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Pattern Chart Marker Set
Pattern Chart Marker Set Visit Our Website Here! Welcome to Tool School! with Instructor Katrina Walker In this episode of Tool School, ?We will explore the Pattern Chart Marker Set. The Pattern Chart Marker Set features two different sizes of magnetized chart markers. The larger marker is sized to fit landscape-oriented letter size paper or large books. The smaller marker works perfectly for portrait-oriented pages. Each marker features two sets of thin magnetic strips. To use the Pattern Chart Markers, simply open them and slide them onto the page you wish to…
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Pro Takumi Knitting Needles
Pro Takumi Circular Knitting Needles Visit Our Website Here! Welcome to Tool School! with Instructor Katrina Walker In this episode of Tool School, We will be exploring Pro Takumi Circular Knitting Needles. Pro Takumi circular knitting needles are beautifully crafted from only the finest quality bamboo harvested from the premium portion of the stem, never the nodes. This attention to quality ensures perfectly smooth, straight, accurate needles. Pro Takumi circular knitting needles have the soft, warm hand feel that knitters love about bamboo needles. They feel wonderful to work with…
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Extra Credit: Top 10 Sewing Notions
Top 10 Sewing Notions By Shannon and Jason Take a trip to your local craft supply or sewing store and you’ll find hundreds of tools and toys that claim to make your crafting life faster and easier. But how many of these tools actually do the job they claim to do? How many of them are just taking up valuable space in your sewing room (I’m looking at you Potholder Loom). We’ve put together our list of the top 10 Clover tools we believe belong in any crafters supply closet.…
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Extra Credit: Pattern Cutting Guide
Pattern Cutting Guide By Shannon and Jason Like most crafters out there, we love our gadgets! It’s always fun to discover a new gizmo that speeds up a process or opens up new creative avenues. And, once again, Clover has created such a tool. Earlier this month they sent us a brand-spanking new product, a device we’re happy to add to our crafting collection, the Pattern Cutting Guide. If you’ve ever purchased a high-end pattern with no seam allowance, you know it can be a painstaking process to add one…
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The Ultimate Quilt `n Stitch Presser Foot
The Ultimate Quilt ‘n Stitch Presser Foot with Instructor Steve Butler Class 164 Visit Our Website Here! What is it? The ultimate goal of any sewing tool or notion is to arm the creator of a project with the ability to achieve his or her creative intent. No limitations, no holds barred. If you can see it in your mind you should be able to put thread to fabric and reproduce that vision. But some self-limiting notions, or the complete lack thereof, often produce more myopic versions of that creative vision. Without specific notion…
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Straight Pins
Straight Pins with Instructor Steve Butler Class 163 Visit Our Website Here! What is it? Let’s assume you’ve just found that perfect sewing project. Fashion, fashion accessories, heirloom, quilts, home décor, crafts, whatever. Fabric and pattern are identified and are on hand ready to go to work. What else do we need? Tools! We’ve got to measure, mark and cut our fabric to very precise standards. All set now, time to sew, right? But wait, how do we hold all of those perfectly shaped gems of fabric in perfect position? ‘Cause we know if the alignment and…
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Extra Credit: Pins
Pins By Shannon and Jason It goes without much debate that the pins are the multi-tasking wonder of any creative space. And, more often than not, we tend to take them for granted until we can’t find one… or as the case might be, find the RIGHT one. Our philosophy in our art and life is to Embrace the Creative Chaos which means we have a w-i-i-i-de variety of projects going on all at once at any given time. So, for us, having the right pin at the right time…
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“Quick” Yo-Yo Makers
“Quick” Yo-Yo Maker with Instructor Steve Butler Class 162 View at our website What is it? Fabric yo-yo’s. What’s not to like? They’re fun, fast and a definite avenue for creative expression. What can you make with these little fabric gems? Who cares? For some it’s nothing more than a therapeutic journey to some level of nirvana. But if you’re actually into making something with them, those little creative fabric medallions are perfect for all kinds of home décor applications like doilies, quilts, bead spreads, pillows, placemats or fashion accessories like dresses, vests, headbands…
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Fabric Folding Pen
Fabric Folding Pen with Instructor Steve Butler Class 161 View at our website What is it? We get it, no one likes to take the time to press fabric pieces when putting together that new creative inspiration. The sewing machine is ready, that fabulous fabric is ready, the complimenting thread is ready and, most importantly, we’re ready. Taking the time to press those preparatory seams just feels anticlimactic somehow. The truth is though, those initial ironing steps are a significant factor in determining whether our finished project is something that is polished and…
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Tracing Paper “Clover Chacopy”
Tracing Paper “Clover Chacopy” with Instructor Steve Butler Class 160 View at our website What is it? When it comes to sewing, and that’s what we do, tracing our pattern designs onto fabric is one of our least favorite activities. We find that perfect pattern, amazing fabric and complimenting thread and we just want to jump right into the sewing process so we can experience that highly anticipated creative fervor. But hold on, there is still the drudgery of the not so exciting prep work. Bummer. Probably the least favorite is tracing the pattern…