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July 5th 2016 Guild Meeting - Favorite Tools, Tips, etc.

For our July meeting, everyone was asked to bring in their favorite tip, tool, or book for show and tell and here's what we all shared:

Kim - Quilt Suspension System while doing free motion quilting on your domestic or sit down machine.  These are actually pet grooming stands (you need at least two).  If you simply add a clamp, you can suspend a section of your quilt so that there is not as much drag while doing free motion quilting.  Link to product
  
Jan - Creative Grids Ruler CGR15125 (1.5" x 12") - Just the right size for so many uses.  Also she loves using bias tape makers by Dritz or Clover

Samantha - The Purple Thang - Great for removing paper piecing paper and much, much more.  The Groove Book website for printing out ideas / photos that are on your smart phone

Trudy - 8.5" ruler that is compact enough to fit into your travel case, but big enough for extra wide squares

Helene - Makeup Brushes and QTips for cleaning those dust bunnies in your sewing machine

Carol - June Tailor Ruler - Perfect Half Square and Quarter Square Triangles.  You can get this one at Sew Vac!

Ann - Invisifil Thread and #10 Bohin Applique Needles.  The thread is available at Sew Vac

Carlene - Bacon Press - After ironing, put the bacon press down on your block to retain the heat and keep the block flat

Lucina - Inspiration / design notebook - She logs her ideas and quilt designs for future reference in a bound notebook with grid paper inside

Sharon - Binding clips (pink of course) and Electric Seam Ripper

April - Karisma Chalk pencil and 1/4" masking tape

Sara - Metal Snap Clips

Tomoko - Tortoise thimble from Little House for hand quilting and running stitches and a Nimble Thimble for hand applique and hemming

Rebecca - Goody ouchless hair holders to wrap around bobbins to keep the thread from unraveling.  And Superior 3 in 1 Snips

Elaine - Martelli Circle Turntable Cutting Mat

Zina - Bread tags for row markers; Clover double pins for pinning seams; plastic, mesh-like shelf liner to place under your sewing machine pedal to prevent it from moving around.

Ricky - Basting tape for matching patterns when piecing a backing

Deb - Sench (easy threading) Needles for burying your threads when quilting 

Maria - Take your books to Staples to have them converted from a regular binding to a Spiral binding.  This allows your book to lie completely flat when in use

We also had some beautiful Show and Tell (sorry gals, some of the pictures didn't come out so not all quilts are included):