Cooking
Cleaning & Home Care
Personal Finance
Sewing
Fiber Arts
100
The abbreviation for this measurement is Tbsp, and is the biggest of the measuring spoons.
What is a Tablespoon?
100
This is the best time to change the batteries on your smoke detectors.
Annually (once a year) when Daylight Savings Time begins
100
This is a broad term that describes money earned, or money that is coming into the budget.
What is income?
100
This is the name of the small spool of thread that goes in the bottom of a sewing machine
What is a bobbin?
100
This is a fiber art where loops of yarn are created and interconnected using needles, ultimately forming a fabric.
What is knitting?
200
You should always do this before preheating an oven.
What is check inside the oven to make sure it is empty?
200
This is triggered when it detects a certain concentration of CO in the air, usually from fuel-burning appliances or other sources, and sounds an alarm to warn of potential danger.
What is a carbon monoxide detector?
200
This umbrella term is often used to describe the cost of expenses such as electricity, oil for heating, water, sewage and trash services
What are "utilities"?
200
This is the extra fabric between the fabric's edge and the stitching line.
What is seam allowance?
200
This is a craft that involves using a hooked needle to create fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread.
What is crocheting?
300
Eating raw cookie dough that has eggs in it is unsafe because of the risk of this bacteria.
What is Salmonella poisoning?
300
If this type of light goes out, it's crucial to relight it safely, as a buildup of unignited gas can pose a hazard.
What is a pilot light?
300
Money that people and businesses pay to the government that is used to help everyone by providing things like roads, schools, and health care.
What are taxes?
300
When cutting fabric from a sewing pattern, use these to secure the pattern to the fabric along the edges.
What are pins?
300
This is a craft that uses a barbed needle to create shapes and designs out of wool.
What is needle felting?
400
Using this tool in the kitchen will allow you to roll out dough to a flat, thin piece to then shape into something more useful (depending on what you're doing)
What is a rolling pin?
400
Food packages with tiny tears in the corners, small brown pellets and a strong odor are all potential signs of this. (All food products need to be discarded and surface areas disinfected).
Rodent contamination / infestation
400
After you subtract the cost of materials & time from the sale price of an item you made & sold, this is what we call the remaining amount.
What is profit?
400
This type of fabric is usually 100% cotton, soft to the touch, and considered snuggly.
What is flannel?
400
You can make these using a wool felting technique to replace dryer sheets, thereby reducing waste from used dryer sheets. (They also reduce static better than dryer sheets, and aid in the drying of clothes!)
What are dryer balls?
500
This is a thing you follow, step by step, measurement by measurement, to create a dish to eat or consume.
What is a recipe?
500
Using these will help protect your skin from harsh chemicals and hot water while washing dishes, and will allow you to clean the dishes better!
What are dishwashing gloves?
500
[This] rate is expressed as a percentage of the amount borrowed. As an example, if you borrow $100 for one year at 6% _____, at the end of the year you will pay back $106.
What is interest?
500
This hot tool is used to press open seams when sewing fabrics together
What is an iron?
500
Using old clothing to cut patterns and resew together is called this.
What is upcycling/repurposing?