A cool tip

Posted by KJ on April 11, 2009, 2:10 pm

I was watching The Quilt Show online the other day and the featured teacher
was Elsie Campbell. She does a lot of hand work. There are times when
doing hand (or machine work) when you need to measure the 1/4" from the
corners. She sticks a piece of quarter inch tape to her thumbnail to use as
the "ruler". Very cool. She just lays her thumbnail against the block and
pins. No picking up a ruler or eyeballing it. This probably isn't a
surprise to some....but I'd never seen it done before. Some people are so
smart!

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Posted by Polly Esther on April 11, 2009, 2:20 pm

Brilliant! Kathyl. That would be especially handy for on-the-road
needlework when you might not have a ruler handy. Polly

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Posted by Estelle Gallagher on April 11, 2009, 4:19 pm

That is a great tip. Worth passing on to my hand sewers at club! Thankyou.
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Posted by on April 11, 2009, 5:05 pm

I read about this somewhere when I was trying to get better at hand
sewing eyeballing a 1/4 inch. I did actually have this tape on my
thumb while stitching, not sure how much it helped me really. I seem
to remember it kept coming off, which might not have helped :-) But
for the occasional "I need to check this", it is a neat idea.

Hanne

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Posted by teleflora on April 11, 2009, 5:52 pm

She makes beautiful quilts too. We were lucky enough to have her give a
trunk show at our guild last year.

Very nice lady.

Cindy

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