Ohio LongArm Quilters
June 20, 2015 Meeting
Joanne Fox

Start County District Library at Glen Oak High School
1803 Schneider St. NE
Canton  44721
330-494-3399

11:00am

We are Clever People!  Share your inventions, tips, tricks and clever things
that save time with the group.
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Lunch
This month's raffle winner
Jennie Roberts
Tips on how to
pre-wash your fabrics
- using Retayne,
Synthrapol and color
catchers to set the
dyes and prevent the
colors from running.
Use a Toya gauge
and the chart from
Superior Threads to
check your bobbin
tension.
Make it easy to view
your pantographs by
keeping a copy of
each in sheet
protectors in a 3-ring
binder.
Make your own notion tray with kitchen
drawer organizers and curtain rods.
Remove the blue marking lines with a solution
made expecially for that purpose.
Attach something to the 1" end of your take
measure to quickly find the right end.
Insert chalk in the end of each holder
and use to make evenly spaced lines
on your quilt top.
Use a thread picker in the unlikely
event you have to unsew.
Use a rule with both vertical and
horizontal marking lines to help you
keep your stitching lined up properly.
Use a piece of foam on top of your quilt to
stuff under the roller to make the tension on
the quilt a little tighter.  This will make it
much easher to accurrately stitch small
designs.  The thicker the foam, the greater
the tension.
Attach this small notion holder to your
hanle bar with a tie wrap to keep your
scissors and thread ripper handy.
Ourline a motif that you've quilted to
act as a buffer around the motif so that
cross-hatching doesn't run into it.
Create your own light box to mark your quilt top while it is on the machine.   
Download a flashlight app on your smartphone and use this as your light source.  
Place the lighted phone under the qult top (on top of the batting) with a clear
plastic tub lid over it.  Then place the pattern to be traced on top of the lid.