10 Weird or unusual tools I use in my SEWING ROOM EVERY DAY.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- These 10 unusual items I use in my sewing room might not be new to you if you're a seasoned seamster. But you may glean a bit of new information anyhow. I use these weird tools every time I sit down to sew or reupholster something.
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Here is a tip so you can use the cone thread on your regular machine . . . On your thread spool holder pin, I use a BIC ball point pin. Take the ink portion out of the plastic pin holder. Now with the ink park gone, put the plastic outer part of the pin onto the thread spool holder, and violla . . . Now you can use a serger spool.
Cool!
I just might pick up this idea. Thx
Clever! ❤
I use part of an old antenna in the sane way. The new metal straws might work too.
Smartie pants! Will use this one❤
I use a folding tv tray for a pressing table next to my sewing machine. Added batting and an old cover from my ironing board to cover it.
This is one of those ideas from several years back that I have forgotten! My husband and I are going to rearrange the rooms in our 2-story house as we both are having knee problems (his are really bad!) I sew upstairs and it’s getting to be a problem for either of us,to carry my machine down and then back up! Thank yiu for reminding me about making a pressing table without putting up my ironing board - and what a space saver! I use a wool pressing mat and it would be perfect to put on top of the covered table!
I also use a tv tray table for pressing. Cover with some Batting and some fabric and its great for ironing small pieces and having it right beside my sewing machine is so convenient, then when not needed fold it up and it takes hardly any space.
Don’t you need room for the iron when not using it?
@@joanknight2713 I move it away when I do not need. I also have a tiny iron that I can use. The tv tray sits to my right out of my way. I also move it to my left to help hold up a quilt if I am machine quilting
I have one tip that's important to me as a hand sewist. Silicone ear plugs (meant for swimmers) make wonderful thread conditioner! Much easier (and cheaper) for me to find and travel with than beeswax. Pull thread through the silicone putty and it smooths it and makes it much less prone to tangling. Also makes a convenient impromptu pincushion.
Wonderful idea! I have some I accidentally bought that now I know what to use it for! Thanks! ❤
Where would I buy these silicone ear plugs? Are they like the plugs one wears for noise reduction or a malleable substance? Do I need to go to a specialty swimming store? Tangled thread slows me down so.
@@c.g.7604 They are a translucent sort of putty. It's sold as blobs in a clear plastic box. I find them in any drugstore or grocery. They are meant to seal your ear from getting water in it, rather than noise-reduction type of ear plugs. Just google "swimmers ear plugs" and you should see some.
@c.g.7604 I accidentally bought them at WM.
They make a thread conditioner called Thread Heaven. There may be other kinds as well. I've seen that running the thread over a bar of soap works, too. I haven't tried that myself. But it would definitely be the cheapest option.
@@redeemedvintageseamstress4728 Personally I wouldn't involve soap as thread conditioner because sooner or later you'll go to thread a needle and lick the thread end and it will get soap into your mouth.
Good ideas. Instead of a Tic Tack container I use a prescription pill bottle for needles and small sharp cutting blades. Some bottles are large enough to place blades. They are also good for small hooks and eyes, buttons, hand sewing needles and many other small sewing items because you can write on the bottom or label them. If you are a gardener as well as a sewer, use the pill bottles to collect flower seeds. Use a sharpie to write the type of seed on the bottle. If you really want to be clever, store them on their side in a plastic bin with the label up.
Yes! Always looking for ways to use pill bottles
@@sewhealthy560 As a gardener too, I found my dark brown glass vitamin bottles are perfect for storing seeds.
Great idea for the seed storage.
I use a little spice jar for my broken needles
That’s what I use too
I am a retired nurse with hemostats baby!! So glad to see a fellow sewist that uses her nogin!
