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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…
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Watch Us Wednesday – Pom-Pom Hair Ties
We love the way Maggie from Smashed Peas and Carrots created these adorable hair ties using our Small Pom-Pom Maker. We especially like how she tied the hair elastic into the pom-pom before she removed it from the tool. She’s so clever! We hope you’re as inspired by her creativity as we are.
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Earth Day Finds
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle is the perfect way to honor the planet, and minimize our footprint. For those of us who craft and create, it’s a way of life. We’re always setting aside little found treasures to add into our next projects. You know you’re a true crafter when family and friends also squirrel away little treasures they think you might be able to use in your creations. Earth Day is a great time to share our thrifty ways. We’d love to hear about your found treasures and how you…
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Watch Us Wednesday – Hana Ami Flower Loom
We put together a playlist of YouTube videos featuring tutorials for the Hana Ami Flower Loom. This loom can be used to create flowers with a variety of fibers including yarn, raffia, and ribbon depending on the look and application of the flower. The loom is packaged with the inserts you need to create different sizes and shapes of flowers. It’s an easy and fun process to make the flowers, as you can see in the videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wuXbDFXuE&feature=share&list=PL5CtqoNhlTkFaCl1wQi2HoqTdvxrqX1Ar
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Friday Finds – Yo-Yo Maker Inspiration
The fabric yo-yo had humble beginnings as a way to turn scrap fabric into beautiful embellishments with a bit of hand stitching. It’s been translated into so much more over the years. You’ll now see them stuffed and turned into beads in jewelry or stacked together to create trees and all sorts of critters. You’ll also see the fabrics used have expanded from cotton and calicos to include silk, wool, velvet, and chiffon. Clover has a line of reusable templates that snap together with stitching guides to make the process…
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Make it Monday – Flower Frill Decor
Spring is here, flowers are blooming! Flower Frills are a great way to breathe new life to any room. This Flower Frill Decor project will help you achieve just that. Make your own original home decor with the Flower Frill Templates. Celebrate spring with adding bright flowers to your home.
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Kanzashi Holiday Tree Centerpiece
Holiday Tree Centerpiece by Alicia Carr Materials: Large Daisy Kanzashi Art No. 8489 Small Daisy Kanzashi Art No. 8488 58 Gold Bells 6” Diameter Styrofoam Base 8” High Styrofoam Cone 2 ½” Pom-Pom Maker Art No. 3126 1 reel Mini Quick Bias Tape Art No. 730 Gold 12” Square White Felt to cover Base 1/3 yd. Green Felt to cover Tree Cone & Flower Backs 5 ½ yds Total of assorted Christmas Fabrics Quilting Pins Art No. 2508 Instructions: Step 1: Make 24 large Daisies (11 petals each) following package…