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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Make It Monday – Needle Felted Cuff
We hope you’re out enjoying the company of family and friends on this Memorial Day. Here’s a little crafting inspiration for the quiet moments in your day. We put together a pdf file with all the information you need to create a colorful needle felted cuff similar to the one in the video we shared with you last week. Click on the link to the printable directions for all the information you need to create your own cuff.
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Watch Us Wednesday – New Single Needle Felting Tool
We had a most wonderful time at the International Quilt Market in Portland this past weekend where we introduced our new Single Needle Felting Tool. It’s lightweight and ergonomically designed to reduce hand fatigue. It has our new Speed Needle with more barbs concentrated on the needle so your projects work up faster. Here’s a video we filmed with all the details. These new tools will be available at your favorite retailers soon. If you can’t wait, you can find the tool and the speed needle refills along with all…
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Friday Finds – Quilt Inspiration
While we’re away at Quilt Market in Portland this week, we thought you might enjoy a little quilting inspiration from Nancy Zieman. She used Clover Trace n Create Quilt Templates for each of these designs. The templates make piecing your quilts faster and easier and allow you to create each shape in four different sizes for maximum design options. If you’d like to see photos from the road this weekend, follow us on Facebook. We can’t wait to show you what we’re doing at Quilt Market. Happy Quilting! Santa’s Jingle Belly…
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Watch Us Wednesday – Grandmother’s One Patch Collection
Nancy Zieman demonstrates Clover Trace n Create Quilt Templates making two difficult quilt block shapes easier and faster. First she demonstrates the trapezoid shape for the Tumbler Block Design, and then she shows you how to make faux hexagons to create Grandmother’s Flower Garden Design. Both of these designs are available in one collection and each one makes four different sizes of blocks. You can create beautiful updated traditional quilt designs faster and easier with the Trace n Create Quilt Templates. We’re traveling to Quilt Market in Portland this week. We…
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Make It Monday – Grandmother’s One Patch Table Runner
Wouldn’t you love to get the look of hexagons without all the intricate Y-seams? Nancy Zieman created the Trace n Create Quilt Template for Grandmother’s One-Patch Collection that does just that. It includes super-size two traditional quit blocks – Faux Hexagon and Tumbler designs with one template collection. Both templates provide four different sizes. Fast piecing with no Y-seams! Here’s a link to the instructions to create a Grandmother’s Flower Garden Table Runner to show you a bit more how it works. Have you ever pieced with hexagons?
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Friday Finds – Needle Felting
As the weather heats up and it gets too warm to work on big wool projects, needle felting is a great substitute. We found a few small projects to share today that we hope inspire you the way they did us. Felted Dotty Necklace (shown) from Lindsay Obermeyer Needle Felted Garland from Lauren and Limn and Lovely Felted Buttons from JoJo’s Crafty Love Needle Felted Acorns from Torie Jayne Our line of needle felting tools make felting safer and easier for you. When working on small projects, the Needle Felting Claw…
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Watch Us Wednesday – Needle Felting on Silk Scarf
Did you know you can needle felt wool roving into a silk scarf? It works because they’re both natural fibers and is such a fun way to needle felt. It changes the hand of the silk and gives it a very interesting texture. You can create any design you can imagine from abstract to imagery. Here’s a very quick trade show demonstration video showing the process. http://youtu.be/ZWmfo8NyUD0 You can find our complete line of needle felting products on this link.
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We Have a Winner!
Thank you to each and every one of you who entered our May Flowers Giveaway. We were thrilled to receive over 500 entries! The randomly chosen winner of this giveaway is Regina Furman. We just sent an email requesting her shipping address, to send her new creative toys out. Congratulations Regina! We’ll post a new contest later this month, and Nancy Zieman is giving away a pair of Bordeaux Ultimate Embroidery Scissors on her blog. Leave a comment on her blog before May 11th, for a chance to win. Good luck!
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Last Day to Enter May Flowers Giveaway
There’s still time to enter our May Flowers Giveaway and share it with your friends. Click on the words May Flowers Giveaway above, and follow the instructions to enter. This contest closes at midnight PDT. Good luck!
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Make It Monday – Whimsical Felted Flowers
Needle felting is a fun way to embellish fashion and home decorating projects. The beautiful flower on the left was created by the very talented Beckie Hansen. She shared her process with us, so we could share it with you. You can download the printable directions on this link. Clover has a whole line of tools to make needle felting safer, faster, and easier for you. We’d love to hear about your needle felting adventures.