can write on it with a grease pencil, and it lasts through repeated fabric markings with the sharp wheeled tool.
* I use a old shoe bag to hold my stabilizer. It's at eye level and I can find whatever I need quickly.
thread. I am not the tidiest of people but this certainly helps.
* Doctor's paper tape. Wonderful for mending a pattern, marking a stitching line, taping the bias tape ends, etc.
cutting and picking out paper later. You can hand stitch or machine either one.
there that I need to find quickly.
Another useful thing has been tea cup hooks that are screwed into the side of my sewing table to hold my scissors.
when finished to pick up excess lint.
table--can't drink 'em but it sure works out nice!
close the door and it looks like a beautiful piece of furniture that my cats can't get into and make a mess.
ALCOHOL PREP PADS (buy at drugstores) for wiping goop off needles.
from sprays and give greater holding power.
off hoops and doesn't dry them out. (Also makes husband to wonder who you were entertaining!
done on net or tuille.
for keeping kids busy coloring!
double backstitch - I clip them off as I'm connecting seams.
* Zip Lock bags or hobby bags -- sort my buttons by plastic bags, store laces and other items in plastic bags.
3-ring note books and plastic sleeves - wonderful for articles and printed templates of my embroidery designs.
A needle nose pliers, a regular pliers and a hammer. Many uses.
Small clips from Lowe's to stabilize my excess fabric when embroidering.
Car garages (for Matchbox cars) for all my embroidery threads.
Flower nets from the florist which I use as thread nets.
Endust for electronics which I use to blow the lint out of my older sergers.
Gum flossers to thread my sergers, found in dental supplies.
vinyl covering, the same color as my desk, it blends right in and adds 13 inches of depth to my work area.
* My unique Thread holder! I fould a hardware store going out of business. They were selling their display furniture.
and put my thread on it...now when i am wanting thread i just turn it to the colors i want without leaving my chair.
Paid 25.00 for it and it was my best investment ever!
come over, and ask again, what's this spoon for.
seam where I'm putting in a zipper and use the edges as a seam guide.
Thanks for this topic--I'm learning so much from all of you!
get caught in the beater bar of my vacuum cleaner.
place. Keeps the spools from bouncing off, and the thread from winding around the spindle.
to the chain and hang my hoops from it.
I use old tic-tac containers for disposing of my used needles.
use glue dots on the underside lip of my Floriani thread spools to hold the end of the thread so it will not unravel.
Others, without lips, I use a ponytail band around the spool.
I also have several hair clips I use to hold loose fabric away from my embroidery field.
I use shelf liner, taped, to my bottom hoop edges to keep my material from slipping in the hoop while embroidering.
the wire slats of the shelf are just wide enough to keep the handles of my scissors from slipping through.
* My favorite thing I can't live without is blue masking tape -- great for all kinds of marking and holding in place.
sewing so much easier.....try it, you'll like it!
design I am working on.
needles, oil, thread, all kinds of stuff. I just love mine and know right at a glance where things are.
need it. ...... it works great!!
brush, fishing tackle box for embroidery feet and other items.
you ever got along without it??"