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Needle Felting Tools You Need to Know About…Part 2
By Jodi Boylan Now, it’s time for Part 2 of the Clover Needle Felting Reviews.Today, I will be reviewing the Pen Style Needle Felting Tool and the Needle Felting Heavy Weight Refill.
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Marking Pen’s Go Head-to-Head
By Afton Warrick Often when being coached on the sport of free-motion, via instructional quilting books or online videos, the key players are described vaguely as “blue marking pen” or “air erasable marker”. This left me sidelined about a strategy for forming my notions line-up. Thanks to Clover’s sponsorship, I’ve been playing a little scrimmage so that I can help you form a marking tools dream team.
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Needle Felting Tools You Need to Know About…
By Jodi Boylan Whether you’re an avid felter or just getting started in the craft, Clover needle felting tools are some that you NEED to know about.
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Stitch Away Stress: A Mindful Approach to 3 Knit & Crochet Patterns
Stitch Away Stress: A mindful approach to 3 stitch patterns. This week on Ask Me Monday, I teamed up with my friends at Clover Needlecrafts in support of the Craft Yarn Council‘s #StitchAwayStress initiative. Our focus is how by approaching a few simple stitch patterns in a more mindful way, you’ll be able to reap the benefits of the meditative state of knitting and crochet. Here are 3 exercises for mindful stitching. Materials Any yarn Clover Takumi Bamboo Needles (for #1 & #2) — Warming bamboo is good for the…
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Unwind for Stress Awareness
Did you know that knitting and crochet are great stress relievers?
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Tool School: Air Erasable and White Marking Pen
By Steve Butler 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”?
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Bi-Color Brioche Pillow: Say Bye, Bye, Bi to being intimidated by the stitch!
A couple of weeks ago on Ask Me Monday, we went over the basics of knitting brioche stitch using two colors.
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10 Sewing Notion Essentials Recap and Giveaway!
By Afton Warrick Over the past several months, I’ve been sharing some of the latest and great notions. In case you missed any of the fun, I’m going to give you a super-speedy run-down. What’s more, Clover is sponsoring a chance for you to win a gigantic bundle of many of the notions featured!
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Tool School: Tracing Paper “Chacopy”
By Steve Butler What is it?– Fashion, fashion accessories, heirloom sewing, quilting and home decor. All of these projects are often one time or another blank canvases that are truly enhanced with the addition of the appropriate decorative pattern.
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Takumi Needles + How to Knit Two Color Brioche Stitch
Learn to Knit Two-Color Brioche Stitch! This week on my Ask Me Monday Facebook Live series, I used Clover Takumi Bamboo Circular Needles to show viewers how to knit two-color (aka bi-color) Brioche Stitch. In the video I go through each step of the basics for this double-knit technique including: joining the Contrasting Color (CC), how to work the Brioche Knit and Brioche Purl stitches, what it means to work each row twice, and how to bind-off once you’re finished! Watch and learn: How to Knit Two Color Brioche Stitch https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fvickiehowell%2Fvideos%2F1139665369475344%2F&show_text=0&width=560…