This is probably the best tip I have learned in 45 years of quilting! THANK YOU for sharing!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@pamelavance648

4 ай бұрын

Thinking the same Definitely a winning idea 😮😊

My first thought today was, “well no tutorial from Carol today to watch with my first coffee” then surprise here you are. Love your system for keeping your rows in order, I’ve gone from my design wall to my sewing machine and sewn them into opposite position. Thanks Carol for another great learning tip. Fantastic 👍❤️😊

This beats stickers! I'll be getting the supplies ready! Thank you! Game changer for me!! Brilliant!

Brilliant! I had written with Sharpie on flower topped pins, but the tops melted when I pressed the blocks. I use the plastic tab closures that come on sliced bread to wind my floss/yarn bobbins and also to clip on and label my computer cords. Now I have another use for them: I pound a small nail through the top corner to create a hole for the safety pin, write the quilt row number on each tab, and then trim off the part that used to clip the bread closed OR even easier, I found I can close the opening of the clip with a dab of hot glue. Another low cost way to make my day! Thank you for the inspiration!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

It's funny, I tried the bread clips too! Quiltmakers are such a resourceful bunch! Thanks for watching.

@pamelavance648

4 ай бұрын

Reduce reuse repurpose recycle 😊😊😊 beautiful.. we need a less disposable society one step one day at a time. Everything old is new again options

Brilliant!! Cross-stitchers use this method to organize floss. Easy to make and easy to use. Genius idea on how to press them to have nesting seams.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! 😊

I’m only part way through your video this morning and all I can say is “WOW!!!!” 😂 I don’t have a space where I can lay out anything larger than a throw size quilt top on the floor so I, going shopping today! I’m lucky to have Hobby Lobby less than a couple miles from my front door (also a Michael’s around the corner) plus my very good friend “Amazon”. I don’t have a Cricut and was so glad to learn about those numerals - I took screen shots so I can remember🤔🤔😄😄. And I will definitely be sharing your fabulous, amazing idea for making sure blocks are ready to sew!!! The British have a wonderful words for how I feel - gobsmacked!!!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

That is such a great word! Have fun shopping! Thanks for watching.

What gorgeous colors! Looking forward to seeing more on Friday :)

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! 😊

Great idea! Thank you, Carol!

I love that little bit to pin in the corner of the first block after unpinning all of them. That's where I would always go wrong, sewing to the wrong side! Thanks again for sharing your wisdom!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome.Thanks for watching.

Great tips. Adding the things that I don't have to my shopping list. Thank you.

@CarolThelen

5 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

I too have been using the little scrap of paper with a straight pin in the upper left corner. I love your new method ! Thanks so much.

This is super idea!!!!!! Definitely one I will be using. Thank you, Carol!!!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

I was so happy to find this video today!

I had been using little bits of numbered paper and little craft clips to keep my rows organized. Then I found this idea from you about a year ago and LOVED it. I made it a bit easier on myself (and prettier) by purchasing (from Amazon) heart-shaped stainless steel key tags that have the numbers 1-20 laser cut in them. Just as you did, I attached the safety pins and put them on the ring binder. They work SO well. I did, however, find the safety pins too thick for more delicate fabrics. So, for those fabrics, I used thin glass-head straight pins, put a dot of super glue onto the bottom side of the pin's ball head, then slid a numbered bead onto each pin (could also use alphabet). As I glued them, I stuck them into a piece of styrofoam and let them hang upside down so the bead would set to the head of the pin. Both the tags and the beaded pins work beautifully. Thank you again for your tutorials. I appreciate you :)

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Those are such great tips!! I love the numbered heart shaped tags. I will look for those! Thanks for sharing those tips and thanks for watching.

Carol I recently started to use the keychain tags in the same way to mark the rows with a safety pin. I will incorporate the binder ring as well. Thank you.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Great idea to organize off the mat to the wall to the machine. I've used a similar system for many years. I have a scarf hanger, with some dips in the hangers that hold the clips, what's great about this little helper is that the regular hanger would droop with every clip at one end, where the dips hold the hanger steady. thanks again

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Great tip! Thanks for watching.

As always what wonderful tips. I’m going to store today to get supplies. I’m getting ready to do my sister a kaleidoscope quilt and this will definitely help. Thank you so much for being there for us 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Have fun! Thanks for watching.

Great idea! I was just sewing rows together yesterday and had to constantly keep looking at the photo on my phone to keep the block placement correct lol. I have been using painters tape on the first block of the row which doesn’t stay on well but this will be my new method! Thanks for showing the sewing and ironing of the rows too. Very helpful😃👏🏻 Looking forward to the pattern on Friday!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

TEMU has number stickers and jewelry supplies and binder rings cheap and sewing supplies

This was really timely for me and helped me get past a hump. I have been stuck at the pin a scrap of paper to the stack for about 3 years. Thinking that fact out loud is quite sobering. No more! Thanks again for a simple, effective approach. I even HAVE most of the materials needed but couldn't see the solution in all my choices...😂

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Perfect! Thanks for watching.

