Category: Product reviews
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Product Review: White and light markers and pens
I’ve been stockpiling solid color fabrics while the holiday sales have been in full-force. I like to write the brand and color name on each fabric before I pre-wash them. That way I’ll know exactly what to re-order if I need more. I love using my Pentel Gel Roller for Fabric to mark my fabric…
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Product Review: Imak Arthritis Gloves
Another day, another opportunity to test out a different machine quilting aid. Well, technically these are not for machine quilting. The gloves I tried out today are Imak Arthritis Gloves. The funny thing is that so far, this is the product I’ve liked best and might actually use. One thing I liked was that the…
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Product Review: Fons and Porter Machine Quilting Grip Gloves
After doing a multitude of other urgent activities, I finally worked in another hour on my quilt. I decided to multitask and test out another machine quilting aid. This time I used my friend’s Fons and Porter Machine Quilting Grip Gloves. I think hers were a size small, so they didn’t really fit my hands…
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Product Review: The Fabulous Fabric Glide
I squeezed in a few minutes today to finish quilting the mother’s hair. Yesterday, I asked a friend and fellow quilter if she had any free-motion quilting aids I could try out. She let me borrow The Fabulous Fabric Glide by The Gypsy Quilter. This product comes as a set of square “hoops” in two…
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Product Review: Quilter’s Grip
Not too long ago, I purchased a set of Quilter’s Grips when Joann’s had their notions half price. I’ll be honest — I was probably tempted to buy them because they were blue, but I always like trying out new gadgets, too. The manufacturer says, “Using Quilters Grips gives you a rigid grip for pushing…
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Product review: Finger Gloves
My self-declared Preparation Day ended up being all about the food. On Tuesday, I spent some time searching the internet for new recipes. After my usual Wednesday chores, I had fun getting some of the special Thanksgiving food prepared in advanced. In fact, I spent all my extra time cooking, so was no quilt preparation…
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Revisiting Surrender and Product review: Sew E-Z Board
I started a new project this week or, depending on how you look at it, I’m revisiting an old one. I was recently contacted by a pediatric medical director for a not-for-profit hospice that accepts children. While they have beautiful traditional quilts on their walls to comfort the families, they just opened a new unit…
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Winner of Timeless Star
We have a winner! I turned to the random number generator on Random.org and the winner is #15, Sharon Driver! Congratulations, Sharon. I’ll be sending you my copy of Timeless Star. Enjoy!
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Product Review: Timeless Star
If you’re looking for a good summertime novel about quilters, you might want to consider Timeless Star by Lynn Thompson, the pseudonym for Diana Forrester and Mary Clark of Double D Press. The mystery novel revolves around a group of ladies who go to a two week long antique quilt symposium. They go to learn…
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Product Review: EcoluxLighting
I had to make myself stop fiddling with the top and get on with it. Yesterday morning, I pin basted the quilt layers. Then I spent some time cleaning up my sewing area. I had to dig out George from under all the clutter that collects over time. Still unwilling to actually quilt something, I…