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Top 5 Knitting Notions
What is it? – When it comes to knitting and crochet it’s all about knitting needles and crochet hooks, right? Not so fast. Take a quick look in your knitting kits or visualize the process of completing any project. Something simple or even very complex. A quick inventory of what you will use will reveal several knitting or crochet accessories that significantly enhance the creative process. These items are the most necessary notions, the most valued accessories to every knitting or crochet endeavor. They are our most in demand,…
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There is something coming…
As you may have noticed by now, Clover’s Instagram has been taken over by Jenny who is one of our #CloverFans, and is better known by her Instagram username @sweaterfreakknits.
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#CloverIGTakeover
Jenny, better known by her Instagram username @sweaterfreakknits has taken over our Instagram for the week.
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Oval Loom Ankle Sock Recipe
I love playing with new tools, so when Clover sent me the new, Oval Sock Loom I dove right in. I found it to be a fun (and speedy!) alternative to knitting socks on traditional needles, and quickly altered the sock directions from the package into an ankle sock for Spring.
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Tool School: Knitting Notions
What is it? – When it comes to knitting and crochet it’s all about knitting needles and crochet hooks, right? Not so fast. Take a quick look in your knitting kits or visualize the process of completing any project.
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#StitchAwayStress
April is National Stress Awareness Month and what better way to relieve stress than to knit and crochet it away.
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One Granny Square at a Time
By Marlyn Rodriguez When you begin to dabble in to crochet and/or knitting the plethora of choices that come with the craft might seem a little overwhelming.
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Fusibles
What is it? – Interfacing is used in many sewing and craft projects to provide extra support, body, reinforcement or shape. Basically it enhances our creative potential by allowing us to do things beyond the capability of the fabric alone. A fusible interfacing is a specific type of interfacing that has a heat activated adhesive applied to it. This “fusible” type interfacing allows us to simply iron it into place. Clover and Nancy Zieman have taken this convenience a step further in the development of four really cool fusible…
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Stick ‘n Stitch Guide
What is it? – We take such great care with our sewn projects. Crafts, quilts, fashion, home décor, it doesn’t matter what. We envision exactly what we want to create. Once we have that picture, everything about it has to be just perfect. Patterns, fabrics, threads, and accessories are all selected with great care. We measure, mark, cut, pin and press with precision. And then, well, then we put it all together. We sit down at our sewing machine and put thread to fabric. And that has to be…
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Mini Beading Loom
What is it? – As children, many of us went to scout camp or attended other summer activities where beading was a staple activity. It was fun, fast, creative and we were left with something that was uniquely ours. Unknowingly that was our introduction to an art form that was thousands of years old. From the earliest of times our ancestors were accessorizing their clothes, their tools and even themselves with beads. They were worn, traded and valued by the owner. Happily bead weaving is alive and well today and…