Thank you for these types. Seems like I always have to stop and move things. This will be helpful

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! Thanks for watching.

What an awesome idea!!

Great tips! This never would have occurred to me. Thank you!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

Great idea thank you. I’m new to patchwork and quilting. This will help me a lot.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.

What a fantastically brilliant idea. Thank you for sharing.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Super great idea! I don't normally put my blocks away for fear they'll get out of order, so yes, thank you for this great tip!!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Thank you. I appreciate this idea.

This is an excellent tip. Thanks for sharing it with us. Been stuck by many pins in blocks as markers. 😂

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Genius! I was using paper and pins...ouch! Thanks so much.

Brilliant!

Good ideas! Thanks.

Brilliant!❤

Great organizational information. Thank you for sharing.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Love this tutorial.

Carol, these are so helpful! I'm going to get the supplies this week! I've been using the scraps and pins myself😅

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Have fun! Thanks for watching.

What a great idea Carol. Very much appreciated,kind regards Heather from Melbourne Australia ❤😊🌹🦘🇦🇺

NICE and yes, I’ve worked to arrange quilt blocks to my liking, then botched the arrangement when sewing. 😮 this is a good remedy. Looking forward to scrap quilts. I need to either make scrap quilts or find a group where I can donate scraps. Too many.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

I know what you mean! I am trying to see if I can use all my scraps without buying any more fabric this year! We'll see what happens! Thanks for watching.

This is easier than sticky notes with binder clips. 😅

Awesome video💕🇨🇦

Fantastic idea!!!

@CarolThelen

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊 and thanks for watching.

Carol! This is genius! Thank you for sharing! Organization is not my forte, and something always seems to get switched around on me. I am definitely going to give this system a try!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

What a great idea. Thank you

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Excellant ideas to stay organized. I will definitely be using your suggestions. I'm currently working on the same blocks. Thanks for all your great tips.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure. thanks for watching.

Great tips! Tfs!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Happy New Year Carol. Thank you for all that you do. May God bless you and your family.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Happy new year! Thank you for the blessings and thanks so much for watching.

Great minds think alike! I do nearly the same thing. I use the keychain identifier and a black sharpie marker to mark it R1, R2 and the first piece of fabric is identified as 1. I always get confused when laying it out. Nicely done!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Carol - thank you for the instructions and for the note about Friday January 6th - I’ve always loved this pattern and with your help in keeping blocks and rows in order, I will be a very happy camper😄😄😄

Thank you so much. This will help save time when I walk away and then come back and have to figure out all over again what I was doing. I like the ironing board reminder also!! Very nice!! Thank you!!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Glad it helped! Thanks for watching.

Great idea, thank you

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Great tips, thank you

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Fantastic advise, thank you very much! For beginners like me, your Video is very precious. Here in Vienna patchwork and quilting is not (yet) very popular ☺️

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Welcome! You are a trailblazer there! Best wishes and thanks for watching.

Lindíssimo ❤❤❤❤

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you so much for sharing your awesome idea! Makes perfect sense - and those rows won't take up much space while they are pinned and waiting to be sewn together.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

What a simple but brilliant tip on how to organise the blocks and never sew the wrong ones together, something i can get wrong even when taking blocks from my layout to the machine. Love the idea of that simple pinned note to self on pressing. It's all so logical that I'm sure many will think " now why didn't I think of that? ". Thank you again. PS I'm glad to see books 1 -3 are already listed on Amazon UK . Hope to see no 4 soon as well and then I decide which ones to buy.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Well sometimes I still manage to ge a row mixed up now and then! LOL All 4 books are there now. Here is a link - www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=quilt+block+of+the+day+book&crid=1AVT5R3I0JZR3&sprefix=quilt+block+of+the+day%2Caps%2C246&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_22 Thanks for watching.

Great idea. Thank you for sharing. I used to do the pin a paper to the top block, but it was still confusing if it sat for very long.

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

I have really enjoyed this tutorial. This will help me so much. I have stacked rows with a blank page between. However, there times the paper slipped. Then I had to sort again. Thank you and I hope you do some more videos like this again. Happy New Year!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I’ve done something similar numbering rows, but it never occurred to make permanent tags!🤦🏽‍♀️ I also loved the idea for the reminder of which way to press block seams. Thank you for such practical advice!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for watching.

Fantastic idea, thank you for sharing. Could you please link to the fabric you use for putting blocks on the wall ? X

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

I am told that the shipments to the manufacturer have been delayed. They were expected in December, now January. After the distributers get them, then the retailers will get them. I would contact your local quilt shop, if you have one near you, see if they will be carrying them. I will not be selling them but as soon as I know more, I will give a shout out wherever I can. Thanks for watching.

What an awesome idea. I’m not a fan of the safety pin holding them together. I’m afraid it would leave an unwanted hole. I’m going to do this but use a binder clip to hold them and still use the tag with the numbers. Thanks again.

@sandybruce9092

6 ай бұрын

Ah, binder clips! Perfect!!! Thank you!!

@CarolThelen

6 ай бұрын

Great idea!

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