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How to join fabric yarns

You saw how easy it is to make fabric yarns yesterday. But what if you have fabric yarns that are too short to make anything? You can join the pieces to make longer yarns, of course. This is a silly simple method of joining them without tying. I cut these strips wide and I’m using two different colors to illustrate the method better here. 1. Take two strips of yarns [...]

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How to make fabric yarns

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You know one of my 2010 resolutions was to simplify my life. I finally cleaned out the closets and drawers and came up with four piles. 1) keep 2) dump 3) donate 4) re-purpose Ahhhh…it feels so good to de-clutter. One of the things I made with t-shirts from the “re-purpose” pile was fabric yarns. I always wondered how I could make yarns out of them – continuous yarns, that [...]

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