Hate pins, just hate having to do all that pinning and then having to stop every few inches to remove them when machine quilting so finally decided to try one of these and am really glad I did. Believe this product to be a little more expensive then some of the others but remember "you get what you pay for". I do use a few pins to anchor all the layers together because I do find it a little difficult to use this tool without having to lift the quilt to get at the bottom but a few safety pins in stragtic places does the trick of holding everything together while you baste the whole quilt with the gun. A few people mentioned the tacks being too long on some products, not with this one, I have not had any issues with shifting of layers using this machine. Would highly recommend trying this out. Oh for those that don't want to add anymore plastic to the environment, the tacks are very small so after cutting them off I just add them to a glass mason jar which should take years to fill.
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Showing posts with label brother sewing machine models. Show all posts
New ThreadNanny 10 LARGE BLACK & WHITE Spools of HEAVY DUTY
List Price: $54.95
Sale Price: $23.45
Today's Bonus: 57% Off
Thread not as heavy duty as I had hoped. Looks like all-purpose thread, not heavy duty ... So it appears I paid too much. The spools are smaller than one would think ... haven't sewn with these yet, so I cannot comment on performance or durability....
Rain Forest Paint Book
List Price: $9.99
Sale Price: $8.99
Today's Bonus: 10% Off
I was a bit surprised that the "book" is only a couple pages and a painting kit. Not cool. I think it should be advertised as a kit. The few pages that are there are fine, really good actually, but it definitely seemed like too little.
Quartet Heavy-Duty Instant Easel (27E)
List Price: $40.99
Sale Price: $25.88
Today's Bonus: 37% Off
I bought this item to use for flannel board presentations for AWANA council time. It works well for me. It breaks down easily and the pieces fold away neatly to a size that is easily carried and stored. I am very pleased with this easel and can wholeheartedly recommend it. Please note however, that 10 pounds is all that the plastic arms can hold. I doubt I would've name it "heavy-duty" because of this. Shipping was very quick. The item was delivered within four days of the order placement! I would definitely buy this easel from this company again.
Avery Marks-A-Lot Desk Style Green Dry Erase Marker with Chisel
List Price: $21.49
Sale Price: $10.08
Today's Bonus: 53% Off
I expected a lower quality material and planned to deal with the additional work necessary to clean up another "Dry Erase" Marker. I have been exceptionally well pleased with ease or use, color, consistancy. Time will tell about life of product but the price was really great in any case.
Epson 24in X 82ft Epson Presentation Matte Paper
List Price: $67.49
Sale Price: $34.34
Today's Bonus: 49% Off
This paper is fabulous for matte photography. It's decently thick, and takes color beautifully. We use this for printing posters and customers are very happy with the end result.
TX-Direct Spray-On
I have a 30 year-old one piece ski suit that lost all of its water repellency (I got sopping wet skiing in a warm snowstorm at Park City). This bottle (I used it all for the full suit) seemed to have restored some level of protection.
I sprayed it outside as other reviewers talked about the smell. It does smell, but it did not seem strong to me. I used a rag to spread the liquid around and to get into all the crevices at the seams, etc. I let it dry outside and then used a water spray bottle to "test". The water beaded up. I suspect that it is not waterproof, but this suit never was since it was before Gore-Tex and other new fabrics, but it should be fine in wet snow storms, although maybe not rain.
I sprayed it outside as other reviewers talked about the smell. It does smell, but it did not seem strong to me. I used a rag to spread the liquid around and to get into all the crevices at the seams, etc. I let it dry outside and then used a water spray bottle to "test". The water beaded up. I suspect that it is not waterproof, but this suit never was since it was before Gore-Tex and other new fabrics, but it should be fine in wet snow storms, although maybe not rain.
Dress It Up 6561 Monkeys Funglasses
My niece was asking for "orange sunglasses with monkies on them" for her birthday and she just wouldn't let it go. Wouldn't you know the sweet little thing didn't realize how impossible it was to find what she wanted. These are red, not orange, but they suited her just fine! She wears them everywhere!
Magcraft NSN0604 1-Inch by 1/8-Inch Rare Earth Disc Magnets
Me and my dad both love magnets. I ordered these for him for Christmas and when I received them in the mail, I had to check them out. They are super strong and the look/feel of them is great. Like the other reviewers stated, try not to let them stick together, because you will suddenly be confronted with the task of getting them apart. You couldn't ask for any stronger of a magnet thats this size, but you do have to be careful. Like it says on the packaging, they are very brittle. I got two of them too close together, and they flew at each other and when they connected they shattered into very many tiny pieces, but thankfully the strength of the magnets kept the pieces in one big clump, instead of scattering them everywhere. I guess your not supposed to play with them like I was, but how can you resist? These a great magnets with excellent strength, but you just gotta be careful with them.
