Tips & Techniques
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Looking for a tip to make better use of your crafting time? Want to get more value for money out of your tools, or simply learn more about a particular technique that interests or puzzles you? Then this section is your one-stop shop! With material uploaded weekly, you’ll find yourself coming back again and again.
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Expert Tips & Techniques
Technical Editor of Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft, Jane, shows you how to create a fabulous swing card.
Editor of Scrapbooking Memories, Kristy, shows you just how easy it is to add a touch of class to your projects using a selection of Cristina Re products.
Needles
Joan Watters helps us to understand which embroidery needles to use with various threads, for what purposes and her reasons why.
Regular readers will know that Joan is a prolific embroiderer as well as a teacher of the art, and she is always very specific about the needles to use in her projects. This is how she uses them after many years...
Framing
Joan Watters reveals some of her secrets for framing finished stitchery projects successfully – to give them that professional look.
Preparation of stranded embroidery on linen
Remove water-soluble pen marks
Preparation is most important; but you wouldn’t believe it with Joan’s way-out method of removing water-soluble pen marks!
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Whenever I'm cutting out a project, whether it be a quilt or clothes for the grandchildren, I cut the scraps into squares and pop them into zip-lock plastic bags. I'm not wasting precious storage space on bits of fabric I'll never use and I already have a wonderful assortment of 3in, 2in and 1 1/2in squares 'for free' for my next quilt!
To stop the foot controls of your sewing machine and overlocker slipping and sliding over the carpet, cut a piece of velcro and attach the hook side to the underneath of the control. Non-slip matting which is used in caravan china cupboards can also be used.
Your Tips & Techniques
Make your Sewing Machine light bulb last longer by placing machine on a mouse mat. It helps reduce...
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