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Weave your own Beaded Tape on a loom

Bead weaving on a loom – this is the easiest way to create beautiful flat, rectangular strip/tape of beads- you can use it for making jewelry, as an embellishment on clothes, as a belt, or even as bag straps. You can sew this tape to the material of your project or tie it into bead … Read more

Make your own Felted Beads

If you are creative, you can conjure up beautiful things from scraps. A felt bead is one such cute thing that you can make out of wool yarn scraps. You can make these cute little fiber beads from wool fibers – be it wool yarn or even a wool fabric scrap piece. Or unspun wool … Read more

Nine Patch Block measurement and sewing for patchwork

A nine-patch block is one of the most versatile and one of the most commonly used patchwork block. It is, as its name tells you, a block which is made up of 9 equal-measuring fabric pieces. Different types of permutations and combinations possible with this block make it a very interesting patchwork block. If you … Read more

Make Braided Cord – with simple circular cardboard loom

To make this beautiful cord, you need 7 pieces of yarn and a cardboard circle. Cut out a small circle piece of cardboard. It can be any size. I have cut out one of size 7 inches in diameter. Watch the video for the full tutorial: Mark lines on the cardboard by the center as … Read more

Using Iron on Transfer Paper to print on clothes

Do you have a beautiful picture or a drawing that you want to see on your t-shirt; but are you wary of the mess you may make in the process or of the cost you will incur? When you want to transfer a particular design onto fabric, there are many options for you – including … Read more

Needle Turn Applique : The easy invisible way to applique

A needle turn applique technique is a very easy and simple hand sewing method of attaching an applique (simple cut out of fabric) on a foundation fabric. Just cut the design pieces, use your hand sewing needle to stitch the design to the foundation fabric. Nothing complicated. The technique is so named because you will … Read more