Have you ever seen one of these?
It's not really a sewing tool. It's for cleaning out a musical instrument, namely a flute. Like so:
Naturally, I had this thing already hanging around, because I use it to clean my flute. Indispensable.
As a sewing tool, though, it's a luxury I no longer can live without. I abhor using a safety pin to thread something through a casing. Ugh! Takes forever. This takes a few seconds.
Also handy for threading a camera strap through a cover. :)
Your local music store will stock a metal cleaning rod for a few bucks, or a wooden one like mine for a few more. Metal rods are skinnier. Find one online here.
Trust me on this one. You'll wonder how you lived without it, especially if you make a lot of elastic waistbands or aprons with really long casings!!
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Nice tip! I have a plastic bodkin (I think that's what it is called) I got a Michaels, similar size and shape. My questions is, do you ever find it hard to thread this through waistbands (or other things where you have to go around a curve)? My bodkin bends but it is still pretty long and is sometimes tough to get all the way through.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip AND I love the Anna Maria Horner fabric!
ReplyDelete@luckpennymake -I haven't had a problem with that, but I bet you could get around it by making a similar tool from pipe cleaners or the like, even though they would be a little trickier to thread through because they are flexible. So far I have had an easy time with this through waistbands because I can "lose" the whole thing inside the casing if necessary, and it still stays threaded.
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