I got my first opportunity to use our new Inchie Ruler Tape in a class with our own Liz Aneloski. I was making a wallhanging for my boyfriend and the project required decorative stitching to finish the piece.
Well, the thought of that made me want to shelve the project as I’d not only need to stitch in a straight line, but the stitches would need to be evenly spaced (both of which are huge challenges for me). Then someone handed me a piece of Inchie Ruler Tape and off I went! The ruler tape took all the guess-work out of it and I was able to stitch with confidence. I ended up using the heck out of that one piece of ruler tape (it’s kind of like stick ‘em notes – you can remove it, and use it again). I also used it to center lettering and embellishments on a birthday card I made for a friend, and (most amusing to my co-workers), I put it on the edge of a cutting board to make perfect slices of a pound cake I baked for a party!
In a word, this stuff is FABULOUS! The repositionable adhesive strips are marked in 1/4″ increments, which makes measuring easy, and it’s safe to use on fabric. A package contains 80 – 1″ by 11″ rulers, so it’s also a great value. Inchie Ruler Tape was inspired by Charlotte Warr Andersen’s new book, One Line at a Time, so it’s perfect for aligning machine-quilting designs and hand-quilting stitches, as well as placement and alignment of papercrafting elements, buttons and buttonholes, embroidery, beadwork, and even stencils and faux painting patterns.
It’s rare that I get excited about a product, but I know that once you get the chance to use our Inchie Ruler Tape, you, too, will be singing its’ praises. If you’d like a chance at winning a free pack of Inchie Ruler Tape, simply post a comment telling us what your greatest creative challenge is. On Monday morning (March 16), we’ll pick one commenter at random and announce the winner later that day. Good luck!
*Note: Comments will be closed on Monday, March 16, at 9am PST
90 Comments
Oh, that looks interesting – maybe I’ll be the winner!!!
I’m an Uppercase Living Associate Dem. & This would be great for aligning wall expressions!
I think my greatest creative challenge is finding enough time during the daylight hours to sew. I seem to lack motivation once the sun has set. The tape looks like a great tool!
I had a chance to see this new product, that goes along with the book on machine quilting. I haven’t used it yet, but my machine quilting class thought it was awesome.
My greatest creative challenge is finding enough time to do all the projects I want to do. It’s also a challenge to get things centered, WOW this new product certainly will make all our lifes so much easier. Hope I win.
My biggest creative challenge is time. I just always seem to run out of it!
This does look like a very useful tool. My biggest challenge is sorting through all the ideas in my head and choosing ONE to work on!
I have two Creative Challenges – (1) visualizing how different colors will look once turned into blocks, sashing & borders; and (2) looking at the blank quilt sandwich and deciding what/how to quilt it. I’d like to see how the Inchie Ruler Tape can help with spacing & stitching my quilts.
My greatest creative challenge – making a pieced quilt! I have always been an art quilter, no rules! All that measuring and all that exacting precision. It was just too much. I am glad I did it, but will definitley think twice about it again. Though I must say that I do like doing very symetrical borders on my art quilts so I am very excited about the inchie ruler tape.
My greatest challenge is focusing on one project at a time. I probably have 15 to 20 UFO’s because the ideas keep coming faster than I can quilt them.
Challenge? Maybe sewing straight seams, or cutting straight lines?
My greatest challege is time. I have the juices flowing I just don’t have the time to throw into getting the project on a good start (because like a good book, I will just keep on going well into the wee hours of the night). This looks like an awesome product and a huge time saver!
Stitching in a straight line is definitely a challenge for me but the greater challenge is to discipline myself to tackle one project only at a time. Thanks for the giveaway!
As someone who can barely see straight, this would really be helpful!
keeping my kids out of my supplies we have the same stuff but moms is better no its not its just neater but they never listen ugh
This looks like a great product!
Thanks for the giveaway,
Maya
I would really like to try this product. I can see it being a big help.
sure would love to try this tape and thanks for doing this
My creative challenge is color. See quilts with every color immagineable and they look great. I try to do it and it looks like the compost bucket.
That looks interesting! Thanks for the review.
