I like using the tape to wrapup old blades.

0h ,y goodness theses are some good habits to get into, I like your blade disposal method. I keep the containers but if there are multiples, for whatever reason, they never all get back in there. Thanks so much for such a great video.

Love these tips and love you, too! Thanks for your no-nonsense, fun approach! I dispose of my rotary blades by putting them in the original case (several will fit), and taping it shut when it's full.

Some I do, some I will definitely start doing

I watched this several days ago, but keep thinking about it. I think a good habit for all of us is to keep a bottle of water handy. Sometimes we get so busy being creative that we neglect the basics of good health like staying hydrated.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

That's a great idea Wanda💦

Great advice

Lots of good tips. I recently bought a pair of curved scissors and what a difference. Keep them next to my machine.

I work at a transfer station (aka, a recycling center or *ugh* the dump). We require our customers who use sharps to put them into a detergent bottle and tape the cap on very securely. This then goes into the compactor with other household waste.

Love your videos! New quilter myself so they are so helpful

Thank you for the tips. 😊

Great ideas as always ❤

Love the stay stitch idea.

Superb content…❤

I bought a small medical Sharps container for my used for needles and rotary blades

Great tips and habits! Thank you, Tracy! Love the tip about labeling it right in the free motion quilting, but they are all great. ❤️

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Kris....I feel like FMQing "something" is better than nothing LOL🤣

I have a old gum container for my blades needles and bent pins. I chew a lot of gum so I can just toss the whole container and it is safe for everyone

Great tips I especially like the reminder about our trimmers.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!❤️

Amazing pattern.

Really liking these smart tips/quilting habits to adopt! I’m going to work all of them into my quilting “zone!”

Yes. I have cut the back (and the top) of some of my quilts while trimming strings. That's a great idea. I do own a small wooden free standing cabinet that I can put a lock on. I could store (and lock up) all my cutting and ripping tools in that cabinet (along with many small items like sewing machine tools, feet, oil, bobbins, marking tools, needles, pins, loaded pin cushions, etc.) so they will not be misused, damaged, taken, or swallowed. Wonderful idea. I need to make a trip to the hardware store today to make my sewing room a safer place for everyone. Thank you for teaching me a better way of using what I already own.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Arvetta...(after "snipping" the backs of a couple quilts...I now "always" grab the curved snips...always!!!✅)

On my first quilt 50 years ago I did not iron a single seam, quilt top finally got ironed when I finished it. BIG MISTAKE. Would not lay flat at all. Looked like crap. Now I absolutely iron every time I sew a seam and I get great results always.

Mic check ✅️

Thanks for all your great hints and suggestions. I am just learning to quilt and your videos have really given me the confidence to try new things and just have fun with it! 😊

Thanks so much for the helpful tips. Great fast way to label a quilt; don't know why that seems like such a chore. I save the packaging the rotary blades come in to store old blades. When it's full, I tape or staple it shut before tossing it in trash. Happy Easter!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Happy Easter to you too Julia✝️💐

Thanks for the tips

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome❣️

Thanks💐

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

Thank You Tracy, some very good tips for sure.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Excellent ideas. Thank you for sharing.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Great habits to use, as usual! Thanks Tracey!!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!🥰

Such great habits. Thanks!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!❣️

Thanks❤

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊

Great habits to get into. I'm sure most of us do these things but a reminder is always appreciated. Thanks again, Tracy

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!❤️

The two quilts behind you are adorable!!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

❤️

My husband is diabetic, so I dispose of my old rotary blades & sewing machine needles by putting them in with his insulin needles.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thats great that you have access to do that....that is ideal for sure✅

❤awesome tips Thank you

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!🤩

I baste my straps with Elmer's glue and heat set it. I don't always remember to turn it around. The glue stabilizes it enough that it doesn't bow. Also I love your scrap bag system on you wall.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the glue tip Carrie❣️

I put my old rotary blades back in a plastic container they come in. When it's full, I'll tape that plastic container securely shut before disposing of them. Much less chance of someone getting cut that way.

The best tip I have for disposing of used rotary blades, blunt needles, and bent or blunt pins is a jar of 3/4 full white vinegar, drop them into it, put the lid on and let the vinegar dissolve them. I call them my Rust Monsters. About once a year I make a fresh jar and put the old one aside till everything in it is dissolved. Then it can be dumped out in a back corner of the garden, in the compost, or even strained and the rust fluid used to make interesting cloth dye for slow stitching journals etc.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Great ideas❣️

@margaretlewis2289

Жыл бұрын

Interesting, I didn’t have a clue white vinegar would dissolve a rotary blade. Makes sense though because of the acidity of vinegar

Thanks for the wonderful and thorough tips and habits that will make our quilting experience so much better 😀

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome❣️

I almost always stay stitch. It saves grief later on.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You are so right Wanda✅

