Tag: tools

• DIY Pattern Weights

  Pinterest strikes again!  I’ve been noticing lots of pins with instructions on how to make your own pattern weights.  Pattern weights have always been a frivolous tool that never really found a place in my sewing tool budget.  Then, I saw the extremely large washers from a hardware store that appeared in my Pinterest feed one […]

  Aleeah McGinnis

  October 5, 2014

  Crafting, Sewing, Tools

  hardware, pattern, pattern weights, sewing, sewing tools, tools, washers

• New Sewing Tool: Cross-Lock Tweezers

  I have discovered a new sewing tool.  It is a set of tweezers that I found while digging through the surgical supply tools in a vendor booth at a quilt show.  But this is not any ordinary set of tweezers.  They have a “cross-lock action” meaning through some magic of physics both blades cross and […]

  Aleeah McGinnis

  September 23, 2014

  Sewing, Tools

  forceps, sewing, sewing tools, surgical supply tools, tools, tweezers