Hey Sewing report squad in this episode I'm showing you my ruler collection and I'm
going to tell you which rollers are used all the time and also which ones I might
have a little bit of buyer's remorse about so stay tuned
welcome to the Sewing Report I'm Jennifer Moore helping you discover your love of
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this channel and we are taking a look at the massive amounts of rollers that I
own some I use and some I really don't so let's get started the first rulers
that I actually picked up were these omni grid rollers they're like neon
hyleri yellow and well her fun color I use these when I was first getting
started quilting I didn't really know what I needed
so this is what everybody was using at the time it seemed so I got this I think
this is a 6 by 24 this is a 6 inch by 24 ruler it's got a little bit of some like
non-slip stuff in the back like a little bit it works okay and I actually picked
up these true grips and I put these little like silicone dots on the back of
all of my rulers this is a two and a half by 18 ruler and I use these for
like smaller cuts or if I was you know doing strips stuff like that so real
small pieces these were the first two that I owned while the Omni grips do
work I have since kind of migrated to another brand that I feel works a little
bit better and let me tell you more about these rollers I own a lot of them
these are the creative grids rulers and I discovered these in my local quilt
shop and they got these really cool like very much like non-skid little pads in
the back or I don't know they're like frosted but they work a great on
quilting cotton and also dharmic fabric these do not hurt the fabric sad story I
was working one day and had this on the floor
bad idea and my chair leg cracked it so what did I do
I immediately went out and got another one so this is my new eight and a half
by 24 ruler I use this all the time I would say this is my main ruler and I'm
a complete creative grids convert now so let me tell you about some of the other
rulers I've got actually they're mostly brids and i keep them in this little
container that I got from Target sellers but this was kind of a square up ruler
it's eight and a half inches and I'm not really sure why but I also have creative
grades other eight and half inch ruler because you definitely need a lot of
eight and a half inch rulers right I also picked up this eight and a half
inch I believe this is yes I really like eight and a half inch rulers I did use
this to cut out a quilt although that was like three years ago and the quilt
still isn't pieced together but I really like the ruler and I've used it to make
a lot of triangles here's my little six and a half inch square ruler and I use
this when I may have like a six and a half inch quilt block one thing I can
tell you is if you're going to be making a quilt with a lot of blocks it's worth
it to get the corresponding size ruler so you can square up all your blocks to
their uniform size these rulers are maybe like 20 bucks but in my opinion
it's totally worth it just to have totally uniform sized quilt blocks so
that's really the reason why I probably own so many of these square rulers is
because at one point I was working on a quilt with six and half inch blocks or
eight and a half inch blocks and so on this ruler is the binding tool when I
first started quilting I saw this product this is a binding tool and it
kind of helps you cut your binding strips so that they're perfect when they
butt up to each other and I saw Jenny Doan on the Missouri star quilt company
using it it's a cool ruler but I have found a method that works better that
doesn't involve this ruler so I don't really use it anymore a couple years ago
I took a class of marathons and this ruler came with the class this is fawns
and Porter's half and quarter ruler I did use in the class I haven't used it
since then it is kind of a neat ruler though this bad boy is creative grids
twelve and a half inch ruler and you might think like when would I really
need this but I have made quite a few quilt blocks that were twelve and a half
inches unfinished so it has come in handy plus I actually will combine
this with my eight and a half by 24 inch roller so quite often I'll use those
rollers together just to trim my clip after they've been finished so this one
actually does come in handy and I love this one while I haven't done a lot of
free motion quilting lately I did take a couple handi quilter classes on the
sweet 16 sit down and I purchased these rollers from those classes they're
pretty cool and I do have the hopper foot for my Janome 7700 and I've got an
extension table actually should do some free motion quilting one of these days
maybe it'll be future video let me know if you would enjoy watching me tried to
free motion quilt using rulers but I've got this handy tool and this one makes a
lot of shapes this does like a clamshell shape or like a half circle it does like
points and you can do a lot of things with it it's got a straight edge and
then it's got this curved edge so we actually use this in the class and I
purchased it and then I also got something called handy grip and it's
sort of the same type of material that's on the back of the creative grids
rollers but it's sort of like these little strips and you can put these on
any roller I will say these are definitely they definitely are more
effective than these true grips circle but I would not recommend these strips
for like fine fabrics like if you're trying to use the ruler to cut silk or
something that might snag I would actually not recommend these
because this is a little bit like sandpaper but for your quilting Cotton's
or for your sturdier fabrics this would be totally fine I have not personally
experienced any problems with it damaging my fabric and I have used it so
these work really well and I'll try to link to everything below if I could find
it in the description box so if you're interested in any of these rulers look
below and I'm going to try to create a kit from kit ROM to link to all of these
products now that I'm getting more into dress making and garment construction I
picked up a couple curved rulers this one's from Amazon's as the Fairgate
curve works pretty well and then I also got this one this is from a class I took
with Atika Beamer she is a craft doctor as well and it's cool because
that like that is see-through so that you can see what you're doing underneath
this one you cannot see through and this also has lines for seam allowance I
believe this is a 3/8 seam allowance and this is the 5/8 seam allowance so pretty
handy tool and I can see using this a lot once I get more into like grain
patterns and doing a lot of things with that so I'm very happy to pick these up
the ruler I don't have that I'm looking for are more dressmaking rulers I'd love
to get one of those flexible rubber rulers I think that would be cool and
I'd also like to get a smaller flexible ruler that looks more like this so I'm
looking to pick that up as well you know like the kind that you see in all those
like beginner fashion student kits something along those lines so that's my
ruler collection let me know what you think did you enjoy this video give me a
thumbs up or a thumbs down let me know why and do you think I have too many
rulers and also what's your favorite ruler I'd like to know I will see you
next time for another edition of the sewing report
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