I've started doing some of things a while ago. The best one is stay stitching around my quilts. I've actually started stay stitching my quilt before I put the borders on. I find it makes sewing on the borders so much easier and I'm not going to run into any of those stitches that have started coming apart along the edges. I have really only given quilts to family and I always joke with them that it's their job to clip any threads I missed clipping. I do the best I can, but I always end up missing some. I've joked that every quilt I give should come with a pair of snipping scissors.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

That's so funny Janine.....Quilts that I've made years ago still have threads to be snipped on them haha🤣 Those threads are super easy to miss✅

@jhwilliams6550

Жыл бұрын

@@DH-qz2so thanks for the reminder. I knew I had heard this before and have started using it on my QAYG blocks, especially the strip pieced blocks since the edges are angled.

Great tips. I have three bobbin boats. I fill them up with full bobbins before I sew anything. I never run out. Even after I’ve used a few before I sew again I fill them up!!!!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

I am forever winding bobbins....I hate running out❣️

Hi Tracy. Those are some really good tips, especially about the curved snips and stitching strips in opposite directions. Thank you so much! ~~ Lynne

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely Lynne❣️(I learned the hard way with the curved snips🤷🏻‍♀️)

I asked my husband for a couple of his empty chewing tobacco cans. One can I use to store used blades and keep it closed and tucked out of sight. The second can I punctured a small hole in the lid (off center) and taped the can shut; I use this can to store used needles. Both cans, when full, can be safely tossed in the trash.

Can you show us how to make a book shelf quilt

Hey Tracy! Love your sewing tips, especially the one about how to dispose of rotary cutting blades. You can only use so many of them in thread cutters. I keep the plastic blade containers that they come in and have put my dull blades in them, but could never figure out how to safely throw them away. Also, like you I wind several bobbins whenever I have to do so, while I'm at my machine and have to do this anyway. Nice to be able to just grab a full one and keep sewing. The curved-blade scissors are a must!!! I clipped into a garment trying to clip thread tails. 😭😖😟Oh, the agony!!!! Life update: Packing up for a big move! Will send your package to you very soon. Life got in the way of sewing! More later. 🥰 Have a very happy Easter with your family. ✝

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Wow...you are moving...that's awesome (I hope)❣️ Happy Easter to you as well Dori✝️💐

Thank you for sharing this information and your experience. I'm a newer quilter, and I just finished a large strip quilt, stretch issues. I like all your ideas. 🎉

Thanks Tracy! You are wonderful and we share every success with you thanks to these great tips!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!❣️

Lots of great advice that I will definitely incorporate into my routines

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Awesome❣️

Great tips! I now have to buy a pair of curved scissors ✂️ Happy Sewing ♥️ 🧵🪡

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

LOL🤣 yes...you need the curve scissors❤️

Excellent tips and habits to incorporate in our quilting methodologies!! Thanks.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome Gloria!!! Happy Easter✝️💐

Love the idea of free motion labels. Going to do. I think more Special then attaching a label. Thank you.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!❤️

Love your tips and tricks Tracy! At the end of the day, it's always best for me to clean up my work area to start fresh next time - which isn't always the next day. I am fortunate to live near the beach in Hawaii but need to be vigilant about protecting my tools from the moist and salty air. If I'm not careful I swear I will rust and corrode also! Cleaning up each day is a must. All pins, needles, rotary cutters, and extra blades are stored in containers. Keeps everything out of my kids' reach and safe for my kitties to walk on tables a night. My sewing machine needs to be covered too. I love our craft . . . and the beach too!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You have really good habits❣️

Yes, I snipped a hole in my backing while clipping stray threads, luckily for me, it was in a lower corner area so I covered it with Amy label!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Happy to hear you were able to cover it...❤️

This is a great video full of good habits 😊. I throw y rotator blades away the very same way and use an empty pill bottle for dull and bent pins and needles.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Pill bottle is a great idea Di❣️

Thanks for all the tips good reminders for us 😊

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome June❣️

Love the tip to FMQ info on the quilt!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Michelle....super quick and easy✅

Thank you Tracy, for the great tips. I needed the sewing strips in the opposite direction tip for sure. I always wondered why after sewing stripes, even blocks ended up off on one side of the quilt. I always sew them the same direction, so now, thanks to you I know why. I don’t motion quilt yet because I always hand quilt, but I never thought to label them somehow on a corner. Many tips I need to get in a habit to do. Thank you!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

I used to sew wonky curved strips too...LOL🤣 Slowly I started to remember to swap sides so I totally get it...one habit at a time❣️

Thank's a lot for sharing your tips!!! As I just started last year with quilting, there's so much to learn for me! But I love doing it ever since! I made 4 bubble pillows after your qick methode! My gransons love the and I hope, my godchild will, too! I'm also experimenting: took a sonhat, which is just in the right form and took it as a pattern for a new one. It came out nicely: to different cloths and patterns and no inner seem to see, so you can turn it. So thank's again! You're teaching and helping me a lot in a lovely, professional way!!! ❤ Greatings from Moers, Germany 🎉

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Awesome Gabriele❣️ You sound very creative🤩 Keep up the great work!