From another retired RN, I have used hemostats for sewing and many other uses around the house. BTW & FYI - to mimzy: Those "little ridge things" on your hemostat are called "teeth" There are two types of hemostats: "teethed" and "smooth". My unit used disposable trays of instruments and I collected all unused hemostats, scissors, and tweezers that were made of a metal that worked just fine for sterile and non-sterile procedures but were not made of metal that would withstand multiple trips thru the sterilizer. I cannot say how many times I have saved my fingers and/or fingernails from strain, my blood pressure from rising under stress, and even many little tiny things that seem to find the smallest crevice to fall into around the house. The hemostats also serve as an additional hand many times in the sewing/crafting room. I have a drawer in my sewing room that I keep many extra salvaged instruments in and am always grateful that I kept them. Also a recommendation that before disposing of the TicTac container full of sharps, Tape over the tab that opens with a piece of duct tape or other strong tape just to make it less likely to pop open unexpectedly.
Crafting also.
I’m a veterinarian and keep hemostats around the house for everything. Need to pull something that has no tab to hold it? Knots in strings or fabric. Untangle tiny chain necklaces with baby powder and hemostats. Poke holes in the dirt when I am sowing seeds inside for the spring. That’s just the start.
I even keep old needle drivers in my hand sewing kit because I’m more used to suturing than sewing anymore. 😂
Went to retreat once and my friend was using her hemostats to eat Cheetos. No cheese dust on her fingers when she sews! As a joke, several of us at retreats now pull out our hemostats and eat them with her. 😂😂😂
I got several sizes.
I use a chopstick to turn out corners-because it has a blunt tip, I don’t have to worry about pushing through your material. I also use chopstick to push fabric under the feet . . .
I use choostick for so many household tasks, so useful. I once tried to eat rice using them and failed miserably.
@karenbeyerlein997 I read that as chapstick and was so confused 😂
@@chigson47 😀
I recently made a garmet that required 20 eyelets and I don’t have a hole punch, so I used my awl to make a tiny hole, then my snips to make a little bigger, then a tapered paint brush with just a little larger diameter, a little more snipping, and then a tapered metal chopstick (from a set of reusable utensils) to finally get the hole big enough for the eyelets. 😂🎉
I do use chopsticks at home sometimes but never the slippery metal ones, so I have taken over that one as a permanent seeing tool. 😅
Better than a metal knitting needle, mainly because if you accidentally hit the metal needle with your machine needle while guiding fabric you'll not only break the machine needle but can mess up the timing on your machine.
I found this video helpful. I have been sewing all of my life, (I am 70) and I have always thought of sewing as solitary. I love that you tube allows sewers to share and refine their techniques. I, also, use many auto repair tools and surgical/dental tools. I could not imagine sewing without a hemostat at hand. I have a magnet bar on the wall over my work table for tools, but also as a place to park a threaded needle for a minute. (Got that at Harbor Freight.) My husband borrows my sewing tools for guitar repair, and vice-versa. I also could not be without my grandmother's lace crochet hook for snagging very small things. Its a 1 mm and about 100 years old, and in use daily.
hmm...I may have to order a 1mm crochet hook! Although I probably have one somewhere in all my stuff. My husband is a musician also! He plays the piano.😀
From the hardware store or auto shop, they have a magnet with a telescopic handle?? which is very handy for dropped pins. I love mine.
@@rozdealy441I used one of those telescoping magnets at work for paper clips..brilliant!
Just a tip:
I superglue a small piece of the hooky part of Velcro to the top of my machine, then stick a small strip of the soft part of the Velcro around the entire part of my unpicker. I always return the unpicker to the top of the machine where it stays put and in easy reach.
That’s a great idea! I love that!
