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    Sandy Navas's Avatar Sandy Navas is offline Senior Member
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    Default Not quite ultimate gift for a quilter?

    Okay, there's a $25 limit on Christmas exchange gifts at my quilt guild. And, time is running out quickly. I've been wracking my brain (too difficult at times) and can't come up with something truly special . . . I don't think my quilting abilities meet with what some of these members turn out, so I don't want to try to make something that will be a disappointment to anyone. Last year I got a quilted apron and while cute was very heavy and just not something I'd ever use myself . . .

    So, if you had $25 what would you prefer? I'm leaning towards notions but everything I think of seems like it would be something others probably already have or meager and insignificant . . .

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    Default Re: Not quite ultimate gift for a quilter?

    How about a nice quilt magazine and some precuts?
    Or a triangle ruler, those are special...

    I don't know.
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    Default Re: Not quite ultimate gift for a quilter?

    how about an old fashioned basket, like this

    http://kosmopolitan.co.uk/wp-content...hopper3017.jpg

    Make a lovely lining for it with pockets and put a few notions in the pockets and make some of Kensington's spiced nuts to include for quilting nibbles.

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    Default Re: Not quite ultimate gift for a quilter?

    I suggest a 25.00 gift car to m* or 20.00 and a little notion or two. Who doesn't like replacement blades for their cutter? Or a new seam ripper...as they do get dull or a new pair of gingher scissors....or a new template and pattern to go with it...or aa small bag..you can make filled with little scissors, needles, and such....gosh can you tell I love sewing notions and gadgets!
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    Default Re: Not quite ultimate gift for a quilter?

    A travel ironing board made from a TV tray is my most recent favorite thing that would be in that price range and of course fabric comes to mind.
    Maybe a pretty sewing machine cover would be nice. One with a paper pieced sewing machine on it was a hit at a retreat I went to last year.

    Maybe like this one. Notions
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    Claire...tell us more about the TV tray iron board!
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    What about a thread set. You can never have to much thread, and Connecting Threads has some nice sets.
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    Default Re: Not quite ultimate gift for a quilter?

    A glass jar filled with colored threads is pretty and very useful for all quilters. Or a bunch of cat quarters and a FQ pattern book.
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    What are "cat" quarters Karen? Something I should know?
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    Default Re: Not quite ultimate gift for a quilter?

    Does the gift have to be sewing related Sandy? Maybe she would like a gift card to a nice little restaurant where she and a friend could go and sit having lunch and talk quilts?

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