January Tool of the Month: Re-used Plastic Calendar

I cut up the covers and dividers from my old calendar to used as a temporary holder for lace purchased recently.

Cut off the holes, add a slit in the top to anchor the lace.  While I wouldn't use it for long term storage of vintage or fragile textiles, it's good for short-term organization.
The effect was prettier than I imagined, and I kind of like the sentiment.  Plan ahead.

December Tool of the Month

 This months tool of the month is this Donna Dewberry Self Healing Cutting matt from Fiskars.  It's a perfect shade of bluish-mauve.  My sewing room has been a haphazard slew of tools and colors, all which lead to my own visual distraction.  To cut my distractions down, I needed to pick one or two colors.  Most cutting mats are dark green with yellow lines.  They show most fabric ok, but they add a huge, dark green hole to a room.  I find this lavender-ish cutting mat uplifting and motivating.  I leave it up and work on it for everything.  It's fairly large, (18" x 24") with 30, 45, and 60 degree lines for cutting bias strips and other strips as needed.

 Brighten your room!

November Tool of the Month

This Grabbit Bobbin Saver by Blue Feather Products looks like one of those things that you'd never think would be all that.  But it holds 20-30 bobbins, of all makes and models, it's non-skid, but when it happens to fall in a busy work room, it hold bobbins securely so they don't fall out.  You can easily see what colors you have wound, and bobbins snap in and out easily.

 Bobbin Savers come in several colors (red, purple, blue) so you can further organize you bobbins by type, especially useful if you have an embroidery machine that uses multiple types of thread.
Plus, the Bobbin Saver fits nicely into Christmas stocking for the sewist in your life.