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Brenda's Favorite Tools for Foundation Piecing
1. Spray starch
Saturate your fabric and iron it until it is as stiff as paper.
It makes the fabric easy to place below the foundation and
the small pieces won't fold back when you sew. Once you're
sewing though, no steam and no starch. It will make the paper
wrinkle.
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2. Schmetz Microtex Sharp Needles, size 70/10
Larger needles don't help your paper tear away; a short stitch length
does that. I like to use a small, sharp needle to keep my seams
accurate.
3. Single-needle throat plate (not shown)
Tiny pieces can be pulled into a zigzag throat plate. This one has
a tiny hole, just large enough for the needle. Saves tearing fabric
out of the bobbin case and saves you from tearing out your hair!
4. Open Toe Foot (see photo B) So you can
see where you're sewing!
5. Portable Sewing Table It makes a perfect
staging area and keeps the pieces flat as you feed them under the
presser foot. I like to use it as a base for clipping threads between
my pieces too.
6. Fiskars SofTouch® Micro-Tip® Scissors
They're the perfect size for clipping threads and trimming short
seam allowances. Because they're spring loaded, you just squeeze
to cut, and they pop back by themselves, saving your hand muscles
half the work. (Great if you have arthritis.)
7. Brooklyn Revolver This rotary cutting
mat is attached to a revolving base, making it easy to trim those
final seam allowances without having to lift the block.
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