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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Today l sat for a few hours and made some fabric cards, see pics in the file section.They were such an easy project to complete and a great way to use up some special scraps of fabric. These scraps of fabric were from fabrics l had bought in London at a Craft expo held at the Alexandra Palace in 2007 and some Laura Ashley piecs l had bought in London. First l ironed my backing fabric onto a very heavy vilene, then arranged my pieces of fabric ontop of the backing fabric. Then over this top layer l placed a piece of netting or sheer chiffon and with a contrasting thread free motioned machined over the piece of work. The next step involved cutting the piece to a postcard size and ironing onto the back a piece of calico. The calico adhered to the backing as l had pre ironed some Vliseofix to it. The hot iron ensured the Calico fabric with the Vliesofix layer would adhere to the back of the postcard.

The final step involves running a close wide satin stitch around the edge of the card.
Now you have a card that can be sent thru the mail or kept as a memento of a special time.

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