you're piecing it it just disappears but it's also really strong so this is the one that I ended up falling in love with but I'm not saying there aren't other great threads this is just my favorite on all it's so important when I'm trying to guide things under the presser foot and the needle and I don't want to get myself that's what I use I use an awl and it's handy for all kinds of things even you know pulling a few stitches out or or kind of flattening something when you're doing applique so at all these are my snips when I'm sewing and you know you have thread spawn threads I just snip them away and sometimes I'll just put them on a shoelace and put them around my neck and do it that way these are my big Fiskars scissors this was something I treated myself to the our titanium blades and they are they just stayed sharp forever and I like the fact that they're spring-loaded because I have arthritis in my hands and it's just they just make life easy this is my favorite thin Belov all time I do a lot of handwork and this is it's been around forever it's got a little metal tip in there it's got room for your fingernails if you ever get long fingernails which I don't seem to be able to do and then I have this is my rotary cutter I use all the time it's ergonomically correct it can be used you know left or right-handed it's it just is my favorite for some reason this is the one that works for me then this is also incredibly handy this is the the rotary cutter with the really big blade and I like it if I'm cutting eight layers at a time which I do sometimes even though maybe you're not supposed to but you can I use this because it just goes through those multiple layers really easily and it's also good for things like flannel and fleece and anyway I was really glad when this came out rulers okay well I have a gazillion rulers but I find that I keep going back to the same ones and and if these are the ones these are the these are the creative grid I hope you can see that creative grid rulers and on the back they have like these little dots of texture and what that does is it keeps the ruler from sliding around on your fabric and I also find them really easy to see through I have some rulers that have different colors instead of the black markings they have different colors or a lot more lines and I find those hard to see through but these are my favorites so creative grids and that I like that they don't slip this is an add an eighth ruler and it's big sister is the add 1/4 ruler this is what I use when I'm doing paper piecing you know foundation piecing I just love these because you don't have to try and get the right thing you just snug it up it's got this little lip back here and you snug it up against that seam and zip you're good so I love those and then this little guy here the quilters cut and press there are a lot of different versions of this and I think all pretty good this is the one I like it you can cut on this side and iron on this side and speaking of irons this is my little Rowenta travel iron it gets so hot it's it's so hot it's dangerous but you know it's just the coolest little thing because it's handle folds down like that and you can you know it comes in a little case it takes up no room and it's super hot plus you can steam with it vertically so if you're traveling and you're trying to get the wrinkles out it's a fabulous thing this your underwear ik for a quilt that you're going to cut out and then you're trying to put them down and not let them get wrinkled everything else it can be your problem I love these because I can put several fabrics on one of these you know I can load couple of them and hang them and that way they don't get wrinkled again right after I've ironed them so I love these there are several different types my glasses these are my you know buy them at the grocery store or the drugstore little cheater glasses without which life is dangerous and then this is a tin now the tin I just got lucky this is something you know when your kids have one of those fundraisers at school I ended up buying that tin but the cool thing is that this tin is the exact right size for my bobbin holders and I love these things these rings they're the best I can see everything and I you know I'm lucky to have this too but I I have indulged myself I buy a lot of bobbins and fill them up so my goal is to have one for every single piece every single spool thread I have so they're already waiting for me and finally I have this little guy this is a bobbin oops bobbin winder and if you've never tried one I recommend you give it a shot you put your spool here whines around and you press the button and it winds it up and what that does is it takes I'll keeps your machine from doing a lot of work because when it's spinning that bobbin it's moving really hard think how many of those you wind so I love this guy plus I can just do a whole bunch at a time without having to and you know do the whole thing through the Machine and then everything else so that's the last one I have to share with you and as I say these are my favorites I'm sure you have some too you might want to give one of mine a try

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Length: 6min 52sec (412 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 24 2015