I have 2 Kenmore sewing machines, an overlock and a Brother embroidery machine that is seldom used. For now we are using 3. My husband uses one when I need help, while I use both my Overlock and Kenmore machines. My first idea was to utilize my dresser and turned it into my actual sewing area. I pulled out a drawer partly out to place a melamine shelf than placed my Overlock on it, and to my left I have my sewing machine on a foldup table. Having turned the dresser into the center of the room, the opposite side has a table to use as a cutting area. As for supplies, I use two pencil turn tables that have several storage areas for, rulers, scissors, sewing supplies, it also has 3 little drawers for small items such as sewing machine needles etc. Each sewing machine has pin cushions, scissors, thread cutters, needle threaders that I also utilize to thread my overlock (I insert the threader from behind the needle), a great time saver. When I finish at the end of day, I tidy up the room. I can't really work when the room looks messy.
I take all my sewing kit and my machine to a school hall once a month for our Linus Project sewing group. I now use a mason jar containing clips, quilting safety pins, my stitch unpicker, a piece of tailors chalk, my walking foot and a small needle case and pencil. I made a domed pincushion on the metal, disc top of the jar for my pins. The only things that don’t fit in it are my snips, scissors and rotary blade… but I’m still pretty pleased with it.
@@billswifejo I like the way you used “stitch on picker” better than seam ripper. Seam ripper seems so chilling like Jack the Ripper or something. My sister had a cat named Rat Ripper. LOL
I love my desk that goes up and down. My daughter bought it for me. If I get tired of sitting , I can raise my desk and stand. ❤
Another tip for disposing sharp objects, you can wrap them in tape.
I have to admit, I was prepared to click away from the video quickly because most videos like this are eye rolling. You have some really great tips here. I am a quilter now but used to make slipcovers, drapes, bedding etc and your tips related to those tasks were right on, as well. Well done.
Thanks! slipcovers are my jam...let's hang out!
Me too!
But this was really innovative 👍
Not sure if these count as tools per say.
I keep scraps of the material I am sewing on right near my machines in in case I have to change threads, adjust tension, etc I can easily run a test sample on matching fabric so I'm less tempted to barrel on without testing.
I also use those scraps to collect up thread clippings as I sew. Rather than throwing each thread in a trash can separately I toss out the thread covered scrap at the end of a sewing session. This is particularly helpful in the winter when there is a lot of static and threads don't want to let go.
Using the tictac box for sewing sharps is Pure genius as is the tin for the rotary and exacto blades. The flower frog, genius too! All of your tricks are awesome and I am going to use all of them.
Just yesterday I threw out a tic-tac box 🤦♀️. But the trash did not go yet👏
Thanks! The video idea came to me , but then I thought i didn't have any unusual or original ideas. Then I sewed in silence for a while and realized as used my tools that it was all kinda odd. 🤣
Prescription bottles for needles - poke hole to the needle
Great ideas. I've moved to a smaller space and miss my handiman! I've been quilting over 50 years at least 5 new ideas
THANK YOU
I WILL RELOCATE THE HOSPITAL TABLE I BROUGHT FOR MY HUSBAND'S HOSPICE CARE!!
I have one too, never thought to bring it to my sewing space. I will use it as a pressing area, have always wanted an extension to my right that would hold my iron, etc. This is genius!
Used Dryer sheets are great for collecting loose threads and keeping static down. Your ideas were so creative and helpful. Re - use things we already have in new ways make’s sewing even more fun.
FWIW, used dryer sheets also make wonderful backing for any hole you want to patch. It's nondirectional, can be ironed, doesn't fray, and is lightweight but strong, so it does an excellent job as a support fabric to ensure a mended area won't rip out a second time.
@@Marialla.brilliant!
I love using cheap cuticle pushers with rubber angled tips to push silky fabric along the sewing foot. The rubber helps it not slip out of place. If need it to glide, just turn it around.
Brilliant!
Ooh, great idea. I have quite a few art and makeup tools with the small silicon/rubber ends on them. I'll give this a try. (Much better than sewing through a finger!)
Bicycle spoke to turn loops etc.
Oh, you have this old Bernina. The best of Bernina! Very new, just 35 something years old. Love it
Which model is hers, looks very similar to mine. Thanks!
