Clover Needlecraft
Offering the highest quality sewing, quilting, knitting, crocheting, needleart, beading and craft supplies. Company Overview Clover brings you the best in quality and value for all your craft projects. Manufacturer of premium Sewing, Quilting, Knitting, Crocheting, Needleart, Beading, and Craft Supplies.
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Tool School: Iron Shine Cleaning Pen
What is it? – By a show of hands how many of you really like to iron? Exactly, not many hands. We usually iron what we have to iron and not until we have to. The unfortunate fallout is that because of this our irons often become the most neglected tools in our sewing arsenal. Through the process of creating our masterpieces our irons pick up deposits from the materials we use. Sizing, fusibles, spray adhesives and sticky back stabilizers are some of the villains. It’s unavoidable. Take a look…
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Father’s Day Gift Personalized Nancy Zieman E-Tablet Keeper
This Father’s Day make it personal!! Try our Nancy Zieman Trace ‘n Create E-Tablet Keeper. Materials needed: Nancy Zieman E-Tablet Template Nancy Zieman Fuse ‘n Bind Nancy Zieman Create-a-Strap in both 5/8″ and 1.25″ Nancy Zieman Pre-Cut Tablet Keeper Shapers Ultra Firm Interfacing D-Ring (optional) Elastic Velcro Fabric (Fat Quarter Bundles work great for this project) *Please note you have the options of making an E-Tablet Keeper in small, medium, or large. The instructions included in the package will give you the necessary measurements for each size. Instructions may also…
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Summer Frost Mini Beading Loom Project by Carol Porter
Supplies: Mini Beading Loom Art No. 9924 Beads 11/0 cylinder Thread Gray Beading Needle & Threader Darning Needle Scissors Earring Supplies: 10 Clam Shell Crimps 2 5-strand multi connectors 2 Jump Rings 2 Earring Findings Earrings Bead Design 10/Warps 11 1. Warp the loom with one continuous thread to form 11 warps. 2. Start weaving the design at the 5th warp and follow the Bead Placement Chart working from the bottom, left to right. 3. Follow the increase directions found in the package instructions. 4. Hide the Warp and Weft…
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Marking Pens
What is it? – “The devil is in the detail”. It’s a common enough phrase. Perhaps some of us has even used it. But what does it really mean, “the devil in the detail”? How often do we start a project that looks like it’s going to be a snap, only to get bogged down in all of the details. You know, all the little things that consume so much time, make us a little crazy and eventually affect the quality of our finished project or maybe even determine…
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A Few of My Favorite Clover Tools for EPP by Diane Gilleland
A Few of My Favorite Clover Tools for English Paper Piecing By Diane Gilleland My new book, All Points Patchwork, is all about English paper piecing (otherwise known as EPP) – a lovely hand-sewn patchwork technique. I’m a big fan of hand-sewing in general, and my toolbox is brimming with Clover! So I thought I’d share some of my favorites, and how they make my EPP easier. (If you’d like to see some EPP in action, by the way, check out these videos.) Applique Pins, Fabric Glue Stick The first…
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Tool School: Mini Flower Loom
What is it? – “Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.” That’s what Henry Beecher thought anyway. So how important are flowers? Claude Monet once wrote that he may very well have become a painter because of flowers. Art, literature, music, culture . . . all are replete with references to flowers. Can you imagine a Spring morning in the Colorado Rockies without fields of wild flowers? Or Japan without cherry blossoms? A prom without orchids. Perhaps Valentine’s Day without red roses?…
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How to Fix a Dropped Stitch!
We’ve all done it: dropped a stitch while knitting. Depending on how many rows down that slippery, little sucker fell we may or may not feel the dread of the inevitable: unknitting (aka “tinking”) several rows of precious stitching. One row down is simple: just use the right-hand needle to pick up the loop of the stitch in the row below; place it on the left-hand needle; pull the “rung” or strand of yarn from the current row through the stitch on the needle, letting the other strand drop down…
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Hair Pin Lace Tool Review and Giveaway with the Underground Crafter
Welcome to my themed blog series, Crochet Specialty of the Month! Each month in 2015, I’ll feature a specialized crochet technique, stitch pattern, or project type through several posts. As part of this month’s focus on hairpin lace, I’m sharing a review of my favorite hairpin lace loom along with a giveaway sponsored by Clover USA! Read on for your chance to win one of two Clover Hair Pin Lace Tools! I reached out to the nice folks at Clover because I really love their Hair Pin Lace Tool (also known…
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Tool School: Jumbo Amour Crochet Hooks
What is it? -There was a time when almost all of the gals and some of us guys grew up learning how to crochet from our moms or grandmothers. It was a necessary skill that seemed to play out as life became more fast-paced. All of a sudden it was more economical to purchase finished goods than to buy materials and devote the time required to complete a project. Times have changed and creativity is making a comeback. Crochet now goes to places where grandma never imagined. And what takes…
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Mini Beading Loom Woven Ring by Carol Porter
We’ve had a lot of fun learning what can be done on this mighty little loom. One evening my son Jon and I were talking about how to create a ring on the loom. Here is how we figured out how to make the ring. We needed the warp to be stretchy, but realized the weft could be done with the regular 100% polyester thread. A great bead design and we were ready to weave! Supplies Mini Bead Weaving Loom Clover Art No. 0.5 mm clear stretchy cord 100% polyester…