hi and welcome to Darvanalee Designs Studio my name's Nicole Reed and welcome
to our new series of quilting basics so today I thought I would go through some
of the quilting tools that I have on hand in my quilting studio so first and
foremost we need something to cut our fabric and while there are you should
have some dressmaking scissors and everything on hand the most used item in
my sewing room is our 45 millimeter rotary cutter and also a 28 millimeter
rotary cutter they are what I use all the time for my cutting I rarely use
scissors and if I do use scissors then I would be using my pinking shears so
moving on from that I always have a set of paper scissors in my room because you
need to have them for foundation paper piecing and you don't want to wreck your
good scissors the next must-have item are your thread snips now while my
sewing machines come with little snips on the side or a little blade where you
can cut your thread thread snips are invaluable next you would want to have
four so you can do your cutting you want to have a good quality cutting mat
cutting mat that you can see under my tools the Aqua there is a Lori Holt
cutting mat and she is from being in my bonnet so if you want to go and have a
look at some of her beautiful things that you can head over to her website
just search Larry Holt and she'll come up I'll also leave a link down below
where you can find her website we do stock these cutting mats in our store so
for local pickup only because they are huge this particular one that you're
looking at in view now is 36 by 22 I think or 24 24 inches so you can imagine
they a little bit big to send in the post the next thing that I cannot live
without are all my rulers now I have a variety of different rulers
and I have everything from 2-inch right up to 16 and a half inch so that's an
omni grid to two-inch one that's really good for I use for a little too when
I've got to cut two and a half inch squares I'll just go around it and it's
perfect and then I go up from there up to 16 and a half but the ones that I use
the most are six and a half to 12 and a half inches twelve and a half inches
square nine and a half inches square and a six and a half inches Sweatt square
and then to cut the width of the fabric I just have this particular ruler here
it is 24 inches long which it doesn't fit on camera and it's only three and a
half inches wide now I'm not very particular on what
brand I use if it feels good to use I always try to test it out in the store
or I get a sample in if I'm going to stock it in my shop because I don't
stock all brands so I do stock these less sumit ones and I find them to be
very easy to read they've got good markings on them good solid lines on
them they're non-slip which is really good and that's what I go for for a
ruler so that's the rulers and I'll just move them out of the way now and I do
have like I said I do have a variety of different sizes I even have a one inch
by six inch little raw that I use for my foundation paper piecing so that may be
another one another size that you want to get in okay next we move on to pins
what we need to pin our work with and I use a variety of different pins it
depends on the application but for most of my work I use these little glass head
pins now I've had many different brands over the years I find these little house
ones are really cute they come in a cute little bottle as you can see to store
them and then I just put them in a little handmade pincushion their glass
head so they won't melt if your iron hits them and I try to use glass head
pins all the time but sometimes I do use my longer pins which are flat pin that
have a plastic flower head so I do use the glass head pins
lot more than the plastic ones then we move on to your marking devices so I
have two sorts of marking devices that I use I use friction pins for just about
everything on a customer's quilt though I actually use a choco pen and I try to
use I do a test on the choco pens before I use them to see if they're going to
come off okay but for the most part I for my own personal work I just use the
friction pins they own off and I use them in my diary as well because I can
rub them out if I need to rub them out the next thing I use a lot of and have
always got in my our sewing room is best press I love the stuff it's perfect for
my application of patchwork and all that sort of stuff so it gets all the creases
out and I very rarely haven't any issue gives it a little bit of structure to
the fabric as well so it makes it a lot easier to cut and work with my
suggestion with the best press and any other sizing or starch or anything that
you put into your onto your fabrics do it before you cut because you can change
the structure of the fabric if you do it after you cut just a little tip there
okay next we move on to threads now for my piecing I generally use a 50 weight
thread sometimes a 40 weight thread and I generally use a polyester
I just find it to be stronger and
depending on the quilt that I'm making whether I'll use cotton or not I get
less lint from a polyester the thread is stronger and I just use either aurifil
or Goodman and the four colors that I have in my kit and that I always have on
hand is black gray white and cream so if I can't match it with a white or a cream
and I've got a darker fabric and I don't actually have any black on hand I will
use the light gray because it will blend with most colors and I use that on navy
blue and everything so there the colors that I use for all my piecing next we've
got the most controversial tool I suppose the quick
unpick the ever reminding us that it's there becomes our best friend for some
projects at the quick and peek so my sewing machines come with a quick unpick
and I would recommend that you go and purchase yourself a really good quality
quick unpick because you are going to use it more often than not so you can
see this one here and if you've seen last week's video you would have seen me
do a review on this particular one this one I spent $24 on it and the ends
actually come out so you can put them away and they're not going to get
anybody and they've got a nice blunt end so that is the quick and pick side of it
and on the other side I have our tailors all on it but I actually use this
sometimes to help me get thick seams through or when I've done a lot of
points and my machine is just struggling a little bit to get over all that where
the points are all coming into on the patchwork block that I'm working on I'll
use this just under the edge and just help help it go through the machine so
it is in a valuable tool that one so that's the quick unpick the next thing
that you would possibly want to have and not everybody does have in their tools
is a hand presser so if your father if you'll be following
along with our foundation paper piecing block of the month this year you will
actually see me use this a quite a bit I use this mostly when I'm foundation
paper piecing because my iron is not near my sewing machine and when you've
got to so lots of little pieces together this is an invaluable tool for pressing
before the final press so I can move on to each step the next thing that I use a
lot of is actually these wonderful little clips and I use these for binding
these are wonder Clips clover I think we're the first to bring them out now
and many other companies have them and they're just wonderful they they clamp a
whole multitude of things together I've even used these for bag making and
things like that so they're not just a quilting tool these ones
and next we move on to our needles now I usually have a variety of different
needles in my stash I have sharps so you everyday sewing needles then I usually
have quilters need a quilting needles so they're a smaller needle and sometimes
for my binding I actually use a beading needle because it has a little bit of
flex in it especially if I'm doing a large quilt and it's just a little bit
finer and it just flexes a little bit easier to help me not go through to the
front of my quilt when I'm binding so they and also I have a tape measure
because sometimes you think that you've measured something and when I'm sitting
at the sewing machine rather than getting up and grabbing my rulers again
I have a little tape measure beside and I can just double-check those
measurements so they are the tools that I use on a regular basis these are
always near my sewing machine they're just at hands reach and I hope that this
really helps you if you're just starting out on your quilting journey or even
your sewing journey because you would use a lot of these in your sewing as
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name's Nicole Reed for Darvanalee Designs studio and these is quilting
basics bye for now
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