My biggest challenge has been keeping one of my creations for me. And I have to say second has to be organization so that when I have time I am not spinning my wheels trying to find things.
My greatest challenge is try to find something that 20 people will be interested in doing! I work at a Seniors Home, and that is 1/3 of our residents! The inchie ruler looks awesome!
looks like a great idea – thanks for thinking of it!
My biggest challenge is to cut straight lines.
Joan
I’m with you on that Adrianne if I try to do anything in a straight line without help forget it. The tape sounds wonderful, thank you for the chance. My greatest creative challenge for me is to get past the ” I don’t think I can do that” syndrome. I’m working on it LOL.
That sounds really cool. I think that that would definitely make a diffrence in some of the stiching on my scrapbook pages.
What an interesting looking notion! I’d love to give it a try!
awwww.. oooo.. I would love to win this,.. awesome giveawy. and thanks for giving us a chance to win this.Mariah #2457
what a cool tool! I do love all my tools! my most creative challenge? Right now it is feeling overwhelmed with all my UFO’s. I have way too many. I took all my UFO’s out of my sewing room. I only brough 3 back in. Now I feel like I can sew and don’t have all those UFO’s pressuring me to finish them all. I can work and finish 3 easily. when they are done, I will bring in 3 more. this way I can be creative and feel accomplishment! thanks for the chance to win
Lorene
Looks like a product I could really use. Thanks for the great info.
Sue Cahill (sbonetsue at yahoo dot com)
Thanks for writing about the inchie tape! I’m new to quilting and everyone I know uses it–but me! I’ll remember to snatch some up as soon as I see it in the store…I always forget to look.
My greatest creative challange is trying to find the time to get my projects finished. I do a bit at a time… but sometimes I need a good chunk of time to get a project to the next step. That rarely seems to happen!
THAT looks neat-o!!!
I’ve never used this tape, but it looks interesting to try.
That looks like something I would try. I have been laid off so this would make my day.
hugs
annemarie
That’s just what I need to center the lettering on my quilted calendar pages.
well, I would love to win one of these. Thanks for the post
I am anxious to try this. I need all the help I can get.
glad I came to visit!
My greatest creative challenge is to get outside the box. I am always prone to do the easy projects that I like. I recently joined the block lotto on about.com and did applique. I really like it and ready to try some more outside the box!
This really sounds exciting! I wonder if you could also use it for scrapbooking? Hmm–will have to try this out! Kathy
I have never seen this item..but sure sounds like it helped you and am looking forward to locating some so that I can try it too! Thanks for letting us know it’s out there!
WOW this way cool! My greatest challenge is to measuring things correctly and centering them
Oh this sounds really good! I would love to try it! Pick me Please!!!
My creative challenge is completing a project! I have more UFOs and planned projects then time.
One challenge is finding fresh stuff to teach. Thanks for the chance. BarefootProf@bellsouth.net
I think this would be wonderful for making felt Christmas stockings. I make them for my Grandkids and my stitching is not always even as I join the pieces with decorative stitches. A “sticky ruler” would be a real help for spacing my stitches. I would love to know where to get this product in Sacramento California. Thank you, Ana
OOH!! i see this as usueful in smocking, embroidery, and lots of thisng besides quilting!!Ineed to find this stuff!
I forgot, I love to do fabric manipulation and bobbin embroidery. I see this as helpful in much of this. Where can we gwet it ??
Hi,
My husband is looking to use the tape with his woodworking projects. What an ingenious idea! Can’t wait to try it!
Thanks, Anita in MI
Would be wonderful to use with my many many rulers
my greatest creative challenge is thinking outside the box…I tend to gravitate towards step-by-step, already thought out quilting projects and would like to break out of this traditional mold and make art quilts that have zing in their designs but am blocked in my efforts
My biggest challenge is always having enough time to create all the things I want.
Who ever thought of this, is a genius!!!
Looks like the next great gadget in my sewing box!
This looks like great stuff!
Wow, looks like a fabulous product! Thanks for having these giveaways!
