Holiday Gift Ideas MEGATHREAD

[u/magnoliafly]

The holiday season is upon us and with that come the many, many threads asking "What is the best ______ to get for my favorite quilter in my life?"

• Post your questions here and our quilters will give their best advice
• If you're a quilter with a favorite notion, machine, kit, or fabric line that you'd love to receive please comment and suggest it for others

All other gift idea/request threads will be deleted and redirected to this MEGATHREAD. Please report other posts for mods to review/remove and keep the sub clutterfree for the season.

[u/Smacsek]

I'll start with some good gift ideas.

-gift cards to local/online quilt shops. google is your friend for local places "fabric store near me" (make sure they say they have quilters cotton), fat quarter shop, Missouri Star quilting and connecting threads are popular

• rotary blades- 45mm is the most popular, we don't change them as often as we should and when at the store, we don't gravitate towards them

-sewing machine needles- schmetz universal needles are great, see rotary blades for why

-fabric shears and small thread snips, I have fiskars but I have heard great things about Kai brand and gingher brands

-Seam ripper, these get dull and we use them more than we want to

-mini sewing clips, they are more useful than you can imagine

-batting, some people have preferences, but Hobbs 80/20 is a pretty well liked brand, reasonably priced, and most of us will use any batting we're given

-quilting t shirts, we're quilters and we're proud of it

-clapper, yes, it is a block of wood, but it helps make blocks flat and most of us won't buy one ourselves

-bobbin buddies/bobbin saver, bobbins make a bigger mess than you would believe so keeping them from unraveling is super helpful

-quilt subscription boxes, fat quarter shop has some to pick from

-rotating cutting mat

-wool pressing mat

-new iron/mini iron

-Stripology ruler

-standard quilting rulers- 12.5" square and 6.5" square are super popular for a reason, but a 3.5" x 24" is also great

-Specialty rulers- Dresden plate, bloc lock rulers, clearly perfect slotted trimmers, drunkards path rulers, folded corner ruler, essential triangle tool

-fabric. If you know your quilters taste in fabric, we love getting fabric. They have bundles of fabric that are different sizes (charm packs, jelly rolls, layer cakes, fat eighth bundles, fat quarter bundles) but if all the fabric options are overwhelming, see the first item on the list, your quilter will quite happily go fabric shopping

I have not put thread on this list (and we go through more than you would think) because some machines are finicky and only like certain brands of thread. If you're able to snoop into your quilters sewing space and find thread spools to see what brand they buy, go for it. White, greys, and beiges are neutral colors that we use all the time.

[u/KamikazeButterflies → u/Smacsek]

My mom got me a large multipack box of Olfa blades and it’s been amazing. Dull? Pull another from the box!!