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Household Items that Double as Sewing Tools
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- Stitch up a storm with these clever everyday items that double as sewing tools. These are 5 not sewing tools I have in my sewing room. Blog post with more info and product links here ↓
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I always keep large erasers with my sewing essentials. Whenever I have to rip out stitches I just gently rub the eraser over the stitches that I ripped out with seam ripper and it pulls them out of the fabric SO much faster than individually picking them out. Also I keep the disposable cutting mats from dollar tree to use for making templates of things I cut out often. Much sturdier than card stock and last so much longer. I also buy the rolls of brown craft/packaging paper at dollar tree and cut out a sturdier copy of my patterns that I purchase from stores and keep the original as my master copy and use brown paper pattern as my pattern pieces. The brown paper is easily replaceable as opposed to the thin tissue paper patterns! I also keep tissue paper from the gift wrapping section to use in between my feed dogs and delicate materials. It can be removed from the stitches with no damage to the stitches and protects the delicate materials. It’s also relatively inexpensive considering how large one sheet of it is! I also use masking tape from dollar tree to mark my rulers, hold patterns/zippers down, to hold the end of my threads when I place them on holder (to prevent them from fraying/getting tangled) I also use a knitting needle from dollar tree as a point turner and a make up brush to clean inside of my machines. I use pipe cleaners as well. I keep a lighter in my sewing essentials instead of matches. hope these tips help! Thank you for the video!
Thanks for sharing!
Your tips are great, thank you!
All great ideas! Thank you! I also use blue painters tape to label the right (or wrong) sides of my fabric.
Great tip!
I use parchment paper when pressing to protect my iron or my project. I also use large washers as pattern weights, and chopsticks make great point turners.
Great tips!
I use all of these tools as well except for the homemade pressing gauge, I will make one! 😊👍
My household tool tips:
- A magnet to catch a needle part if it breaks in the machine.
- a makeup brush as a dust cleaner in my sewing machines
- a magnet on a stick is also great for picking up needles of the floor
- I keep my serger thread cones stacked one on top of the other for space saving.
To keep them stacked and not fall over I put a chopstick in the center.
- I tried dental floss for a gathering technique but the minty smell was too overpowering…
Thanks for sharing!
I love using washable markers! Thank you for these great tips! My non - sewing item is a teapot. I have a beautiful teapot that I keep filled with water for my iron. The spout is perfect so I don't spill any, and I can easily pour any unused water back into the teapot for next time.
Good idea!
1-Instead of matches, I’ve purchased rechargeable candle 🕯 lighters (USB connection). 2-gift wrap tissue paper if my machine starts wanting to eat the fabric (or Big4 patterns tissue paper scraps). I can’t put a walking foot on my Pfaff and the IDT thing doesn’t always help on super fine fabric or super thin knits. Therefore, if I’m going to start stitching a fabric that machine might eat, I’ll place a piece of tissue paper at the beginning underneath so the fabric feeds better. 3-Clean hardwood kitchen cutting board made a great tailor’s clapper until I could purchase one.
Thanks for sharing!
Q-tips for cleaning my machines. After every project with a little oiling and machines stay happy.
Thanks for sharing!
I use washers from the hardware store for pattern weights.
I recently purchased a wedding aisle runner from the dollar store to trace which size of my pattern I want to use. I have several vintage patterns and I don’t want to cut them. It is much sturdier than the tissue patterns.
Love the suggestions you gave-especially the erasable markers!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the great tips! I'll definitely buy some erasable markers since I've bought so many types of fabric markers that don't mark week on some knits.
I use blue painters tape to mark and label cut out fabric pieces that look similar, ie "back left side". I've used tuna cans as fabric weights, which works well until someone gets hungry for lunch!
LOL! Thanks for sharing.
Try using old shards of soap for knits, instead of throwing the arse end of the soap away 😂 It marks knits really well and washes out, I use soap like 95% of the time these days.
Great ideas, as usual. Thanks for sharing them with us.
Thanks for watching!
Thankyou, brilliant ideas especially the tape and card to help with hems x
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the great tips! Love the idea with taping the zipper, I've seen it before in some 5 minutes crafts video and couldn't understand what the point of it was, but yes, pins totally warp the whole thing. No brilliant tips from me I suppose, only maybe a reminder that a hand sewing kit stores well in a flat biscuit tin, preferably a rectangular one :)
Glad it was helpful!
Very useful information ,thanks Melly.
Thanks for watching!
Excellent tips. Thank you. 👍
My pleasure!
I love the starch tip, as I sew lots of knit fabrics and always DREAD the hemming process. Sleeves, fine. Neckline, fine. Hem - arggggghhhh! I keep small shards of soap handy to use as a marker as it washes out and can be used on so many different fabrics. I use soap to outline patterns 95% of the time these days. Soap and heat erasable frixion pens.
Thanks for sharing!
I keep a basic hammer. It helps with grommets and if I have a really thick seam I sometimes bang it down before stitching it
Thanks for sharing!
Omg, starch is such a good idea! Definitely going to be using that on my next knit project!
It really is!
I have all of those but the matches! You taught me about those markers!! I use them all the time now ☺️
They do work great!
Great tips! Thank you 😊
Thanks for watching!
I use my needle nose plyers to change sewing needles because my fingers can’t reach properly
Great tip!
Will try the tape on zippers trick. Also as a quilter who uses starch on cotton, I never thought of using starch on knits or rayon challis. Great tip!
It helps a lot!
Great ideas thank yiu
Glad you like them!
Instead of a match (The flame runs up the match to your fingers too quickly), a lighted candle or cigarette lighter can work too. When I "burn" the ends of the ribbon, I have water to dunk the end in right after so it doesn't continue to "burn" up the ribbon.
Yes, those are other choices
Chop sticks for poking out corners and painters tape to create a ledge for precise seams, especially when I make a quilt.
thanks for sharing!
Magnetic small laser pointer to aim down along the plate for an accurate line to follow.
Good idea!
I have a Tupperware orange peeler - I believe they used to be given out as freebies along with orders - that I use when I’m turning things inside out or right side out.
I remember one of those growing up - but I never used it in sewing!
I use a dental hook to release the thread on my coverstitch machine. So much easier than the tweezers. Make sure your blunt the end before using one.
Thanks for sharing!
I have some heavy (granite?) coasters that the previous tenants in my house left behind that make the perfect pattern weights.
Great tip!
Love your channel. Maybe a Few other viewers can benefit from your ideas. Serger seams itch me so I never use them. I need to find something to cover store purchased blouses serger seams. They itch me terribly. And when sewing new blouses I use French seams - what about for thicker fabric to close = cover seams for comfort.
You could try doing a bias bound seam to cover the serger stitches.
Hello Can I ask what type of tape you used .I am from Australia we call cello tape sticky tape here..wondering if would do the same
The tape I'm using here is the same kind you use for wrapping gifts.
I don’t dare light matches on my home, learned that after lightning a candle during a blackout, all the house smoke alarms went off and wouldn’t stop, we had to take them all down and set them. Definitely do outside.
Yikes! Yeah, I'd keep this outside if I had smoke detectors that sensitive too.
@@Mellysews what’s really weird is, we have a traeger which smokes and barbecues, when the wind is blowing from the east during the summer, the smoke gets in the house big time, because we use an ac unit which vents out the window, so there’s gaps, the alarms don’t go off at all, but light a candle with a lighter or match, they all go off lol
Instead of starch vodka is cheaper. Decide the dilution of water to vodka
Vodka is good for smell removal; not so great to add stiffness to the fabric.
You look so much like tinashe in the cover of this video
Thanks.