Triangle Block Cheat Sheet

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Hello Melly Designs takes all the quess work out of making Half-Square and Quarter-Square Triangles for quilt designs.

A free, printable Triangle Block Cheat Sheet can be found here

Measuring Tape Cheat Cards

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Sew4Home created printable Cheat Cards based on one of their most popular articles. Their article states, "If you’ve been sewing forever, and work with fractions every day, it may seem crazy to you that someone wouldn’t know how to read a measuring tape. But if you step back for a moment, and look at that tape measure (or ruler for that matter) with the eyes of a new sewer, all those little unidentified marks might seem a bit intimidating."

No doubt you or someone you know would appreciate Sew4Home's free Measuring Tape Cheat Cards. The PDF is free and can be printed on business card cardstock. 

Who's Worthy of a Handmade Gift?

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From the Woolery Guy: "It’s that time of year when friends, family, and sometimes even acquaintances might start hinting that they would like (or perhaps even expect) a handmade gift under the tree. Sure, they see you spinning, weaving, hooking or knitting, and they might have some idea of all the time and effort such a request entails – but are they truly worthy of a handmade gift? We’ve created a handy flow chart to take the guesswork out of this process for you so that you can enjoy your fall and winter crafting stress-free."

A printable PDF version of the chart can be found here.

Sewing Needle Disposal

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Becky from Patchwork Posse shares how to dispose of sewing needles safely in her post: Sewing Needle Disposal.

The free printable is available on Craftsy

Stay Sharp and Sew printable

"Prewashed" Labels

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How many times do you pull fabric out of your stash and ask yourself, “Has this been prewashed?” 

Orange Bettie shares a free printable label to affix to preached fabrics to eliminate the guess work. 

Prewashed Fabric - free printable

Weaving Seamless Stripes

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The Woolery Guy shares a printable on how to achieve seamless stripes when weaving.

Seamless Stripes - free printable

Yarn Organization

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Finding it difficult to identify scrap yarn because the ball bands have been misplaced? Kathleen Berlew has a solution you might find helpful: printable yarn organizer cards. Her design is nothing fancy, but it does have space for all the information you might want to keep on file about the yarn in your stash--name, color, fiber content, weight/yardage, needle/hook size, and yarn weight (4 for worsted, 6 for super-bulky, etc).

Her free, printable organizer cards can be found here.

How to Use a Color Wheel

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Learning how to use the color wheel will help in a lot of crafts - quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving, and spinning. Once mastered, color selection will become easier and projects will be visually pleasing.

We All Sew published a tutorial to show the effects of color choices and offers a free set of printable and portable cards on using color harmony.

Color Wheel Tutorial

Free Printable Color Harmony cards

Gift Tags

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Yesterday's post offered some things to remember when gifting hand-made items to non-crafters.

Little Monkeys Crochet has a fun pdf of gift tags (a few specific to crochet) available here that might make recipients appreciate their hand-crafted gifts a bit more.

Care Instruction Tags

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Need some labels for your knit, crochet or sewing gifts? Eskimimi Makes has a variety free labels available.

Some labels are humorous and others serious. Whichever style you choose, the recipient of your gift will appreciate the care information.

Knitting or Crochet Journals

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Kathryn Ivy's free printables will help you organize your knitting and crochet projects. All the pages can be accessed on this link. Scroll down and discover all the additional pages for the journals.

Size Charts for Hats

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Petals to Picots provides handy printables(free) that take the guess work out of making hats. The graphic printable pages offer sizing information for Preemies through Adults.

The page also provides a link to a free pattern for a basic crochet striped hat.

Unfinished Gift Stress Reliever

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If you are stressed about finishing handcrafted gifts for Christmas, then this is your solution. Print one of the IOUs (link given below), add the necessary information, place it in a box or envelope, and place it under the tree. The holidays can be stressful enough without working on a deadline.

A sheet of various IOUs can be found here. Print the sheet and watch your stress disappear.

Pricing Your Crafts

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Artists often struggle with how to price their items for sale.

The product pricing worksheets shown in this post can be downloaded free from Tolmema and may help to ease the anxiety of what to charge for items you wish to sell.

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Other information on how to price your work can be found on So Sew Easy. Near the bottom of the So Sew Easy article is a pricing calculator that may be helpful.

Reusable Hand Warmers

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Need a quick gift for neighbors or family members? These reusable hand warmers, made from old flannel shirts, may be the perfect item.

Heat the bags and tuck them in coat pockets for warming cold hands while shoveling the walk, while hunting, while taking a walk. The uses are endless.

A tutorial for making the hand warmers can be found here.

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Simply Notable also features hand warmers and provides the poem shown above:  a PDF is provided for the poem at the bottom of the Simply Notable post.