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Survey time.... please add yours to the list... Kate in MI 08-06-2009
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Posted by Polly Esther on August 6, 2009, 11:43 pm
Our essentials seem pretty much the same. So. Let's wander off the path a
bit in this survey. What additions have you made to your quilting setup
that were not so good or a lovely asset?
Winner - I use our 'newlywed' kitchen table for a cutting table. DH has
put the battered old dear up on pvc so I don't have to stoop to cut. On top
is a 4 x 8 plywood sheet that was our firstborn's base for his trains and
steam engines.
Loser - my design board is covered in a pricey gridded flannel that
won't hold diddly without pins. I need the grid but cheap old poly terry
held everything much better.
Blooper - my SM quilting is heavy-handed. I've had to put tomato paste
cans beneath the SM's table to keep me from popping off the table's support
pins. That works great. Unless, of course, the cans eventually start
seeping after a few years and make a real mess.
Anyone? Polly



Posted by J* on August 7, 2009, 12:52 am
seeping tomato paste cans might keep the skunks away. the ones that get past
the gators that is.
isnt it tomatos that you use to rid yourself of skunk odour?
j.

"Polly Esther" wrote...
Our essentials seem pretty much the same. So. Let's wander off the path a
bit in this survey. What additions have you made to your quilting setup
that were not so good or a lovely asset?
Winner - I use our 'newlywed' kitchen table for a cutting table. DH has
put the battered old dear up on pvc so I don't have to stoop to cut. On top
is a 4 x 8 plywood sheet that was our firstborn's base for his trains and
steam engines.
Loser - my design board is covered in a pricey gridded flannel that
won't hold diddly without pins. I need the grid but cheap old poly terry
held everything much better.
Blooper - my SM quilting is heavy-handed. I've had to put tomato paste
cans beneath the SM's table to keep me from popping off the table's support
pins. That works great. Unless, of course, the cans eventually start
seeping after a few years and make a real mess.
Anyone? Polly




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Winner: Taking all the furniture out of the "den" we never used and
replacing
it with banquet tables, iron board, sewing maching and a real cutting
board.
Loser: Trying to use the "pretty box" system for fabric. I love
decorated
boxes, but I forget what fabric is in which box, and end up having to
open
them all.
Loser: Using my beloved homemade cedar chest that DH made for me in
High School shop class to store batting. The batting stinks now. :-(

Sherry


Posted by Roberta on August 7, 2009, 7:27 am
I've learned to stop and check the screw on the needle holder every
now and then while quilting. A couple of times, all those layers of
fabric going by at breakneck speed have just sucked the needle out!
And even though my machine is very smooth-running, there's some
vibration, enough to give me (another) loose screw. Not sure if this
qualifies under your thread, Polly.
Roberta in D

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:43:34 -0500, "Polly Esther"

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Posted by Maureen Wozniak on August 7, 2009, 11:00 am
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:43:34 -0500, Polly Esther wrote

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Winner:

A dedicated cutting table. My cutting has gotten so much more accurate at a
table the correct height with my favorite mat on it.

Loser:

Hard to believe, but, having too much stash. Sometimes I just get so
overwhelmed I can't work.

Sort of Blooper: (Only sort of because not much choice where we're living)

Having my sewing room in the basement. Allows me to be too isolated.
I think in a different house I'd want a room (with a door so I can shut
people out) near the kitchen so I wouldn't be so far removed from everything
else that is going on.


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