by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. I’m always very skeptical when it comes to gadgets and tools especially ones that could leave a mark or residue on my work. Last year when I was teaching one of my Bargello Sunflower workshops at Quilty Pleasures...
by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. I have an awful time using a thimble – in fact I become all thumbs when one even comes near me. I’ve tried all kinds – metal, leather, silicone but still all thumbs. As a result I often have sore...
by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. I’m always looking for ways to make my life easier in the studio and the other day I discovered this new cutting system from TrueCut which includes rulers and rotary cutters. I brought it home and gave it a...
by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. My iron has never been such a mess. I am always so careful to use pressing cloths and Teflon sheets for applique and other fusible products to keep all that nasty glue and gunk off my iron. Well, I was making a memory...
by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. I’ve had a few ironing board covers over the years, some that have lasted quite a while and others that have only lasted a few weeks. Now I have one called The Steady Betty Superior Pressing Surface which came...
by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. I am so happy H.A. Kidd passed this tool onto me because I won’t have sore fingers when I have done basting my quilts. My favourite way to baste quilts is with safety pins but my fingers are sore at the end...