This product sounds like a lifesaver (or atleast a way to avoid a few extra gray hairs) in getting good spacing in quilting designs. Duhh, such a simple concept, where was it when I was designing an elaborate celtic knotwork quilt (applique & quilting design), it would have saved much “unsewing”. Look forward to adding this to the ‘tools’ I can’t live without. Maybe ready to design another Celtic!
Now why didn’t I think of this. It’s a terrific idea with all kinds of applications.
I am a fairly new quilter and I have vision problems related to depth perception and spacing. This looks like it would be a wonderful little tool to assist me in being much more accurate with my work!!! I am going to ask some of my LQS (Local Quilt Shops) to see if any of them will be carrying this product. Can’t wait to try it out!
Looks awesome…love to try it.
My biggest challenge is getting the project from my head to the fabric. I like patterns for that reason, but sometimes the pattern for my idea just isn’t there. The tape looks like a great resource for getting things lines up on fabric.
I think this would be a great product for so many different uses. I look forward to using it.
If it is new and deals with quilting, it is worth looing into. Faster, easier and accurate is the name of the game. Thanks, Kathy
Neat products! My greatest creative challenge is a very messy sewing room. Have to move things to get to my sewing machine, and don’t even know where to begin to start getting it un-messy!
Bonnie in Snohomish, WA
I would love to try the ruler tape. Thank you for the great giveaway.
LisaB72
Hope that this product is going to be demo’ed at the Sewing Show in Sac next month. Lots of different uses , great idea.
Wow that seems like a great product, thanks for the change to win,
My greatest challenge is cutting a straight line, even my fiskars trimmer sometimes seems to get the best of me. lol.
That tape looks great. Lettering is definitely a challenge for me, so this would help center and straighten!
My great challenge is to overcome my spinal injurty – which has left me unable to use a foot control on a machine, and the newer disability of Parkinsons Disease.
I have sewn for many years and am determined to get back to being productive.
Thanks for reading
J
i am finding the reading of this item interesting. i asa quilter and a d beader and a jewlerly designer can think of a milllion uses for it but do have concerns that i didn’t see answers to but maybe playing with it would answer those!!!
My greatest challenge is saying “NO” when I am busy on my quilt machine and the family wants me to stop and do something for them. Usually something really important like where are my socks.
Greatest creative challenge…ME! I have no confidence in my ability to be creative… I can follow a pattern but…..
My most creative challeng is using nothing but cardstock. I’m getting better, but I’m not there yet.
Now,this sounds like an interesting product! I would love to win it. :-D
I love to try now products! I am always trying new notions (or buying them!) just to see if they work and to see if the product will help me in quilitng!
I would love to try out this new product!
i never win anything, so no concern here! LOL, but anyways this product sounds great, lets see it!
This looks like a great tool for many types of quilters, from hand-quilters to machine quilters, dressmakers, toy makers and many more. I’d probably use it on an applique project that I’m hand quilting. I want to quilt 3/4″ apart diagonally but not have to mark lines on my quilt. This looks like it could do the job!
Looks like something I could really use.
Please enter me in the contest. I would love to win!
Karen
I have 3 creative hangups–1)never have a cutting table at home that is big enough, 2)never enough organizational stuff and 3) no ability to sew straight lines. I’d love to try this ruler stuff! Thanks a bunch!
What a great idea!
How can I sign up for this wonderful blog?
i love to try new thing and this is new to me!
Hi, I have heard of this product but have not used it yet. My creative challenge is having grandkids live with me, interrupting my ‘muse’ and just not having enough time in the day.
warm quilt hugs, sue
My greatest creative challenge is finding the time to do all of the projects I have earmarked to do and trying to pick which one to do when I might have the time!
This looks a very interesting product and I will certainly look out for it in the UK
I love the reposition idea. It will save a lot of marking time, which for some reason I’m always off just a hare!
I think the Inchie Ruler Tape will be a great help to me when I try to quilt my jackets.
Carolyn
I get stalled on a project when I’m not sure if there isn’t a better way to do it. I seem to study something to pieces before I complete. I have to remind my self that there are no “perfect” ways to do something just lots of good ones—ie quilting design, color combination, etc.
What a great giveaway – Thanks
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