Darice 120-Piece Deluxe Art Set
List Price: $15.99
Sale Price: $8.94
Today's Bonus: 44% Off
I bought this art set as a gift and I was thrilled at the variety of mediums along with the affordable price. I should have known you get what you pay for. When I received this I was bummed because it looks so cheap. The items inside look like things you can get at the 99 cent store and the box they are in is flimsy and plastic. It is still a good variety but make sure you are not buying for someone remotely serious about art.
Paasche Trigger For VL Series Airbrushes
These new triggers were designed to alleviate the swing breaking that occurs with the little pice of tin between the thread hole and the pressure point. This is great, but passche didn't tell anyone they were doing this! So when I got the trigger it also came with an extra piece and seemed to be for the wrong gun entirely. To get the new rocker to work you have to remove the hose connector portion of the gun and replace it with the provided trigger port. It looks like a ball resting on a divet. The new design works really well and I love the upgrade, but I was two minutes away from sending the whole order back.
Antiqued Silver Plated Hammered Dome Circle Earring Part
List Price: $2.99
Sale Price: $1.79
Today's Bonus: 40% Off
disc measures 3/4 of an inch in diameter. the surface has a hand hammered appearance which is suggestive of Etruscan jewelery. the color of the metal appears to be oxidised which gives this finding character and is different than most of the strand reducers for tiered necklaces. a must buy!!
Dap Plaster of Paris Box Molding Material, 4.4-Pound, White
List Price: $5.99
Sale Price: $4.73
Today's Bonus: 21% Off
Image my surprise when I went to the local mega hobby stores (2 of them) only to find that good old fashioned Plaster of Paris had been replaced with some Chinese made "kind of like" plaster of Paris stuff. This in good old made in USA Plaster of Paris, in a half gallon size mike carton. Weight is 4.4 pounds.
Happy as can be... 5 stars (made in USA pushed it over from 4!)
Sew Perfect Hemmer 1/8" Presser Foot for All Low Shank Snap-On
List Price: $15.95
Sale Price: $8.83
Today's Bonus: 45% Off
This makes a great difference for designers cuts the work time to getting a professional hem. To get started you need to make a very small fold and place it through the slot and walaah!!! It does all the work for you and the hem comes out very small and crisp. What would be helpful if the company provided instructions and then I am sure they would get all positive feed backs. I did my best to explain I hope this has been helpful.
X-ACTO Heavy Duty Wood trimmer 12" boxed (26312)
List Price: $72.49
Sale Price: $51.86
Today's Bonus: 28% Off
I have had this product for a few years. It seemed at a reasonable price although the handle and the back straightedge piece is a bit bulky with weird designo-curves. The legs are strange and also have useless bulky designer-curves. The box showed a straightedge with both inches and centimeters, a big plus.
However this cutter never cuts straight, as the plastic straightedge is at a very small off angle. So I use it only by eyeing the cutting line at the cutting edge itself. If there is something unimportant, I may use the straightedge but this never gives a true 90 degree angle.
The problem, I think, is in that when you lift the guilotine knife, it bends and torques the back mechanism. So the unit isn't built solid.
Useful for low end projects. Main straightedge in the back isn't straight, resulting in off-angled cuts. I sometimes had ok results with the T-straightedge, but it is a bit flimsy.
Numbers cast into the main straightedge are also very hard to read. I wiped a little bit of gesso on my unit so I could read the numbers.
Kenmore 19106 Sewing Machine
I am extremely pleased with this machine. I have sewn some fairly difficult and unusual items since I received the machine to the mundane and enjoyed every minute of it. The machine is incredibly easy to thread. I have used a straight stitch and a zig zag stitch and discovered I can do more than I would ever have even attempted 20 years ago. Apparently with age I have gained patience and the machine and I get along extraordinarily well. I would recommend this machine as a wedding, high school graduation or college gift. It is serving me very well.
Fellowes Electron 180 Trimmer (5410502)
List Price: $59.49
Sale Price: $51.15
Today's Bonus: 14% Off
I bought this cutter to cut 13x19 single sheet prints. The cutter has a sleek design and a good weight to it. There are multiple blades for cutting, scoring, perforating and squiggling.
I put down 2 crop marks (8.5x11 matte paper) to make sure the cutter could cut straight, and the cut was about 1mm off on one end as well as a bit wavy in the middle. I did about another 100 test cuts on different paper and it seems to have the same consistency with the curvy lines appearing where ever your hand is not perfectly steady...cut speed does not fix the quality. The LED light is pretty much an ornament since it's hidden by your hand when you cut.
WHY IT WILL NEVER CUT STRAIGHT if you care to read on.
The cutter it self is well made, except for the most important part. The blade pushes out of the box and comes in contact with a very cheaply made plastic piece/strip. The plastic piece is uneven and bulges above the cutting surface. The dotted guide line is printed on this strip, but it is done with thick paint and painted on crooked. Because you are cutting on an uneven surface, your cuts will never be straight. If this piece could ever be sanded down and fixed, there is also the problem of the uneven cuts based on hand pressure. This device needs a lot of work.