Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Must-Have Sewing Tools

Useful list. 

I have the iron, cutting mat, cutting ruler, assorted sewing needles, assorted scissors and shears, seam gauge, tape measure, and seam ripper.

I also have a rotary cutter but found it not very useful.  My pincushion is the traditional tomato kind; I don't like the magnetic ones.  I do like glass-headed pins when I can get them, but couldn't swear to what kind I have currently.  I use books for pattern weights.

What did they miss?  Chalk.  I have tailor's chalk and could not do without it.  Carbon paper and a ballpoint tracer.  Yardstick.  Elephant tusk.
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  • 5 comments
paradigmshifty

paradigmshifty

July 16 2015, 02:57:26 UTC 5 years ago

Thimble?
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

July 16 2015, 03:01:28 UTC 5 years ago

Come to think of it, I do have a leather one for dealing with heavy materials.
rhodielady_47

rhodielady_47

July 16 2015, 03:06:11 UTC 5 years ago

There's a product called 'seams great' that I find extremely handy to keep in stock. I use it for covering ravelly raw edges inside garments, and for hemming.
If you can't find it locally, you can always buy nylon tulle and then cut it into bias strips however wide you want it with your rotary cutter.
I adore it for hemming jeans because it doesn't add bulk to the seam. It's also the best thing to use when you hem bell sleeves or flared skirts. (You just pull a tiny bit on the seams great as you sew it on the edge to be hemmed. Then you will find that the seam is gathered slightly--just enough for you to turn the raw edge down and then sew it down neatly.)

Maybe twelve years ago, I bought a felt-lined men's wooden tool chest. In it, I keep all my thread and sewing tools except for the large rulers and my sewing machines--it's the handiest thing ever!
I liked it so well, that I bought a second one to keep my jewelry in!
:^}
siliconshaman

siliconshaman

July 16 2015, 12:20:01 UTC 5 years ago

You know, it occurs to me that if you backed your cutting mat in that magnetic material stuff you can get for making notice boards, it would stick those steel pattern weights down, and stop pins escaping.


Elephant tusk though?
unmutual

unmutual

July 17 2015, 02:03:45 UTC 5 years ago

I'm not much for sewing (it makes me say bad words!) but I wouldn't leave tailor's chalk off a list like this :)

My great-grandmother was a seamstress, and there are several boxes of her chalk left. I have some pieces! ...which I use to mark stains on my t-shirts, when I notice them. The shirts go into a basket, and then when I have a stain-scrubbing day, I don't need to search too hard to find the spots.