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Shed light on serger threading and cleaning

Shed light on serger threading and cleaning

Wear a backpacker's headlamp for extra light inside a machine

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Your ruler can determine grainline

Your ruler can determine grainline

Use your ruler and a bit of tape to help you position your pieces on grain.

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Use a machine stitch as a perfect guide for hand sewing

Use a machine stitch as a perfect guide for hand sewing

Baste a straight stitch using your machine and use the perfectly spaced stitches as a guide for evenly spaced hand stitches.

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Thread needles with a floss threader

Thread needles with a floss threader

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Look to the dental aisle at the drugstore for threaders that help make threading needles a cinch.

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Use Lint Roller Scraps From Your Sewing Room To Make Unique Cards

Use Lint Roller Scraps From Your Sewing Room To Make Unique Cards

When I finish a sewing project, I clean my sewing-room floor with an adhesive lint roller. When my lint roller’s outer layer becomes full of threads and lint, I affix it to folded card stock, creating a unique note card.

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Recycle plastic trays from the supermarket

Recycle plastic trays from the supermarket

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Empty plastic foam trays from the supermarket make great sewing notion storage for your workspace.

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New Use for Tailors Chalk

New Use for Tailor's Chalk

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Place one triangular piece of tailor's chalk in a box with your silver jewelry to keep it tarnish-free.

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Easy Turning Through the Seam

Easy Turning Through the Seam

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Whether you're making a pillow or a sash, use this tip to help you sew anything needed to be turned right-side out.

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Stray threads become artistic cards

Stray threads become artistic cards

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Recycle used lint roller papers that were used to clean up your thread mess and transform them into works of art.

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Keep fabric steady while ironing with a magnet

Keep fabric steady while ironing with a magnet

Magnets can be a sewers best friend at the ironing board.

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Spiral bobbin storage

Spiral bobbin storage

Use recycled bindings from notebooks to organize bobbins.

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Recycled fabric makes great piping

Recycled fabric makes great piping

Can't get to the fabric store? Use recycled strips of fabric as cording to create your own piping.

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Keep pins handy with an egg cup

Keep pins handy with an egg cup

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Egg cups make convenient, and super-cute, pin storage.

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Coldworking with Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Coldworking with Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Cold working: Revolution XT Tile Saw review I usually save all my cold working on my dichroic glass jewelry for one day of the week and do it for about 8-10 hours straight. Cold working is not my...

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Exotic bird dichroic fused glass pendant

Exotic bird dichroic fused glass pendant

Dichroic fused glass image pendant jewelry - a really cool blue dichroic color with an exotic bird image lined in 22kt gold by A.A.E. Glass Art. Dichroic glass focal bead with a beautiful display of...

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Mark even hems with string

Mark even hems with string

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Getting an even hem marked without a friend can be tough. Use a string covered with chalk to help you when a buddy isn't on hand.

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Organize your pattern stash

Organize your pattern stash

Create your own pattern library with a digital camera.

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Use a lightbulb for easy pressing

Use a lightbulb for easy pressing

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Quickly press small fabric and garment pieces with a light bulb.

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Keep bobbins and spools together

Keep bobbins and spools together

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Keep bobbins and spools organized with rubber bands.

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Reuse plastic bags for smooth sewing

Reuse plastic bags for smooth sewing

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Use recycled plastic bags to help tame tricky fabrics.

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