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Watch Us Wednesday on a Monday – Weaving Sticks
We’re so excited about this new product that we had to shake things up a bit and share our new video on a Monday. This past weekend, we introduced Weaving Sticks at The National Needle Arts Trade Show in Ohio. Stick weaving is an inexpensive and traditional way to weave. The sticks are simply held in one hand while you weave the fibers around the sticks with your other hand. You can weave a wide variety of fibers using from 2-6 sticks creating various widths of woven design. Let us…
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Friday Finds – Embroidery Notions
It’s been a fun week looking at embroidery tools and projects. We searched about, and found a few reviews of our favorite embroidery notions- Embroidery Threader, Embroidery Stitching Tool, and Protect and Grip Thimbles. If you’ve been thinking about adding to your stash, we hope you’ll find these product reviews helpful: Embroidery Threader Review from Dream Weavers Quilts Embroidery Stitching Tool Review from Crafts Unleashed Protect and Grip Thimbles Video Review from Missouri Star Quilt Co.
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Watch Us Wednesday – Bead Embroidery
Tambour is the art of embroidering with a fine hook into a fine cloth stretched on a hoop. Our line of Katan Couture Bead Embroidery Tools and accessories help you create beautiful motifs using sequins and beads to embellish your designs. You thread the beads or sequins using our needle threader before you begin, and work the tool from the backside of the fabric while working the beads from the front. The results are stunning. Fran Ortmeyer introduces the tools and process in this brief video:
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Friday Finds – Beading On a Loom
We hope you’ve been following along this week to learn more about our new Beading Loom. It’s available now, with a whole host of accessories. We know many of our customers may not have beading skills yet, so we created a few kits to help you get started. Using a kit to try a new craft is a fun way to try it out and learn the process before creating your own designs. A book by Carol Porter and Fran Ortmeyer is coming out later this summer with patterns and…
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Watch Us Wednesday – Beading Loom
We’re thrilled to share a bit more today about our Beading Loom. We created this introductory video to show you how to set up the loom and the types of projects you can create with it. The package contains illustrated instructions with more detail than we were able to include in our brief video. Just imagine the lovely pieces you can create with this fantastic new loom.
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Make It Monday – Beading Loom Jewelry Trio
We introduced a brand new product at the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee this weekend. Our new Beading Loom is fully adjustable, allowing you to create beaded pieces of varying lengths using beads in a variety of shapes and sizes. Here’s a link to instructions for creating this beautiful three piece jewelry set using the new Clover Beading Loom to show you how it works. We’ll be sharing more about this exciting new tool all this week. We’re thrilled to bring you more beading options. Do you use beads in your…
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Friday Finds – Beaded Jewelry
We hope you’ve enjoyed the posts this week featuring our French Knitter. Many of you have shared with us how you first learned french knitting using a spool with finishing nails, and you can still make i-cords this way. Our French Knitter has taken that craft to a new level by incorporating three interchangeable heads allowing you to incorporate different sized beads into your designs. It’s so easy and fun to create custom jewelry pieces this way. Here’s a few finds to further inspire your beaded jewelry making. Making Jewelry…
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Make It Monday – Beaded Jewelry
Did you know you can make beaded jewelry with the French Knitter? If you take a little extra time to string beads onto your thread before you start, it’s easy to work them into your design as you go along. An Embroidery Stitching Tool Needle Threader makes the process quick and easy. Download our inspiration sheet for more detailed instructions. You can create many variations of this project by changing the fibers and beads you choose for your design. Have you ever created jewelry with a french knitter?
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Make It Monday – Needle Felted Cuff
We hope you’re out enjoying the company of family and friends on this Memorial Day. Here’s a little crafting inspiration for the quiet moments in your day. We put together a pdf file with all the information you need to create a colorful needle felted cuff similar to the one in the video we shared with you last week. Click on the link to the printable directions for all the information you need to create your own cuff.
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Watch Us Wednesday – New Single Needle Felting Tool
We had a most wonderful time at the International Quilt Market in Portland this past weekend where we introduced our new Single Needle Felting Tool. It’s lightweight and ergonomically designed to reduce hand fatigue. It has our new Speed Needle with more barbs concentrated on the needle so your projects work up faster. Here’s a video we filmed with all the details. These new tools will be available at your favorite retailers soon. If you can’t wait, you can find the tool and the speed needle refills along with all…