@@capaeo5532I also have that machine still in use after 35 years - it's a Bernina 1130 - unless the owner knows better?
I used to write notes while in the shower..with eraseable markers..( single mom for 14 years)..it sure saved me time..
thaat's a great idea!
What a great collection of tips! Thank you for sharing them. The flower frog and magnet glued to a pretty bowl are my two favorites.
Slightly off topic...When travelling I use an empty dental floss container to hold pins, hand stitching needles and a bobbin wound with thread. The cutter on the floss container is also great to trim the thread.
Or... I use an empty eyes glass case to contain a travel sewing ki., with folding scissors. Alternatively, it can be used to contain a first aid kit.
I use an altoids tin. I had so many and didn't want to throw them away.
You're my kind of girl! Use your imagination and adapt what you have. Love it!
Thanks Ronda! yep...necessity breeds invention, my used to say.😁
Fantastic! It really is all about "making it work" isn't it? LOVE the barber chair situation!
yep! Like @timgunn says...Make it work. I can hear his voice.
Painted pebbles are great for pattern weights. Alternatively, large waters/grommets covered in colourful wash tape can also be used.
That’s a great idea. I spray painted mine white but the wash tape sounds better.
I use very big flat washers for that, like 5cm big. I made support to hold them, very useful
@KP-mb9jx Thanks for mentioning the pebbles! Why didn't I think of that...! My mind immediately went to tracing around my tiny hexagons I have punched out to make a Grandma's flower garden little rock. Thanks so much! 🤗🥰🤗
This is next level thinking outside the box. I love it! Makes things very efficient and I’m sure it saves you a ton of time because it makes everything easily accessible and the workflow run very smoothly. I don’t have anything like this to share but I am taking notes! Work smarter, not harder!😊Nice job Mimzy!
Yes ma’am! ❤
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I love your ideas and I def want an inexpensive way to create a drop in table for my machine!!! So glad I came across your video.❤❤
I think I may talk about the table a little more in my next WIP on Wednesday at 3:30.
A magnet glued to the bottom of my favorite little bowl. Im so excited about this idea!
I love it. pretty and functional.
#3 the flower frog idea is genius!
It really is!!
Love the video and tips from it and other sewists!
We are two of a kind. Almost all of your ideas/ unusual tools are already in use in my sewing room! 😊. Subscribed!!
The thread guide is a great idea. Also the sticky notes on the window. I have scraps of paper everywhere. I use hemostats a lot too.i also made the cell phone stand a few years ago. I got the idea, pattern from "its sew very easy." She is great. Love your table.
i used to have stacks of paper everywhere too. I only started using sticky notes a couple years ago.
@@elementgypsy Years ago a great sales rep convinced me I needed to hand out to clients sticky note pads with my business info on it.
In clearing out the office I found a box of 500 sticky note pads.
Guess what I’m going to do with them🤗🤗🤗
First time to see your videos, you are a genius at DIY IDEAS.
Thanks for watching! Welcome! I'm no genius...just doing what's necessary.😁 necessity breeds invention.
My must have tool is tweezers. When I have to rip out a seam with a seam ripper the tweezers are perfect for removing those tiny clipped pieces of thread.
I sometimes use a rubber to get tiny threads out after using seam ripper .
@@cathtaylor2771 I used to pick those tiny threads out (for hours, it seemed!) until I tried a lint roller (tape.) I will never use any other method. Try it and you will agree!😊
😂😂😂 that’s an eraser for those of us in the US.
Came to say the same thing a rubber(eraser)is quicker.
I love your modified barber's chair!
@7:07 Sewing in Silence, this is me! I love to process my own thoughts and I always have a light bulb moment! 😊💡💡💡
@@Lotus3six9 my best thinking happens when sewing in silence.
I use a clothes pin and a cup as a thread guide. Great ideas btw
That's a brilliant idea!
Great tips. I am with you. I like to think out of the box and I beautiful dishes. I love your magnetic bowl pin idea.
