Home made basting glue

thanks for sharing, Jenn! cute service, maybe I can upload a video of mine. marina in Rome

Jenn/Jalynne ha scritto:

Great tip for beginning appliquers like me, thanks!

Karen, Queen of Squishies

Hi there Anyone able to tell me what the instructions actually were - with my connection, all I managed was three words every 30 seconds or so ... so I abandoned it after about 5 minutes by which time I had discovered, I think, that the person on screen lived in Idaho - but I could be wrong about that

My connection was fine, but I couldn't tell either. Maybe I've had too much coffee and I'm feeling impatient. They laughed a lot and I got tired of waiting for the information. All I heard was use Elmer's School Glue because it washes out. Maybe I'll try tomorrow morning when my brain is going slower.

Kay Ahr in NV

Tutu Haynes-Smart wrote:

Hi there Anyone able to tell me what the instructions actually were - with my connection, all I managed was three words every 30 seconds or so ... so I abandoned it after about 5 minutes by which time I had discovered, I think, that the person on screen lived in Idaho - but I could be wrong about that

That's a good link! Yup -- it's Sharon Schamber, and that's exactly how she showed us to modify our glue bottles in class at camp last week. Pretty cool, especially considering that it's so *cheap*! :)

Hi Tutu! She lives in Arizona. ;) As for the instructions, you need a bottle of Elmer's Washable School Glue, a mechanical pencil (she recommends Bic, but any should do fine) with a screw-off tip, scissors and a knitting needle cap.

1. unscrew the tip of the mechanical pencil, making sure that there's no lead left inside the tip.
2. unscrew the orange glue cap (so you'd be able to get glue out, if you wanted to, which you don't right now).
3. scrunch the pencil tip around on the orange glue cap to make a mark all the way around.
4. pop the orange cap off of the glue bottle and cut off the tip of the orange part just to the line made by the pencil tip.
5. cut off the white tip of the glue bottle (the part that was inside the orange tip) just to below the little bulge.
6. stick the pencil tip inside the orange glue tip, pushing it up as far as possible to make a seal (if it tends to leak, use some superglue to seal it).
7. replace the orange glue tip on the glue bottle and cap it with the knitting needle cap.

Done! It makes a very fine line of glue for basting. The only other thing you need to know is that the glue won't hold unless you heat set it with a very hot iron. The glue washes right out, and you can even pull apart glued layers if you need to before they're sewn.

She said she lived in Utah, use Elmer's School Glue and BIC mechanical pencils. One trick for a slow connection is to just leave it on with all the chop and spurts and starts and then go do something else........comeback later when it is completely done and hit the rerun button on the left, then it usually runs pretty smooth.

Val

I used Elmer's School Glue for temporarily holding machine applique 25 or so years ago :). I would never have thought of modifying the bottle like she did to get a fine line of glue, though.

Julia > >

Howdy!

The film shows a woman taking the orange cap off a bottle of Elmers SCHOOL GLUE, attaching a smaller, slender tip from a Bic mechanical pencil, so the applicator is more syringe-like. It's not about the glue, it's about changing the tip on the bottle cap. Not to argue w/ those who actually find this helpful, but I didn't. The woman should have written a script or notes or something so she could tell what she's doing in a straightforward way. A list of necessary "ingredients" would help, too; near the end of her demo she hints that sealing the cap w/ some super-glue might be necessary-- well, now you mention it! The jumpy camera didn't help the process, either. Rather disturbing (even to this mother of grown sons) are many of the other videos offered there, about fighting, fisticuffs, other stupid behavior. How'd this quilt stuff get on that list? ;-P YMMV

That was Sharon Schamber who lives in northern AZ. She was born in Utah. She used the point part of a Bic mechanical pencil to make a fine line applicator for a bottle of Elmer's School Glue (her preferred brand) Remove the point part from the pencil. Use it to score a line on the orange cap of the glue. Pop the orange cap off the glue bottle after "unscrewing" it all the way out. Cut the top part of the glue bottle off below the first ridge after it stops tapering down. Cut the top off the orange top part of the bottle along the scored line you made. Insert the pencil point in the orange cap so the point is out through the enlarged opening you just cut. Push it firmly into place. Replace the orange cap on the bottle. Use a knitting needle point protector (she recommends the one by Clover) as a sealing cap on the bottle.

Makes a very fine line of glue.

Hope that helps someone......

Pati, > She said she lived in Utah, use Elmer's School Glue and BIC mechanical

Thanks Sandy!

YouTube seems to be the hottest thing on the web since MySpace. Anyone who wants their 15 minutes of fame can publish a video to YouTube. Some folks should have found something else to do with their 15 minutes to be sure. However, you will also find some actual commercial material on it as well. Seems that some companies are using it as a marketing tool. They may be able to get some video on YouTube that would not be allowed on regular TV, plus, they are taking advantage of the wide viewer market.

Someone recently requested a "time waster game" - it's not a game, but try YouTube - definitely a time waster! Just be careful with the kids watching - it's not all PG rated stuff!