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Tool School: Bias Tape Makers
Photo courtesy of Sewing Fun with Bias by Dori Troutman Learn how you can create your own bias tape in minutes. You can also make bias tape that can be temporarily bonded using an iron from any fabric you like.
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Bias Makers
What is it? – It’s common knowledge that woven fabric is made on a loom with warp (vertical threads) and weft (horizontal threads). In either direction there is pretty much no stretch at all. That’s a good thing but it also makes it pretty hard to form binding fabric around corners or adapt it to curved shapes found routinely on everything from fashion to quilting to home décor to craft projects. So what to do? How can we use fabric with little or no stretch to finish the curved raw edges found around quilts, placemats, arm…
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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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Wonder Fuse
What is it? – Appliqué . As a noun it’s an amazing and beautiful fiber art form. As a verb, appliqué refers to the addition of subordinate decorative fabric motifs to a larger, supporting piece of fabric. It has applications to quilting, fashion, home décor and crafts. Appliqué can be elegant or simple and it can create real world, geometric or abstract schemes. By designed intention it can relate a story or simply project a meaningful image. It’s all up to you. And when you consider your creative medium is a seemingly unending array of available and ever evolving…
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Hairpin Non-Stick Lace Skinny Scarf
Non-Stick Lace Skinny Scarf Finished length: 128”/ 325 cm Finished width: 2”/ 5 cm What you’ll need: Clover Hairpin Lace Tool, item #3104 D/3.25mm Clover Amour Crochet Hook, item #1042/D Yarn of your choice – we used fingering weight yarn Thread – we used Aurifil 12wt cotton thread Scissors What you’ll need to know: Chain stitch Single crochet Hairpin Lace Tool (see Tool School Extra Credit Video) Stitch Guide Non-Stick Lace: insert hook into next 5 loops, yo and draw up a loop through all 5 loops (2 loops on…
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Tool School: Hairpin Lace Tool
Learn about our Hairpin Lace Tool and how you can create beautiful continuous braids by using a single crochet technique.
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Hairpin Lace Tool
What is it? – Scarves, shawls and wraps. Sometimes it seems as if you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all. But every now and then you see one that is somehow different. Really different. Seems to be made of endless flowing lace. It’s incredibly beautiful with a lacey, open design. And then we ask ourselves, is it knitting or crochet? Well, the easy answer is no and yes, respectively. But it’s only a “sort of” on the yes. It’s actually an old crochet technique that has been made modern with evolving creative application. Hairpin lace, that’s what it’s called. Since a crochet…
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Tool School: Amour Crochet Hooks
Learn about our carefully manufactured Amour Crochet Hooks that allow you to experience comfortable and stress-free crochet.
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Yo-Yo Pillow Tutorial
Yo-Yos are the ultimate way to use up small pieces of fabric have been a part of American culture since the 1920’s but really hit their hay day during the depression era.
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Tool School: Embroidery Stitching Tool
Learn about the Embroidery Stitching Tool and its accessories that enable us to punch needle embroider floss, ribbon or yarn to our desired fabric easily and precisely.