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Scandinavian Fabric Stars
Following along with our posts, you will have noticed that we love taking existing tools and finding unique ways to use them. Most everyone reading this will have heard of bias tape, having purchased it or made it themselves for garment trims and quilt binding.
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Scandinavian Fabric Stars with Clover’s Bias Tape Maker
Following along with our posts, you will have noticed that we love taking existing tools and finding unique ways to use them. Most everyone reading this will have heard of bias tape, having purchased it or made it themselves for garment trims and quilt binding. Bias tape maker… surely there had to be other uses for a tool that made fab strips of fabric that totally encased any fraying edges of fabric. It was during this last holiday season we stumbled onto a solution almost by accident. Shannon’s grandmother and…
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Tool School: Bias Tape Makers
Photo courtesy of Sewing Fun with Bias by Dori Troutman Learn how you can create your own bias tape in minutes. You can also make bias tape that can be temporarily bonded using an iron from any fabric you like.
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Bias Makers
What is it? – It’s common knowledge that woven fabric is made on a loom with warp (vertical threads) and weft (horizontal threads). In either direction there is pretty much no stretch at all. That’s a good thing but it also makes it pretty hard to form binding fabric around corners or adapt it to curved shapes found routinely on everything from fashion to quilting to home décor to craft projects. So what to do? How can we use fabric with little or no stretch to finish the curved raw edges found around quilts, placemats, arm…
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Simple Face Mask Tutorial By Dori Troutman
It’s incredible to me to see all the people sewing face masks by the hundreds and donating them to different places. The sewing community truly is amazing.
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Sewing Fun With Bias Tape Binding by Dori Troutman
I can’t tell you how excited I was to use the Clover Bias Tape Makers. A few years ago I purchased an off brand Bias Tape Maker and it was such a disappointment that I’ve been hesitant to try them again. This experience was so different! This is a game changer for me where making Bias Tape is concerned and I’m so excited.
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Tool School: Bias Tape Makers
By Steve Butler What is it? Bias binding tape has been called “the duct tape of sewing.” Why? Because, like the actual duct tape, it’s just so handy. We can use it to join raw edges of fabric in any fashion that suits our creative vision.