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Find endless ways to use fabric for crafts projects and home decorating. Get sewing tips, wall art ideas, quilt patterns, window treatment options, and more.

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Fast Fabric Facelifts

Check out these ideas -- each using a yard of fabric or less -- and get started with your own decorating redos.

"… Glue all layers with Styroglue. Cut fabric into squares large enough to wrap the … 2 -inch overlap on the back. Staple fabric to the back with a staple gun. Cut a … Add style to a plain wooden chair with fabric . Remove the seat and back from the chair …"

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Make a Fabric-Covered Lampshade

Purchased shade Fabric Clothespins Heavy-duty spray glue Cording (optional) Fabric glue or hotmelt adhesive Cloth measuring tape Chalk Contrasting fabric Using a purchased lampshade cut a piece of fabric that's 2 inches longer than the circumference …

Shopping for Upholstery Fabric

… 2: Line up the pattern. Patterned fabric should line up throughout the piece … it should look as though one piece of fabric drapes the entire piece. Point #3 … they should refund it when you return the fabric . Other stores may allow you to order …

How To: Fabric Clothespin Caddy

Sew a Fabric Clothespin Caddy Download our free pattern and create your own hanging fabric clothespin caddy. This do-it-yourself storage … Tracing paper 1/2 yard of 45-inch-wide print fabric (for caddy front and back) 3/4 yard of 45 …

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Sewline Fabric Tools

Sewline Fabric Tools make marking and erasing lines and gluing fabric easy!

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more smoothly. Let's talk about this tool. It's a really hand, 3-in-1, fabric marking

this eraser is specially designed to keep the particles out of your fabric weaves so they don't get all stock in there. Also, both leads are water soluble, so you can also use on damp

a blink stylus. This is great for tracing or making indentations on fabric . So, I've got a pattern here with some graphite paper and I am going to just trace around the pattern. This is

also makes a really handy tool for this as well. It's a fabric glue pen and it's a blue glue. It dries clear and it's also water soluble. This is really great when you have

Quilt Market: Color Your Own Fabric

Create your own fabric designs with these three techniques and products editors discovered at Quilt Market spring 2007.

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paint you put on your fabric . Another fun thing that you can do with these paints is to put textured surfaces underneath your fabric and make rubbings. So, for this, we actually work directly on the fabric with the paint stick and we always work away from our hand in one direction. If we were to rub back and

basically just colored pencil and . It purely is just pencil on fabric . I fused my fabric to freezer paper or you could also put it on some fine sandpaper just to stabilize it while you're coloring, and then

up with a brush and use the brush to stencil on our fabric .

liquid textile paint, we're going to scrub the paint in onto our fabric . Now, since I have a gold here, I'm going to show you what this looks like on a dark color of fabric and you'll see that you can get a very sheer image or a very bright image depending on how much

really fast. Now, after you finish putting paint stick color on your fabric , whether you're making rubbings or stenciling or drawing directly on your fabric ,

what you need to do is let your fabric dry. For rubbings, we would let this dry for 3 to 5 days. Stenciled images would be ready to heat-set within 24 hours. Then, we're going to put the fabric paint side down and use a parchment paper or a round draft paper or something that's grease-proof, and heat set it with

find what it would take to accomplish that look. I use a fabric paint made by Dr. Martin. And for these, I used a dry brush where you get the---- you wet the brush with

Covered Canvas Art

This fast project idea takes only a canvas, fabric , and a staple gun. Plus, it's easy to change your style with each season.

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Fabric is a great way to add color and pattern to a room, especially as affordable wall art. The next time you're at the fabric store, check out the sale bin. You'll be amazed what you can find for a discounted price on that rack. It's style by the yard. Look for fabric patterns that complement your room; stripes, graphic floral patterns work really great. Figure out what size of a canvas you want, and we're just gonna wrap the fabric around it. Cut the fabric , about maybe 2 inches wider than the canvas size that you need, and then align it from the reverse side. Try to find a leaf or a flower or stripe, so you can make sure your design is straight. Then you're gonna use a staple gun and wrap it similarly to how you wrap a package. Start at this end and staple just every few inches. Pull the fabric so that it's taut, but you don't wanna pull it so, so tight that you create these little ridges in it. That doesn't create a smooth look on the front. Do opposing edges first so that you get a nice smooth front, and you can do 1 frame like this, or you could buy 2 to 3 fabric coordinates, and hang a series of 3, and get your last staple in. Do this technique where you just pinch the edges together and then pull this corner, and just lay it down flat. Pull it straight into the center of the canvas. This will give you a nice smooth edge. It looks great from the front, rather than wrapping it and trying to square off the edges, which will layer your fabric too much and bunch up, and then the piece won't hang straight on your wall. Staple each edge here so that you

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Coordinated Christmas Crafts & Decorations Made from Paper & Fabric

… to fit your holiday scheme. Adhere fabric to the paper forms with Mod Podge and … the ornament over the portion of the fabric you'd like to use and trace around it. Use Mod Podge to adhere the fabric onto the ornament and top with buttons …

Fabric Embellishing

… stores for paints specifically made for fabric is logical for these types of projects … It makes the acrylic paint dry soft on fabric and, when heat-set, can be washable … fashion. To repeat the pattern across the fabric , paint all the eggplants first, then …

Update Your Kitchen with Colorful Fabric

… countertop below. Just off the work core, a fabric -topped banquette updates the expected … wood are easy to update: Just change the fabric that tops your kitchen chairs or barstools. A few yards of fabric makes all the difference. Take a break …

Fresh Project Ideas for Fabric or Paper

… and stylish yet simple trim ideas. Buy fabric at cheap prices and craft an easy-to … the circular motif on the small-circle fabric by cutting large circles in assorted sizes … as you wish, and can be covered with fabric and ribbons that complement your room …

Make Crafts with Paper, Paint, and Fabric

… the tiniest pieces of leftover or favorite fabrics with these wineglass charms. Cut small squares of selected areas of the fabric and insert each into a frame pendant. Earring-hoop wire threaded through the pendant loop makes it easy to attach the charm …

Fabric Makeovers for Outdoor Rooms

Add pizzazz to a pergola with fabric panels. Curtains sewn from outdoor fabrics … provide an ideal place to hang outdoor fabric . This arrangement frames the yard, similar … cinched-up shade and chandelier. Hang the fabric from the ceiling and gather the ends stagecoach …