Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday.

A pool noodle is the unlikely quilting tool for today. I use pool noodles all of the time in my quilting and they have a very practical use.

Pool noodles come in great colours,

Do to lack of storage space in the houses I have lived in I needed to find a way to store my quilts easily and efficiently. I also didn’t want to fold them as the longer they are folded the less likely the creases will drop out.

I remember way back when an instructor told me about rolling them on pool noodles and I thought what a great idea. Now I am quite sure the local shop owner was probably wondering why I was buying so many pool noodles at once but I didn’t enlighten him. I certainly didn’t have a pool in my backyard in Yellowknife to put them to use.

For years now I have been rolling my quilts on pool noodles to store them. I roll them with the good side in and this came about because I had lived where it was always dusty. To store them I stand them on end in a huge basket.

A basket full of quilted pool noodles.

Multiple quilts can be rolled onto one noodle or if it is a large quilt then I only put one per noodle.

Multiple quilts on one noodle.

I secure along the edge of the quilts at the beginning of the rolling process with long pins. This ensures that the quilts do not sag.

Secure with pins at beginning of the rolling process.

Then I pin again along the edge of the quilts at the end of the rolling process.

Secure when rolling finished.

Very simple, inexpensive and works like a charm.

Happy Quilting!