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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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Hot Ruler
& Hot Hemmer Hot Ruler Large and Hot Hemmer Square with Instructor Steve Butler Class 159 View at our website Visit our website What is it? If we were to make a list of essential actions required to achieve our most lofty creative aspirations when sewing, pressing would be near or even at the top of that list. Precise pressing of our project component pieces during the construction process often marks the difference between a completed project that appears polished and professional or something that appears more homemade and amateurish. By pressing during the construction…
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Extra Credit: Hot Hemmer Square & Hot Ruler Large
Hot Hemmer Square & Hot Ruler Large By Shannon and Jason Well… Clover has done it again. Just when we were looking for a product, here they are with exactly what we need. They have expanded their line of pressing tools to include the Hot Ruler Large and Hot Hemmer Square. If you are a garment sewist, the larger ruler is something you are already familiar with, and it is this product we were JUST looking for to use in our own garment making as well as to adapt for quilting.…
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Winter Giveaway 2021
It’s time for our seasonal giveaway! The anticipated Winter Giveaway is finally here!
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Extra Credit: Pillow Slipcover By the Shibaguyz
Pillow Slipcover By the Shibaguyz It’s inevitable, especially at this time of the year when we are spending so much of our time inside with our possessions. You start to notice all the small things: The pulled threads, the small stains, that slightly worn edge on the sofa pillow. Or maybe you are just really tired of looking at the same elephant staring at you from the pillow print. New Years is just around the corner, it’s time for an easy makeover. We suggest the humble Pillow Slipcover. The pillow…
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Pressing Station
Pressing Station with instructor Steve Butler Class 125 What is it? We’ve all seen it. Two friends make the same sewn project using the same pattern and similar fabrics and threads. Both friends are accomplished sewists so we’re kind of expecting the finished projects to look the same or, at least, similar. And yet somehow, they’re not. One is a little more rumpled and uneven. The intersecting seams don’t lie flat and the stitch-work stands out so far as to be obvious when it shouldn’t be. And there’s something about the darts that just isn’t right. But…
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Holiday Cloth Napkins – Simple Sewing Tutorial
Happy November friends! I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday so when November comes I’m always looking ahead to Thanksgiving. Do you enjoy setting a beautiful holiday table? One of my favorite things for setting a table for special meals are using cloth napkins.
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Sewing Must Haves
So, you’ve been bitten by the creativity bug and you’ve decided that sewing is going to be your next foray into the maker world… WELCOME!
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No-Hassle Triangles Gauge – 3 Easy Projects
The No-Hassle Triangles Gauge is one of those tools we looked at and thought “what on earth are we going to do with that?” Like always, as soon as we put it to the test, we discovered just how useful it was and couldn’t put it down. No, really… that’s how y’all ended up with three projects for this particular tool. We just kept making half and quarter triangle squares and turned them into projects. Particularly if you are a new quilter or have never made quilt blocks before, you’re…
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Fall Wardrobe Sewing & GIVEAWAY with Lily Shine Creates
Hello!!! I am Cassie of Lily Shine Creates and super excited to be a guest on the Clover blog today! A few months ago, they had reached out and asked if I would like to receive a #CloverSquad box. I was familiar with Clover products at the time but didn’t have a ton of sewing tools so I of course said yes! Hello!!! I am Cassie of Lily Shine Creates and super excited to be a guest on the Clover blog today! A few months ago, they had reached out…