I’ve been sewing and quilting for most of my life. Quilting really took hold of my craftiness in college and never really let go. As you can imagine, I have a few favorite products that make a big difference in my sewing and quilting. Today, I’d like to share my favorite sewing and quilting products with you. Over the years, I have found many of these products at my local quilt shops, but Amazon tends to be my go=to place to shop because it does not require me getting in my car and driving to a shop only to find out that they don’t carry what I was hoping to buy.
So, today, I’m sharing links to my favorite sewing and quilting products that you can also find on Amazon. If you purchase an item using the link I provide, I will get a very small percentage of the sale. This, in turn, will help fund future quilting and sewing adventures! If you are interested in these products, and don’t mind helping me out at the same time, please click on these links as you shop!
I’ve recently discovered the SewTites cutting mats. I bought the whole system at a sewing expo, but purchased the small rotating SewTites cutting mat from Amazon. The best thing about all of the SewTites mats is that the mats are magnetic and rulers are held in place as you cut. Cutting fabric is really hard on my hands (arthritis) and SewTites products are amazing!
This is the small-ish square ruler that works well on the SewTites rotating board.
These are the magnetic boosters that you use to hold the ruler down. I will be sharing the whole SewTites Cutting System in a later post, if you are interested in the whole system.
The 5 slot quilting ruler stand was a Christmas gift and I love it in my new hobby room! My rulers were always getting buried under fabric, but now I can always find them. These ruler stands are very inexpensive and make a great gift for a quilter!
Another Christmas gift, from my daughter, was this Tailor’s Clapper. After you press seams, just place the clapper on top of the hot seam. This really helps flatten blocks out and I love the little sewing machine design on it.
I keep a wool pressing mat right next to my sewing machine. It makes it easy to press pieces and quickly turn back and keep sewing.
The Mini Oliso Project Iron is the iron I use on my wool pressing mat. It’s perfect to use as you are piecing and does not have the auto-off feature. In case you are wondering, most quilters don’t like the auto-off feature on their iron. I usually quilt for several hours at a time and it’s annoying when my iron keeps turning itself off.
When I was converting my son’s old bedroom into a hobby room, I knew I wanted a design wall. I decided on these quilting design wall panels. They come in packs of 12 and stick to the wall. This is perfect for laying out a quilt design. I used to lay pieces out on the floor but, with 2 large dogs, you can imagine how that went.
I hang these thread holders on the walls of my sewing spaces to store spools of thread.
Diagonal Seam Tape was made by Allison, at Cluck Cluck Sew. You put a piece of this tape from your presser foot, down to the closest point to you on your sewing machine. This helps when you are piecing things like half-square-triangles, so that you get accurate seam allowances.
Obviously, these are not ALL of the items I have in my sewing room. These are just a few of my sewing and quilting FAVORITE products. These are some of those little extras that I have picked up here and there and now couldn’t live without. I hope you’ll check out a few of these sewing and quilting favorites and please be sure to use the links I provided!
Happy sewing!