I’m so glad I found you what great use of products. I love this so much and how you purpose the table to fit your machine is brilliant.
Thank you! I love my sewing table!
You are a sewing genius . Thanks for so many great ideas that are time saving. Bless you I have been sewing foe years and never thought of some of these.
Hey Mimzy as a former florist I also use floral frogs, in addition to hemostats ask for the suture scissors, they are better than a seam ripper! Knitting needles or chopsticks do work great. I have small jars from sprinkles for my needles.love the dry erase markers on the windows idea. I have the same setup, pass fabric from sewing machine table to my cutting table. I need to lower my machine and will use the tips on how you did it.Does your chair also go up and down?
Great names think alike!😅. Yes my chair does go up and down. I’m loving my new table!
Yes! The Tic Tac container....I use that for spent needles, also!
I sew in silence as well. Not all of the time but most of the time. Like you it’s when new ideas come to mind. Great video. Thank you for sharing your tips!
it's therapy. 😉
I have a regular egg carton that I removed the top from, I use it for the small things I'm using on current projects. Like my tailors chalk, different foots, sewing machine tool, threads and extra bobbins.
Great idea! I sometimes see acrylic versions of the egg carton from storage supply departments...at the thrift store. It isn't a uni-tasker item any more!
Definitely adopting that idea! Thank you for sharing 😊
I am a novice sewer and have been having an urge to break out my sewing machine. Your tips are really going to assist me in getting setup. Thank you.
You’ve got this! I’m so glad to help!
You are a really crafty resourceful young lady. Those are some great tips. Thanks.
WOW! I just retired and was looking at converting my old school weighs, a ton hydraulic corner desk into a sewing table. Seeing what you did with yours has my creative juices flowing. Glad Your vid peaked my interest tonight. ❤❤
Piqued 😉
I use an empty plastic parmesan cheese container for old pins, needles and even rotary blades - the 45mm blades fit through the lid opening.
First time visiting. Your ideas & tips are awesome! Thank you🫶
These are some of the most helpful tips yet!🎉😊
0:58 love the tic tac container idea! I use a clean peanut butter container. I drilled a small hole in the center so I can just push the old needles through the hole. I open it up to put rotary blades or xacto knife blades in.
Great idea- the hole, that is, to quickly add the spent needle into the container.
I love all these things! I can't wait to use everything❤❤❤
Loved all your ideas! I’m going to start implementing some of them in my sewing room today!
Great tips! Thank you!
You're a genius!
Thank you ! Love all the ideals
thank you!
I love using a cheap palette knife for manipulating/pushing fabric around like you use the knitting needle. I use the kind made of metal with a wood handle. It looks a little like a mini flat trowel. Works fabulously for rouching, too…. Your floral frog idea is genius! Gonna give it a try. ☺️😁
Parcel tape, or another heavy duty tape (like duct, or carpet tape), is another great way of protecting fingers against discarded sewing machine needles, and also rotary blades. Just enclose each needle and blade in the tape, before placing them in the container you decide to use, prior to disposal.
I let out a squeak when you described your Ikea table. I'm sitting at one now and my husband's is on the other side of the room. We got them in the old days when a computer monitor took up the whole desk. We are retired from teaching now, so I may repurpose his table. It has a 4 foot extension on the long side and a half-moon rounded piece on the short end. There is also a shelf that clamps on to the back edge and has end pieces to keep books on. It sits high enough that you could put photo boxes or bins under it. Keep an eye out for more pieces from their Galant furniture line! (By the way, your standing pins in the bowl are lining up with the magnet's lines of force.) Thanks for the window tip! Love it!
@@debmeyer5751 ahhhhh, well I love the lines of force. 😂. Keeps my pins orderly.
I might steal the magnet on the bowl trick. I need to use my harbor freight club thing anyway!
yessss! Do it!