I’ve found that large prescription bottles are the perfect size for discarding 45mm blades.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

That's a great idea❣️

I have an electric grace sharpener to resharp my blades so no throwing away for me. I also use an old pill bottle for my dull needles it would work for blades as well

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

How many times can you re sharpen your rotary blades? I will look into that for sure....thank you.❣️

@paulanevermore2612

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSewingChannel not sure I saved all of mine so I have like 50 blades already did once. Will take me a while to go threw all of them. According to grace company you can do multiple times. They do get them back to sharp for sure.

I use a sharps box for my cutting blades bc I owned a hair salon and know how easy it is to get cut disposing of a blade. You can make one with a coffee can or jar with lid.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Great idea using coffee can✅

Me again, here in WA, you have to write “SHARPS” on all blade covers before putting them in the trash or recycle

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting us know...that is an awesome tip for everyone✅

I keep old plastic rotary containers. Put the old ones in it. Mark on the plastic old. Then duck tape the container completely and throw away

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Great system for disposing ✅

Some really good habits

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

🤩

Great tips, I appreciated you sharing them. Have a great weekend❤

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thank you ...you have a great weekend too💐

I keep my old blades in a coffee can on top of the cabinet. I use the plastic cover from the new blade to put the old blade in and then wrap that up with tape before I put it in the can. I have 5 kids and 3 dogs so all of my tools are up high and put away when I'm done.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Good to hear you have such a great system❤️

Great tips as always sis!!!❤

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thank you sis❤️❣️🥰

On my Juki I am able to wind my bobbin while leaving the machine threaded. I always have a second spool with the same color thread. I don’t think all machines have that capability but my Juki QVP does. Great tips!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

I just learned that tip on having the extra spool for the Juki to wind the bobbin...thank you for the reminder❣️

@sallysmith6543

Жыл бұрын

I’m able to wind my bobbins while leaving the machine threaded on my Janome too.

Great tricks and ideas, thank you. I need curved scizzors! I have made a hole just like you said. Brilliant!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!❣️

I finger press after setting seam it works great

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Great technique too❤️

I iron from the back first also. Really really works. And especially as I like to press open. I love flat seams. And from the back means better behaved. The details are always in the work never seen. And yes, sewing tiny edge around quilt, another hidden detail is a trick I learned a while ago. Let's you breathe, or at least finish your work without tears. Ta heaps, hugs, Chel 🌸

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

So happy to hear that you use some of the same techniques as I do✅ 🥰

Really good tips! Thanks!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Phyllis❤️

Hi 👋 Tracy! You're so awesome to put these tips out there. Personally, I have most of the same habits and I'm glad to hear that I'm doing things already that You've pointed out. Thank You for consistently Sharing the Genius that You Are!😊❤😊 (Hugs)-Marie

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Awe Marie you are so sweet❣️ (They say great minds think alike....haha🤣)

@MarieH528

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSewingChannel lol 😆 Sew True, Sew True, 😆

Thank you for the great tips. I will remember them as I have made some stupid mistakes.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful....we've all made the stupid mistakes...we are right there with ya❣️

Excellent advice!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!❣️

Very good tips! Stay Stitching the quilt top is something I plan on doing! Labeling is also something that I have started to purpose myself to do. I thought maybe I was being a bit nutty about throwing away old rotary blades. I do the same thing you do.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Labeling seems to be the hard thing to implement for a lot of us. Glad to hear you dispose of the blades like me🤩

Since I do more garment sewing than quilting, one thing that was insisted upon when I was a student, was to always "press your seam as sewn" to heat and relax the fibers and threads before opening for final pressing position ( most specially for bias cuts) . Thanks for the bobbin thread trick.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome❣️

i have snipped intothe back also,😱

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

That mistake is such a bummer for sure😕

I place in medication bottle. Check with your pharmacy if you need any additional.

I use a couple old prescription bottles for my used sharps... one for needles, one for blades. Then drop the whole bottle off at a sharps box/ collection periodically.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

What an awesome idea ❣️

I have a prescription medication bottle that is large enough to hold rotary cutter blades. I wait until it's full before emptying the old ones out, wrapping them in fabric and batting waste, and taping the whole thing up with duct tape. I also have a smaller prescription medication bottle to hold my old, bent pins and needles. Used a hot nail to poke a hole in the lid so I can just slide the old pins and needs in without the need to open the bottle. When it's full I take it to a place that accepts sharps.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Great ideas for disposing✅

Thank you.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

🥰

I have a plastic gum container my used blades go into. To toss, I can tape it shut.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Great idea Lucinda to put them in a gum container✅

@ru4repeattoo

Жыл бұрын

Plus, enjoying the gum so you can use the empty container is a double win! 😄🤩

I put my blades in my sharps container. 😊

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome....they should sell those sharps containers for sewing🤷🏻‍♀️

@debwaves

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSewingChannel ask at the pharmacy?

