Favorite quilting tools
After all the scissors, thesis and rulers I find my favorite quilting tools are:
And without this I wouldn't be able to quilt at all:
This is the only needle threader that I have ever in use accustomed to that really works. It threads embroidery needles all the way down to scope 10 quilting needles. I rely on my threader so much that I bought a back-up principled in case.
What are your favorite quilting tools?
Source: Tropical Screamer
Pin Basting
I irrevocably did the pin basting for my quilt. I was very nervous about this step. I mean, if I don't get everything organized, my quilt is gonna look wonky. I should have researched a itsy-bitsy more about how to do this the right way. I am not sure if I got the back straight or not. Oh well, it is my first effort, and it will still be functional lol
I had gone to Joanns Saturday to get everything I needed for the quilt. I bought my cotton batting ( which was 50% off, YAY! ) Measure 1 basting pins (thank you Vanessa for recommending the smaller pins : D ) cotton quilting file and machine quilting needles. I was all set when I started yesterday afternoon. I had an hour and a half to get this done before I had to off and bring Sydney and Isabella to ballet class. Slews of time to finish since I was doing this in the middle of the living live and definitely didn't want to leave my quilt there for very large where my family and animals would just walk on it. I had Oprah on the tv, a drinking-glass of water (this involved a lot of bending and stretching, you get thristy when you travail this hard ; ) LOL) Everything was going right on schedule when about halfway through pinning, I ran out of pins!!!!! I had bought a company of a hundred, I thought for sure that would be plenty, I was wrong lol This meant that I had to give up my precious quilt on the floor while I left to bring the girls to grade. I left with a strict warning that if anyone walked on my quilt, there would be serious consequences. I needed a few things from the grocery reservoir, so figured I could stop by Walmart on my way home, get my groceries, my quilting pins and gas ($2.53 a gallon!!!!!) and be well-versed in within an hour....
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Houston Quilt Market 2008
Well, we made it back from Houston last blackness. We had a good time- I gave a 30 minute talking during a program they call "Schoolhouse". During schoolhouse they have about 20 rooms with rotating speakers, from 10am to 6pm there are 15 sessions- some 30 min. some 15 min.-with new presentations in each dwell for each session (occasionally a speaker will get 2 sessions, but not often) so basically you're in rivalry with the speakers in the other rooms during your session to try and have as many listeners as possible (the more that heed the more that will go back and teach your stuff in their hometown!) Sometimes you are also competing against your time opening- I was in session 14 almost the end of the program when a lot of people are tired and leaving initial, and the lunch time sessions are even rougher because there is no break when everyone stops, you well-grounded have to miss a session if you want to eat lunch. I was quite fidgety that around 60 people showed up to hear about our book, last year when I did this we had about 40 people (and I even had a raise time slot then) so it's nice to know there's still a lot of interest.
I also taught a take & demonstrate class. The take & teach program is a 1.5 hour caste that is meant to offer people a hands on experience of new techniques/books/tools so they can go back to their limited stores and teach it themselves and hopefully bring a sample hospice with them to help them remember the process or even to use as their sample for the class. An hour and a half is not a lot of previously to make anything so you almost always have to miniaturize your project, and at quilt market almost everyone has traveled relatively a ways to attend and there is no way to provide a supply list to them in lend so as a teacher you have to provide everything: You have to arrange things in advance with a sewing mechanism company if your students need machines in class, you have to stock up all fabric, thread and batting, I don't even like to assume that...
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