I’ve saved many of your Notches Sewing, ideas to Pinterest, so glad to see you!!!!
I watch a lot of peoples tips but yours are above everyone’s. Love them and it also shows how you think latently( hope that’s the right spelling )
Your channel just came up on my feed. My idea is that I use a ironing board at a right angle to my sewing machine table, It is adjusted just under the table so it makes a L shape. I have my serger on the left wide end of the board and I can use the rest of the board for whatever it is that I might be working with or on. I also would wind bobbins off of the large spools by holding a chopstick with the large spool sideways and the thread in the tension as it was winding. Now I've got the great ideas to eliminate that style of doing it. Thanks everyone!
great ideas! Thanks for sharing!
Great tips!
Wow. Every tip was so good. You’re an inspiration!❤️
☺ thank you.
I worked in the ER for years. We used disposable procedure trays. Salvaged hemostats, needle holders, tweezers and iris scissors are in almost every sewing space and craft box I have!
Do they dispose of useful things?
I love the iris scissors. Incredibly sharp and precise. That’s all I use for crafting.
Yes me too. They just throw them away so we recycled. Apparently they can’t be sterilized.
I had never even HEARD of a flower frog before! Thank you mimzy!
I love the idea of a flower frog - which I happened to find a good one yesrs ago in an antiques shop! The original use was to hold the stem end of flowers in a container to keep the flowers from drooping all over! The glass o es are perfect but I have seen a very few in ceramic!
I use a mug tree for my scissors etc 😊
You can get one for mason jars, or make your own by using the mason jar ring and a cut piece of hardware cloth or chicken wire inside it.
I love your little helpful tools here! Thank you.
Those are great suggestions! Bravo!
Love pretty bowls. Magnet looks like the best way to go. Doing that. Ice pick is great to use also. Thank you 🪡
Yep! You’re right about the ice pick!
I love pretty bowls used in ordinary functional ways too. Romancing the ordinary!
I use a bamboo skewer in case the tip gets under the needle accidentally, it won’t break the needle.
These are excellent ideas!! Thanks !! xoxo
Thank you for this video I have learned several things! Your a breath of fresh air 😊
☺thank you.
Love the tic tac box! Fantastic tips! Thank you!😊 Really good!
I absolutely love your sewing table! Such a great idea
Great tips! I'm so excited to learn something new to help such common sewing issues!
Loved your ideas, and the creative energy you project. I'm going to redo my machine setup, just like yours. Thanks again.
Love the Tic Toc box idea!!
I have a cocoa can with a plastic lid, with a button hold slit in the top, thats my dangerous item trash collector. I shake every once a while to see if it’s time to change out.
@@IMOO1896 great idea!
I use a tylenol jar…it’s my needle hospice.
@@HLPiepgrass hilarious! I may switch so i can use that!
You are wonderful, Mimzy! These are great tips!
Chopsticks, prescription bottles, for sharps/rotary blades, glass vases so I can see all my scissors, pipe cleaners, dipping sauce bowls for small items, and of course a lot of those round cookie tins filled with sewing stuff!
Tic Tac box is an excellent idea!
You sound like me! I was wanting the table for the purpose of sewing and helping my back and legs. My best friend gifted me the best one to match my sewing room in November for Christmas early so it would benefit me with the remaining projects I was doing last year. It’s wonderful! I now am in search of the perfect chair. Looking to purchase a dental assistant chair like my dentist has at her office. 😊 First time here and it wont be my last. We have lots in common! ❤ Love the ones I’d not seen before. Great minds think alike. 😂
The dentist assistant chair would be perfect! great idea! Thanks for commenting Connie! Welcome to the club.😄
I'm just learning to sew, and I appreciate all your ingenious use of "tools". I'm looking forward to learning more from you!
Welcome! Sewing is so much fun!
Brilliant video. Thank you.🎉
Thanks Bridget!
