One thing leads to another and another....

Answer is much simpler: I didn't see the post! =D

But we're working on the loop turner thingy.

So it's obvious... I need more gadgets!

Nel

Loop turner? For turning a sewn tube right side out??? I have 2 different favorites for that. Number one is the FasTurn system. Love it, have every size of it (from mini to big blue tubes) and can use it in a couple of different ways too. You can also "stuff" as you turn the tube if you want. The tubes come with "pigtail" ended wire "pullers" that work really well. Or, if you have a closed end tube, use a smaller diameter tube to push the fabric through the larger tube.

Before the FasTurn, I used a simple wire type turner... with a "latch hook" on the end. It worked well for many years. (In fact I had more than one of them.......)

Pati, > Answer is much simpler: =A0I didn't see the post! =3DD

Sounds wonderful. I love poking around in sales and garages. A lot of my gadgets come from my Gran and her sister (my Sainted Auntie Queen).

I have a pretty little egg that came from Durham, I think. It's wooden and when opened it contains needles, thread and a thimble. It was just right for popping in a handbag.

I want one of those "Nanny Pins" that look like a brooch and open at one end to reveal needles and thread. I carry my thimbles on a chain around my neck, so there would be no excuse for not settling down to stitch anywhere.

Nel (Gadget Queen)

Nope. Queens are queens for *life*, Nel. ;) We wait with bated breath to hear what gadgets you discover -- and we'll wait as patiently as possible. :)

Oh good! And while it's always great to have a family heirloom recipe, I bet the one you composed is just as tasty. :-)

Best regards, Michelle > I gave Tim a bag containing 4 baps - he said "You found the recipe!"

Ooo, I love little boxes and bags for my sewing stuff. I recently decoupaged a small wooden box with photocopies of Victorian trade cards advertising threads and sewing machines. It's just the right size to hold enough embroidery floss, scissors, thimble, and needlecase for a small to medium cross-stitch project, and it's small enough to hold in one hand.

I also recently finished a small wooden box for my hand-quilting needles and thimbles, with a needlepoint design of a landscape showing throw a window on the top of the box.

I am the heir to a several pine-needle baskets that I use for quilting and everyday sewing notions, which stay on the counter beside my SM, with bigger basket to be the receptacle of odd scraps of fabric and larger notions.

My favorite sewing storage is an oak chest with a divider tray that sets in the top, which was built by my dad from a bed headboard with a carved bas-relief decoration. He built it as a tackle box, and I refinished it decades ago. My DMC embroidery floss is arranged in the top tray, with canvases, wool yarn, and oddball flosses stored under the tray.

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Funny you should talk of tackle boxes. Someone suggested using fly fishing boxes adn i just came across some.

Here:

Some of these look very exciting. We have a shop not far away, I am going to look in a day or two. Also at these:

The zinger (read "chatelaine") and the light magnifier look good, and then there are the 'ergonomic snips'. I wonder what they would be like with thread? Mmm... methinks their shearling mocassins might find a new home, too... I like mocassins.

And don't forget, I'm always ready to rehome those gadgets that stay in the back of your cupboards unloved and unused, especially if they are the kind that take twice as long to use, and even more to put away, than the job they were designed to save time doing in the first place! (Kitchen or sewing room)

Nel (Happily still the Gadget Queen)

Makes me feel better about using one of those boxes with the multiple small drawers usually used to store screws for my jewelry box. :-)

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada