Click-it bag

Sandy,

What a prettybag! I never even heard of a Martelli rotary cutter and had to google it...now I'm wanting to get one! Sounds like just the thing for folks with arm pain. I'm so glad you posted about your bag and the cutter :)

-Irene

I have a 1/4" x 10' steel tape in my purse. Comes in handy quite often while shopping. Brand name is Lufkin. They aren't very expensive. You could make quite a few bags from an 8-10' tape. I suspect that the thing that makes some more expensive than others is the wind-up mechanism and you don't need that if you're just using the tape to make bags. If these bags catch on, it probably won't be long until we see pieces of steel tape in the quilt shops for considerably more money than in the hardware/home improvement stores. :)

Julia > DH will accept whatever I make for him and be glad to get it ;-)

I have a narrow one, one metre long on my keyring. Very useful when shopping for clothing and things

It is similar to these on this site

Shirley

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Howdy!

That's what I was thinking, Julia; how long 'til the quilt/craft shops stock tape rulers? Btw, *I* own the snap rulers; *he* asks me where they are. There's always the little 1/4" x 5' tape in my purse, you just never know when you'll need to measure. ;->

So cool that quilters/crafters come up w/ all these "alternate" uses for our "everyday" items.

R/Sandy

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Country Sampler in Papillion NE sells them, already cut into the appropriate total length to make the three bags described in the pattern SNAP HAPPY! Full service, for sure! joan p.s. and the customers are told that if they are going to make more than one set, they should buy their own tape measure. It's cheaper.

I always use a steel tape measure in my quilting, I keep a 12' Lufkin in my "quilt tool box". I use it for squaring up, opposite diagonals should be equal, a 6' dressmakers cloth tape is to stretchy and not long enough to use on a bed size quilt.

My guild mates are no longer surprised when I pull out my "Lufkin", it is more than 30 years old and started life as a tool in my inspectors kit. I used to work as an inspector in a steel industrial cabinet manufacturing plant.

I will not cut my trusty "Lufkin" into pieces, but I will buy some replacement tapes (steel of course) to use in some snap bags!

Bonnie, in Middletown, VA

My dad gave me the little small steel blade tape measure mom used and kept as her own. I think it is 12'. It is kind of a fun thing to have and use. I think he got it for her to keep his safe and where he could find them. Kind of like quilters and scissors.

Home Depot had a deal last month on Stanley tapes. I think 25' and 16' in one pkg. for $8.88. Not a bad deal. Taria

Howdy!

I'm thinking "dollar store!" for tape measures to cut up...

Meanwhile, the Stanley 25-footer is safe in its drawer (I'm the only one who remembers it's there), the gimme' tape (w/ a Mercedes-Benz logo on it) is in my purse (no one dares go there), and I will continue to confiscate all others that lounge within my reach. ;->

Steel industrial cabinet inspector- Cool! I was comparing work notes w/ son's girlfriend the other day; she's a carpenter, photographer & pedicabber; I was a roofer w/ my dad. She & I both love to paint (walls). Great gal!

Tape measures rule!

R/Sandy ;-P