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Tool School: Pressing Station
Pressing Station essentials represent the perfect, most purposeful tools for fabric manipulation at both the pressing station and the sewing table. There are lots of craft applications too.
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Pick Me Up Cards! – Sewing Project
Everyone needs a little pick me up from time to time and these fabric cards are the perfect way to lift anyone’s spirits.
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Half Moon Makeup Pouch – Sewing Project
Designed by Debbie von Grabler-Crozier Sewing is fun and it allows us to add our own personal twist to something that can be easily bought in-store. Pouches are always handy and can be used to store any array of items.
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Tool School: Wonder Fuse
Join us for an overview of the Wonder Fuse. Use Wonder Fuse to turn most any fabric into a fusible fabric. This paper backed fusible web will keep your fabric soft and ready to sew.
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Danish Heart Mats – Patchwork Project
Designed by Debbie von Grabler-Crozier Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and we have a few Valentine’s Day projects planned for you! First we have these Danish Heart Mats for our sewists. They use a simple patchwork technique and are a great addition to your existing decor.
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Handmade and Handpicked Pom-Pom Hydrangeas
Maintain brilliantly colored Hydrangeas that you never have to water! Use our Pom Pom Makers, select hand-dyed fabrics that are complimentary to Hydrangeas, add stems and leaves and you’ll have a stunning bouquet.
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Tool School: Rotary Cutters
By Steve Butler What is it? Everything we do in sewing starts with cutting larger pieces of fabric into smaller pieces of fabric before we can reassemble them into larger pieces of fabric fitting our creative design. Fashion, quilting, home decor and a whole host of accessories for all of them.
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The Perfect Crafty Gift by Joan Hawley, Lazy Girl Designs
The Perfect Crafty Gift by guest blogger Joan Hawley, Lazy Girl Designs Gifting for someone who crafts can be a challenge. What do they already have? How do you know if it’s any good? What would they like? Will they use it? I think we can meet all of these challenges with the perfect gift – Press Perfect, in fact. My Press Perfect line of products by Clover have been out for a year now, so it’s still quite new. And what a year it’s been. I’ve been all over…
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Tool School: Nancy Zieman’s No-Hassle Triangles Gauge
What is it? – Quilting is truly an art form and over the years thousands of recognizable patterns have evolved. And each one of those has several if not an infinite number of variations. And how many of those do you think include triangles? It’s got to be in the thousands too. Colors, prints, batiks, fabric styles and block orientations all contribute to an unending array of designs. So what’s the problem? What’s the hassle? The hassle is making all of those little triangles and making them perfect in…
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Yo-Yo Inspiration
Yo-Yo Wine Bottle Sack This wine bottle sack is a perfect portable project, use up scrap fabric to embellish a wine bottle holder as a great DIY gift. Yo-yo’s can be easily made with Clover’s Quick Yo-Yo Makers which provide great texture and embellishments to any project. These templates are available in a variety of sizes and shapes including heart, butterfly, oval, and more. The template allows you to make evenly spaced stitches which create beautiful gathers uniformed yo-yos each time. Today’s the last day to enter our Summer Giveaway: Wrap…