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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Friday Finds – Fabric Flowers
We enjoyed sharing our flower making tools and projects with you all during April. Today we’re wrapping it all up with a few of the newest flower finds that found us swooning. Wearable Flower Wreath Tutorial by Emily Mother’s Day Pom-Pom Bouquet Tutorial by Mom Advice Fuzzy Flowers by Fiona Review of Clover Protect and Grip Thimbles by Everything is not Black & White Hand stitching is easier with a good thimble, so we included a recent review for you. Here’s the link to all Clover Thimbles if you’re in…
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Watch Us Wednesday – Kanzashi Flower Maker
We’d love to take you along to trade shows with us. Scrap Time filmed this demonstration at Winter CHA in Anaheim earlier this year, so we can do so virtually. You’ll see the flower wreath we shared earlier this week in the video as well as how simple it is to stitch petals with the Kanzashi Flower Makers. The other two products shown in the video are our Dome Threaded Needle Case and Ultimate Bent Scissors. A big thank you to our friends at Scrap Time for taking the time…
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April Showers Bring May Flowers Giveaway
All month long we’ve shared projects featuring our flower making tools. Now we’d like to share a few of those tools with one lucky reader. You increase your chances of winning by following all the entry options in the prize entry box you can find by clicking on the words May Flower Giveaway below. The prize package is valued at over $60 MSRP and includes: Yo Yo Makers in Large and XL Kanzashi Flower Maker in XS and Large Flower Frill in Mini, XS, Large, and XL Hana Ami Flower…
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Make It Monday – Flower Wreath
Spring is a wonderful time to decorate with a new wreath. We wrapped a styrofoam wreath with burlap, and then created a garden of fabric flower embellishements using the extra small Kanzashi Flower Makers. The centers of the flowers are a mix of buttons, seed beads, and rolled twine. You can see more particulars of the design with matching candle holder and frame on this link to the project inspiration sheet. We hope you’re inspired to create a new wreath for your spring decorating.
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Watch Us Wednesday – Pom-Pom Hair Ties
We love the way Maggie from Smashed Peas and Carrots created these adorable hair ties using our Small Pom-Pom Maker. We especially like how she tied the hair elastic into the pom-pom before she removed it from the tool. She’s so clever! We hope you’re as inspired by her creativity as we are.
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Make It Monday – Pom Pom Hydrangeas
Have you tried making pom-poms with fabric? It gives the pom-pom a whole new look, perfect for a spring bouquet. It’s easy to do if you use a rotary cutter to cut the fabric, and is a wonderful way to use scraps from quilting and sewing projects. Here’s the link to all the directions for the flowers shown on the left. The little trick to get the fluffy look is giving the pom-poms a trim at the end with pinking shears. It’s the little touches that make all the difference.…
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Earth Day Finds
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle is the perfect way to honor the planet, and minimize our footprint. For those of us who craft and create, it’s a way of life. We’re always setting aside little found treasures to add into our next projects. You know you’re a true crafter when family and friends also squirrel away little treasures they think you might be able to use in your creations. Earth Day is a great time to share our thrifty ways. We’d love to hear about your found treasures and how you…
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Watch Us Wednesday – Hana Ami Flower Loom
We put together a playlist of YouTube videos featuring tutorials for the Hana Ami Flower Loom. This loom can be used to create flowers with a variety of fibers including yarn, raffia, and ribbon depending on the look and application of the flower. The loom is packaged with the inserts you need to create different sizes and shapes of flowers. It’s an easy and fun process to make the flowers, as you can see in the videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wuXbDFXuE&feature=share&list=PL5CtqoNhlTkFaCl1wQi2HoqTdvxrqX1Ar
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Make It Monday – Raffia Flowers
Spring is the perfect time to decorate a straw bag with raffia flowers created with the Hana Ami Flower Loom. The loom can be used to create flowers with most any fiber for other projects. Here’s the link to complete PDF file of instructions to print or download to create your own raffia flowers. You can see all of our Make it Monday posts by clicking on the words Make it Monday below this post or by visiting our new Make it Monday Pinterest Board. Have you tried any of our…
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Product Parade – Ultimate Scissors
Navigating the scissor aisle of your favorite fabric store to find just the right scissors for the job can be a difficult task. Each company makes multiple lines of scissors, and it’s not easy to figure out which are perfect for the job at hand. Having the right tool can make all the difference in the ease of creating and in your finished project. We have three lines of scissors available at Clover. Today we’d like to tell you about our Ultimate Scissors, available in three styles. You’ll recognize Ultimate…