Thanks for these tips! I always learn something new in your videos. What's the name of the blue and white patchwork block?

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Zelphia❣ The blue patchwork block is just a random block I put together a while ago (I was trying to piece a "snowflake" block I think but I never used it✅)

I love your vinyl scrap pockets on the wall, sorted by binding color. Did you make these? Can you please direct me to the link(s)? I am thoroughly enjoying your channel. Thank you!

@judyjudyjudy7513

Жыл бұрын

And I have just finished this video and see the link!! 🤦‍♀️ 👍 😊

I bought a sharps disposal container from my pharmacy. I put my old rotary blades, bent/dull pins and needles in it. When it gets full I take it into my pharmacist and he disposed of it properly. I then buy a new container. It takes a good long while to fill a container though.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Wow what an awesome disposal method❣️ Do they make that for the public too?

I use a sidewinder to wind and entire bobbin case full of wound bobbins. This lasts me a long time. I do not use the matching to wind. This tool is great.

@noreenreasor6093

Жыл бұрын

I hate when the words I used are changed. I do not use my sewing machine to wind bobbins.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

That's a great tool Noreen❣️

Regarding the blades, 2 things: I always put my sharps in an empty vitamin bottle and label it “sharps.” I can’t take credit for this one, but read it: Save your used rotary blades for trimming paper. Get a cutter in a different color or style so you don’t mix them up. (Like for “paper scissors.”) Then save it for cutting out paper patterns, etc. also, fleece and batting can dull your good blade faster. Old blades cut paper just fine.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Great ideas Susan❣️

Snipped back of t shirt quilt. Didn’t realize what I’d done until I washed it & found the hole. I now use duck bill b/c the very tip of mine are not pointed/ sharp.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

That is a heartache for sure.....I totally relate🤩

I have an empty container that my blades come in and put the used ones in it and when it's full I tape it up also before putting in the trash. I need to do the same with my needles. But I don't. I also like to iron my blocks on the back side a little to make sure everything is pointing in the correct direction before flipping it over and finishing it. I just started doing that making a churn dash quilt for my mom with 70 blocks! They started out not so good and got better and better! there are so many seam around the outside that I'm going to use the stay stitching tip around it before I start attaching the borders.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Stay stitching will definitely help when you have a ton of seams❤️

Love your channel! Binge watching all your quilting videos! I love your "stationary quilting foot" but I can't seem to find one anywhere. Did yours come with your machine? (Before the Juki) looking forward to more videos!

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Yes I think all the machines come with the free motion quilting foot.

I’m trying to find your tutorial for the quilt behind you, but am having trouble finding it. Please send me the link. Thank you. I thought I had watched all of your tutorials, but I don’t remember that one. I LOVE the scalloped edges and the colors!

@TheSewingChannel

3 ай бұрын

I don't have a tutorial on that one 😱

It was either Jennie of Missouri star or Donna Jordyn who said to flip the strips and Donna Jordan believe it or not she only finger presses her strips and then there’s that little roller if you didn’t want to keep getting up to your ironing board And then about your stay stitching I am guessing you would want to stay stitch around that block before you square it up? Because if you square it up you are handling it and don’t you run the risk of the seams coming apart

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Anything you can do to keep those stitches locked is a good thing✅

Once again, great tutorial, some great advice. I have one of those blade saver things, are they for sharpening as well? If so, how do you do it? Mine didn't come with instructions...😅 Blessings to you 🙏 ❤️

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

I think the blade saver is just for cutting threads🤷🏻‍♀️

Where do I go to get the snow globe paterns?

Hi Tracy, I’ve been doing stay stitching around my quilts for a long time, but I do one extra step after my quilt is quilted I clean up around the border. then I surge my whole border. I gives you 1/4” sewing area for yourbinding

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

What a great tip Barbara❣️

@barbaraprice7811

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSewingChannel Thank you Tracy….Hope you and yours had a happy Easter 🐣 🥰

To dispose of rotary blades I put them in the plastic cases my new blades come in. I write trash on it. when it’s full I seal it and then start a new case of full blades.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

Great idea Fallon!!!✅

Thank you for the tips! What is the pattern you used making the pretty floral patterned quilt behind you? I’m searching for patterns using 2 1/2” strips.

@TheSewingChannel

Жыл бұрын

I don't have a tutorial on that one yet...stay tuned....✅