Such great ideas. Thank you for sharing
thanks!☺
For many years I used C clamps from Lowes as third hands. Clamp one end of the fabric or whatever to the end of the table to free up both hands and provide tension to whatever I worked on. I was gifted a sewing bird a few years back and it's nice, but the clamps are still in use.
I collect glass flower frogs and I love them! They are so pretty, but I never thought of using them to hold my crochet hooks! I will now!
I use the big Tic TAC containers, the rounded ones. They come in red, orange, white and yellow.
They have a big flip top that closes quite securely. I keep a yarn cutter, yarn needles, a few fabric Band-Aids to cover the dent in my finger the yarn makes, a half a measuring tape and a few stitch markers in it. Going to add a tiny sticky note pad and a small pencil now! My crochet kit holds everything I could need handy in my work basket.
When I'm away from home, I've got my work basket. Why waste time when I'm waiting for an appiintment? I could be working on my latest project! Now, after many years of this, people who know me always want to see what I'm making!
I am so happy to have stumbled into your video with those wonderful tips and all the comments with more tips. Now I only wish for a sewing machine for left handed people.. That would be pure bliss :)
😮I never even thought about a lefty sewing machine! It makes sense to have them though!
I Love all your ideas thank you so much ❤🙏 to you.
Love the set up. I lost my sewing tables in Milton also. Lost all my machines in Ian. Love the way you modified that table. Definitely going to keep an eye out for something like that. Melinda
oh man! That stinks. You must be closer to the ocean than me. Are on the west coast of FL?
@ yes west coast Fort Myers. Hopefully no storms this summer
@@MelindasLifeandstyle I like your thrift haul content. Where do you sell most of your clothes?
I use flower frogs in my art room for brushes and I got an antique bullet maker at a flea market which is perfect for pencils an it is solid cast iron and stands up taking minimal table space. I love your glasses... where did you get them?
I love putting things to good use. Thank you. I got my glasses at an optical store in downtown Tampa called Designing Eyes Optical. They tons of really cool and funky glasses.
Thank you for the video , your ideas are brilliant 👏
This whole thing is so lovely🥰
Thank you for sharing. I’m so grateful to find you on TH-cam
Nice tips! The best tool you own is that Bernina! I have an 1130 that dealers tell me is the best sewing machine ever made. They offer me what I paid for it in 1988! I will never sell it. I will be shopping for an L bracket! I use a three-tier Ikea cart instead of the tray on wheels. I have a LOT of stuff, lol! Love what you did with that table, but I don’t have the ability to do that. I could use the table anyway, flipped as you did, and just set my machine on top. I am setting up a new home, so now’s the time to indulge in what really works! I keep a spiral notebook for those deep thoughts and ideas I have while sewing. I put to-do and shopping lists in my iPad, which I keep nearby and silence the iPhone. Whatever I have in one device is also in the other, so I have access to all my files when I shop, which includes my digital patterns with their list of supplies for making that pattern. (Same for recipes, which have all ingredients needed, and I can’t tell you how valuable THAT is when I am at the supermarket!) Thank you!
YES! I agree about the Bernina. My sewing machine technician that used to come to my house service/clean my machine once a year told me the same thing. He said DON'T EVER get rid of this machine. He said it's ALL metal parts and will last forever. I can attest to that...I use this machine every single day and I really push it to the max. AND before me, my mom used even more than me I think. She was religious about her work schedule, 7am-4pm every day. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to comment. You sound very organized with your iPad and patterns and shopping list...maybe I need an iPad.🤔
I just wanted to say thanks for all the tips but moreover thanks for the inspiration. You have been blessed with an amazing energy. Thank you for sharing it with others🙏
Many clever ideas...thank you
thank you.☺
Oh my, you are so clever and handy. Great ideas! Thanks so much for sharing them with us.
Love your ingenuity! ❤
You have some of the best, thinkers ideas!
Thank you!😊
Some things I already do but love the flower frog idea!
Great video! Thank you!❤😊