A Quilty Solid - app

A Quilty Solid is a mobile app designed for quilters, by a quilter, Steph Skardal, 2018 winner of Best of Show at QuiltCon. As a software engineer, Steph has developed a number of tools for visualising and matching colours that are brought together in the app. It allows you to match solid colours of quilters’ fabrics and threads, develop and store colour palettes, extract solid colours and palettes from an image, match fabric and thread colours to Pantone colours, and compare solid colours between commercial fabric ranges for your preferred match. More manufacturers products are being added with each release, but there is already a good range. A very handy tool for quilters that will become more useful as you become familiar with its features, and generously made freely available via the App Store and for Android.

 

This week at Fairholme (2) ... fabric storage hacks

It just happened that three people came up with storage ideas for show and tell this week ...

Georgie picked up this fabric container with a tray perfect
for hexagons (these are 1") at Woolworths, in the craft aisle ...
The beautiful little Liberty cuts were not from Woolies,
but from Cottage Quiltworks.

Sue S discovered that Daiso's soft-sided CD containers are just
the right size for fat quarters, so she bought a few.
Daiso is a Japanese variety store where everything is
$2.80. If you need to locate your local Daiso, ask a pre-teen
- they'll know, and be happy to accompany you there.

A savvy young quilting friend alerted Jill to this $20 metal
mesh trolley from K-Mart which bears some resemblance
to a popular Ikea product that costs a bit more than $20.
It is sturdy and goes together easily, without tools.
The trays are about 15" long.

Investigation of popular pen used as quilt-marking tool

A useful post about the way the inks in Frixion pens work, with input from the manufacturer:

Frixion pens - all you need to knowJenny K Lyon, Quilt Skipper, 13th August 2015

Do you love your scissors?

Meet Eric Scissorhands - the last of the craftsman scissor makers in this video from the BBC News Magazine. It's nice to see that he has two apprentices, and the pride they take in their craft.

Find!

This is not the most profound blog post you will ever read, but if you have searched for a thread storage solution you will understand why it is here. 

This organiser was found at K Mart in Hornsby (in northern Sydney) a couple of weeks ago.  There were several sizes, this is the largest. The depth is just right to stand a standard thread spool, and the compartments are just the right size to lay them flat. The compartments are various sizes, some accommodating several spools. The lids closes securely, but is easy to open, so it will keep the dust at bay.

And it was just $5! Perhaps another one would be a good idea ...