This is a Christmas gift a friend made for me this year. It is called a chatelaine. It's already been so useful in keeping all my hand-quilting supplies together. She paper pieced the strap, and it has neat features...
The third square up from the bottom above the spool of thread has a magnet sewn under the top layer of fabric. I don't use this much, but it is a cool feature.
This is a built-in needle book that snaps closed. It is also on the thread side.
This is on the scissors side. It is a little pocket for my thimble. What a GREAT idea! Right below it is another pocket that I keep my hera marker in when I'm doing a quilt that I am using it on.
These are "hangers" for scissors and thread. They are thin straps with snaps at the end. I am using safety scissors because all I'm doing with them is cutting thread. I started with my pair of trusty Gingher embroidery scissors, but they are way too pointy and sharp. I didn't lose any blood, but I had to hold my breath that they wouldn't fall open and inflict a fatal wound to me or a quilt.
Just wanted to share this special gift with you.
~Joan
8 comments:
I always keep a magnet nearby . . . to run over myself when I lose a needle *s*
This is so clever, where have I been I have never seen this before. did you make it, from a pattern? Hey Happy New Year! and Happy Quilting
Sorry I went back to look at the post again, then I read it was a gift. I have got to make me one.
What a cool gift! Did the gifer make it or buy it? Really useful :)
What a lovely chatelaine! I have one made out of a ribbon with a cloth tape measure sewn down to the ribbon. I find it a very handy tool! I will have to change to safety scissors though, because I too have been jabbed a couple of times.
how very clever!!
Do you know where I can get this pattern. I had a pattern similar to this one but somewhere along the way I lost it. I've been looking for years for another one. I can't remember who made the pattern I had. Bought at the Houston Quilt Festival. Thinking it may have been Carol Doak. Anyway hoping you may have the pattern.
Debbie
Do you know where I can get this pattern. I had a pattern similar to this one but somewhere along the way I lost it. I've been looking for years for another one. I can't remember who made the pattern I had. Bought at the Houston Quilt Festival. Thinking it may have been Carol Doak. Anyway hoping you may have the pattern.
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