Useful Tools

 There a few tools that are helping me a whole lot as I sew at least one block a day for #100Days100Blocks so I thought I'd write about them. First is this neon thing with the nice wood handle, it's a Quilter's Slidelock. This is the first project I've used it on, and it is helping me cut nice and straight every single time. Which is great, because I don't want to wast any of this luscious Tula Pink fabric, right? I'll do a post about it later and show you how it works.

 The official 1/4" foot that came with my Janome machine. I started off with my "Little Foot" but the first two blocks were super inaccurate and it was very annoying. I think it might actually be worn out as I've had it for a very long time and it's only made out of plastic. Friend Jaye's recent issue with her worn-out foot gave me the idea to just try the other one to see if it made a difference. It was like magic, everything went together on the next block with no problem.

I bought the 100 Modern Quilt Blocks book at the Nook store, so I'm using my iPad to have the full-color illustrations. The black and white ones on my Nook just don't do it for me!
This is the first time that I've bought a digital copy of a quilt book and I quite like how it looks on the screen. Plus it lays nice and flat or I can prop it up like this.

Showing up underneath the block is the journal I'm keeping as I go through this project with fabric swatches and notes. The journal is a grey paged Strathmore and I love working on the nice soft gray colored pages. It's very different than the normal white background to draw and write on, easier on the eye maybe?