Pins Buttons

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Patchwork can be much simpler if you follow a few of these suggestions:

- When chain piecing quilts, try a "safety blanket" (a small piece of discarded fabric) to start your chain piecing therefore the cloth fabric and threads do not jam up when starting to chain sew.

Trouble sewing with metallic thread and getting numerous thread breaks? Try out lowering the thread tension.

Fix the tape measure to the side of the stitching table with self stick velcro for quick and easy access.

Keep a compact magnet inside your stitching basket. Use it to grab any pins that drop on to the floor.

If quilting needles get rusty or dull, rub them lightly with fine steel wool to bring them back to life. Always leave some thread in a needle before putting it in a pin cushion. You'll be able to spot it more quickly.

Work with nice and clean, dry plastic egg cartons to store thread.

Store pattern pieces and their envelopes in self sealing bags so you can understand the pattern.

When patchwork items are completed, run doubled length of thread through a pile of patches, leaving the knotted end in the thread in the bottom of the stack. They'll stay together and you will pull off each one as required.

Before you stitch on buttons, coat the thread with wax. Simply run it around a candle more than once. This will make the thread stronger helping getting it through the holes.

For clean, razor-sharp and handy pins and needles, use a covered steel wool pad as a pin cushion.

Keep a chopstick in your sewing basket for all poking and stuffing needs.

If you are not certain where the seam is lying when you are quilting in the ditch, place a lamp or flashlight beneath the quilt and the seam allowances can be seen. When working with pinking shears also have material between your blades. Never open and close the cutters with out cloth together, this will dull the blades.

Use a low melt glue gun when working with net, tulle or sheer synthetic cloth fabric. A hot glue gun will burn you and melt the fabric.

Keep soap slivers in the freezer to use as markers for quilts. This keeps soap hard and easier to use. Additionally, it washes out without delay.

Avoid the frustration of threading frayed edges by folding thread in two, and yanking the smooth edge with the needle.

To Open that jammed Zipper: Rub the teeth with a bar of soap or spray with shaving cream.

Soap makes an ideal Pin Cushion: Use a bar of soap to make sewing easier and the needle just glides through hard fabric and materials.

For more information visit the Patchwork Online website at http://www.patchwork-online.com.au

Blare Your Company Name With Promotional Button Badges

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Where can I find plastic pins/buttons online?

I need to buy some blank plastic buttons/pins. The kind that you put a piece of paper (or picture) in the center and simply snap the two pieces of the button together and the picture is in it. Anyway I was looking for a place online where I can order buttons/pins like this in bulk so I can sell some of my artwork inside. If anyone can help me out please let me know. Thank you. ^w^

Try www. Day-Lab.com, they have some pretty cool buttons and pins!

Buttons up for big winners
Top sellers at Greywolf and Helen Haller elementary schools were given their choice of prizes after selling more than 2,000 Sequim Irrigation Festival buttons.

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