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Top Tip: Reinforcing Pattern Markings

7th May 2013

If you’ve got a pattern that you’ve used multiple times (we all have a favourite right?!), then you’ll know how battered those little pattern markings get after you’ve tailor tacked them a few times. Once they’ve been used a couple of times, those small holes can easily enlarge or tear and well, that’s just a pain in the rear! Here’s a handy way of making them more durable….

Simples!

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10 Comments

  1. Evie Jones says

    7th May 2013 at 11:36 am

    Genius!

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  2. Marie says

    7th May 2013 at 12:14 pm

    Very clever!

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  3. sushidog says

    7th May 2013 at 12:15 pm

    This is one of those ideas that I would never have thought of myself, but it’s so obviously perfect now that you’ve pointed it out!

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  4. Dibs says

    7th May 2013 at 12:37 pm

    And yet another excellent tip from you Miss P. Thank you.

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  5. beassewingadventures says

    7th May 2013 at 12:59 pm

    Maybe putting the reinforcement ring on the wrong/back side of the paper pattern would leave the markings for other sizes still clearly visible.

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  6. Helen Le Caplain says

    7th May 2013 at 1:19 pm

    Great idea – so simple, but I’d never have thought of it!

    http://www.mancunianvintage.com

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    • twotoast says

      7th May 2013 at 6:36 pm

      Exactly what I was about to say!!

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  7. Judith says

    7th May 2013 at 8:07 pm

    Smart thinking!!!

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  8. Michelle says

    8th May 2013 at 6:57 pm

    (Palm to forehead) WHY DIDN’T I think of this!?! Wonderful idea.

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  9. 2paw says

    19th May 2013 at 5:24 am

    That is a truly inspired idea. I am so old that when I was at school there were no automatically adhesive ring binder reinforcements, you had to lick them , like old fashioned stamps!!!

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