Tag: how to
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Japanese stab binding #53, dancing triangles
I thought about naming this drunken triangles or dizzy triangles. It’s pretty straightforward, especially with only 31 holes to punch.
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Japanese stab binding tutorial: tiara
By popular request, the tiara pattern. Sorry this has taken so long, I’ve had a lot of personal stuff going on and I thought I had lost the pattern instructions and was going to have to recreate them from memory, but I found the paper today, yay! So here it…
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Japanese stab binding tutorial: lotus blossom
The lotus blossom or lily-pad flower, whichever. 36 total holes, about an intermediate bind. Make sure that your holes along the top line are even! As always, if there is an error or if you have a question, leave a comment and I will do my best to answer. **click…
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japanese stab binding tutorial: hearts
This is a beginning bind, with an intermediate level of holes (40). If you don’t want the gaps between the hearts, then repeat the steps marked in orange until you have the desired number. When you have reached the end of your line of hearts, wrap the left edge, then…
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japanese stab binding tutorial: dancing snowflakes
This bind has 84 holes, which makes it more complicated than it might be otherwise. Also, holes 24, 44, 64, and 84 need to be much larger than the others because there are 15 threads entering and exiting. The tutorial was a bit complicated to write (though I don’t think…
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japanese stab binding tutorial: sushi
Second place in the tutorial poll. A very simple bind, no twists or complicated V shapes. 58 total holes. If you’d rather have cinnamon rolls instead of sushi, ignore the steps marked with an asterisk “*”. **click any image to enlarge** hole pattern sewing pattern EXIT = needle pointed DOWN…
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japanese stab binding tutorial: maple leaves
The maple leaf pattern tutorial, as requested in the poll! I’d say this one is pretty simple. The instructions for the ‘V’s at the edges are written differently than usual, but I hope it make it a bit easier. *Tip: make holes 1, 14, and 26 a bit larger than…
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tutorial poll #1
I’m way behind in providing binding tutorials here, and I apologize if you asked me for one and I didn’t come through. It has been so long I can’t remember which design I was asked for last…so here is a poll with some of the most recently popular designs. Cast…
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japanese ledger binding: a tutorial
Not that it’s much of a tutorial. I drew these instructions a couple of years ago, fully intending to post them…and then forgot. Or was distracted by other things. Not very hard to believe, if you know me! I was asked for more information about a ledger bind I previously…
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japanese stab binding tutorial: stars
By popular request. Next up, ‘woven’. An fairly beginner bind and a beginner hole pattern. **click on an image to enlarge** hole pattern sewing pattern EXIT = needle pointed DOWN and ENTER = needle pointed UP ===== enter 1, (leave a tail but don’t knot it) wrap around right edge,…