Did you know the average dollar store can be a gold mine of items for your sewing room at inexpensive prices? Useful tools for stocking stuffers and small gift baskets. Choose a small bin to fill, wrap, add a bow and give your quilting friend gifts they’ll thank you for all year long…
- lint rollers for stray threads on your fabrics, your chair or on you
- flannel backed tablecloths to use as a design board
- gardening gloves to use for free motion quilting
- make up brushes and pipe cleaners to clean your sewing machine
- retractable badge holder to clip scissors to your shirt when working
- ice cube trays to organize bobbins for a particular project
- flexible chopping mats to use as stencils
- pot holders to use as travel ironing stations
- pedicure holder to hold bobbins in a sewing kit
- napkin holder to organize rulers
- clear storage boxes and bottles of all shapes and sizes to hold buttons and small embellishments
- graph paper, doodle paper, notebooks of all sizes and colored pencils for drafting blocks
- beads, buttons, and ribbon
- pants hangers to use in storing blocks and small mats
- small magnets to hot glue to back of templates
- hanging shower caddy to organize threads for a particular project
- cookie cutters, coloring books and metal washers in a variety of sizes for applique shapes
- pool noodles for transporting wrinkle free quilts
- parchment paper to act as a pressing sheet
And my favorite…..an over the door shoe bag to organize stabilizers and fusibles. We’re creative people! Wrap the bin or basket in a length of fabric you think they’ll like and tie it closed with a dollar store tape measure. Add a bow and you’ll be the favorite gift giver this holiday!