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BinderClips

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18 Pcs Extra Large Binder Clips 2.4 Inch Length for Office (Upgrade)

Brand: Ufmarine

There are MANY binding clips on Amazon. I first bought a set of ‘extra-large’ clips from one company that came in colors, but they were not extra-large, just large. The 2″ mentioned was the length of the clips, not the width of the spine. The spine was only 1″ wide (see below photo).

The extra-large ones from Ufmarine are large enough to fit on a plastic folding table, and with 18 I have plenty to go around the table, but I usually just use 8- 3 each on the long sides and 1 each on the short. If it is an extra wide table, I would use 2 on the sides.

Likes-

They fit on the plastic folding tables, as well as the tables at my work, which were a smaller width top.

Easy to take off and put on.

Dislikes-

I did run into a few old plastic tables that had a wide lip on the rims and they did not fit on those. Plus a few tables at work that had a similar lip.

For the newer tables, it was a tight fit sometimes when I had three layers- backing, batting, and top. As long as I was able to get most of the clip on it was okay and they held well.

With a thick table they sometimes popped off and I had to hunt for them. Not often, but be aware of the possibility.

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OilMister

Misto Oil Sprayer, Set of Two, Silver

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If you don’t choose this particular mister, look through them to make sure you get the pump mechanism rather than just the little tube. The pump is what makes it a single press rather than wearing out my finger pressing the top to spray it. But the mister does work for a single press- you get a LONG spray of glue with that one press. I make queen size tops and could get a good four foot by table size done in one spray, then another pump and spray the other side of the quilt.

I liked that this was a 2 pack and I even purchased another pack later on.

I used an empty water bottle (like she did) at first to mix my glue basting but after one or two fills it started to become uneven and wouldn’t sit right. I eventually changed to a flavored water bottle instead with the harder plastic.

I found that if used less glue and made it more runny and got the same results. Using the glue amounts that Slightly Off Quilter suggested had the spray coming out in globs rather than the fine mist (it could have been that my water bottle was different than hers, I had wavy lines and hers had straight lines). The fix was to add more water to the mister directly when it came out in spits and spurts until it misted well. Once I finished that bottle I didn’t add glue to the top of the bottle like she did, I added a little, but not as much as she did.

The difference could have been my temperature was colder than hers, being in Alaska. The big thing is to play around with it to find the consistency best for you.

Likes-

Pump 10 or so times and you get a long spray- LOVED IT!

Two sprays per quilt section, and four per quilt in that section before moving to the next section.

The pump makes the mixture go a long way. With the first water bottle I did Dive On In, the 38″ x 38″ baby tester, another 45″ x 45″ baby quilt, and Sawyer (lap size). I still had enough left over to do half of a queen quilt. That was a lot of quilts for one 16 oz bottle of glue and water!

Dislikes-

It does get sticky with the pumping and then you leave it to dry. However, with it being diluted, it is easy to break and pump again the next time you need it.

When you go to add more glue in, the hole is not very big, so you can dribble on the sides easily. I would suggest getting a funnel, however you need to be able to see inside to measure half way, and that is difficult to do with a funnel in the way. I fill in the sink if I can and peek often.

When you open to fill, you really don’t have a place to put the pump part while filling. If I don’t fill it in a sink I upturn the lid and place the pump in the hole (which doesn’t help it to NOT get sticky).

The screw top can be hard to get off sometimes as it will stick. However, the mister that I use for my oil is also sticky to get off, so I think that maybe the contents are ‘vacuumed shut’ with that final push to close the pump to the body, even though you are to ‘bleed’ the pressure by unscrewing the top enough to let the pressure out.

Once, I left the pump in my car while I was at work, and it was in the low 40’s, high 30’s. The pump would not work at all. I had to run hot water over it to warm the bottle up and after that it worked fine.