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Tool School: Swift Bead
Quickly string your beads with the Swift Bead! Great to use for crochet and knitting with beads. Add beaded fringe to your project and embellish with beads.
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Tool School: Quick Yo-Yo Makers
Why do so many people make fabric yo-yo’s? The answer is actually very simple. It’s FUN! Sit down in a comfy chair, grab a handful of fabric scraps and get your creativity flowing.
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Tool School: Needle Felting Tools
Feeling creative? No holds barred creative? Want to make something that exudes light and color and texture? Something that conveys emotion? Flat is good but how about adding form or structure?
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Tool School: Trace ‘n Create Carefree Curves
Create curved designs from squares and rectangles with no curved piecing using our Carefree Curves quilt template. Designed by Nancy Zieman Productions to give a quilter endless creative options!
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Tool School: Desk Needle Threader
Join us for another session of Tool School where you can learn about our Desk Needle Threader that helps thread your needles quickly!
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Carefree Curves
What is it? Quilting construction is all about fabric cut in geometric shapes and applied in a specific order to present our preselected pattern. Squares, rectangles, triangles and curves. They are all important and can be applied in any combination to mimic our creative vision. Using these basic shapes we can create an endless array of quilt designs. Some are fairly simple and are easy to assemble. Some are more complex and difficult to assemble. And some are just crazy. Those would be the designs that include curves. We need to…
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Tool School: Slash Cutter
Join us for another session of Tool School where you can learn about our Slash Cutter with a blade that ensures smooth cutting.
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Desk Needle Threader
What is it? Few things are more essential to the sewing process than the hand sewing needle. They were around even before thread and fabric. Think about it. Ancient ancestors used “pointed” objects to perforate animal hides so they could be laced together with cords. It was only a matter of time until some smart cave person joined those pointed objects to the cords to save time. Apply technology and years later we have highly advanced, modern hand sewing needles that do basically the same thing. But these evolved sewing tools…
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Tool School: No-Hassle Triangles Gauge
Join us for another session of Tool School! This time we feature our No-Hassle Triangles Gauge. The No-Hassle Triangles Gauge was developed in collaboration with Nancy Zieman Productions to effortlessly cut, mark or stitch 1/2 square or 1/4 square triangle blocks without ever cutting triangles.
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No-Hassle Triangles Gauge
What is it? Triangles and quilts. What do they have to do with each other. Plenty. Using half-square and quarter square triangle blocks in various arrangements of color and size have produced literally thousands of quilt patterns. Solid colors, prints, batiks, fabric styles and block orientations all contribute to an unending array of designs. And triangles seem to be an easy thing to create. Right? But how do I know what size to cut my fabric blocks to begin with? There is a formula for the half-square block. You can either…