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hi in this video i'm going to show you
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how to make your own fabric cards
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as you can see they can be really bright
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and you can sew them with lots of
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different stitches you can have lots of
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different effects it can be a simple
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stripe or you could go for lots of
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here are three different ones i've made
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all with the same sort of stripey design
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lots of different stitches they're great
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for using up those scraps you've got
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left over from other projects
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i'm christine of christinescrafts.com
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and this channel is all about crafting
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so let's use up those scraps of fabric
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you're going to need a card
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now you could just use some ordinary
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card and cut your own cards and fold
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or you could buy cards for crafting
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and then you want some fabric now you'll
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see here i've got lots of different
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little bits and pieces
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and that's what this project is perfect
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for using up those bits you've got left
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over from something else
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these are just craft cottons you could
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use whatever you like
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so you saw i'd got that small rectangle
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i'm just going to cut it
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into two pieces because that's what i've
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got in my mind for my design
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you'll notice i'm using a self-healing
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mat and a rotary cutter
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don't worry you can just use a pair of
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scissors there's nothing wrong with that
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you can have nice perfect straight lines
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you could have wavy lines you can do
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exactly what you want this is your
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design so you can see as i've cut two
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out i'm starting to lay them on the card
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and think about what i'm doing
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so i know what to cut out next so i have
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i'm going to cut a slightly wider strip
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and because i feel that's going to be
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for this design so just keep cutting
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or shapes you like if you want to be
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really adventurous you could cut out
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circles or indeed any other shape you
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just remember that you are going to have
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to sew around these shapes so the more
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complicated it is the more tricky the
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so i'm going to lay it all out again
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and see what i think yep it's coming to
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what i want and i've got that other
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strip up there so i need one more strip
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and i'm going to use the other fabric
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i'm going to do all my sewing on the
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if you're very patient you could do
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but i do think you'd have to be quite
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patient um and i'm also going to draw
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your attention while i cut this one out
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to the fact that when you sew on your
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sewing machine through
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card it blunts your needle so you may
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want to make sure you're using an old
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and that you take it out afterwards and
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keep it purely for making your cards
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or any other sewing that you do on paper
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so once you've got all the bits just
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make sure you have got enough to cover
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your card and it's going to do what you
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you can see i'm doing that here
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and then it's time to formalize the
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and then start sewing these really are
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super quick and easy to make
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so just lay it out don't worry about the
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fact it's going over the back of the
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card you're not going to sew it on there
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we can easily trim off all our extra
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your strips can be as long as you like
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you just don't want them too long or
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you're wasting fabric
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it won't be a problem you're going to
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so as you can see a bit of wiggling it
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i actually feel that section is just far
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too wide so let's have a rethink
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i don't want to waste the pieces i've
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cut in case i have cut them a little bit
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too narrow maybe i didn't plan this as
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well as i should have done
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let's see if we can turn them around and
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make things look a little better have to
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be careful to make sure i don't overlap
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too much over that pink
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and yeah i think that's going to look
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so now it's time to start sewing so the
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first thing i'm going to do is take my
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and the next strip down i'm going to
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and make sure they're exactly where i
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want them and then i'm going to place it
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so that i start at the fold
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now i'm going to use a straightforward
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if you've got fancy embroidery stitches
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on your machine feel free to use them it
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but a simple zigzag is all you need so
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if you've got a simple zigzag machine
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that is all you need to have do a little
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at the beginning to make sure that it
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and then off you go and sew straight
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along that join between the two pieces
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it'll hold the two pieces together it'll
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and it'll keep it looking really smart
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just work your way along
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when you get to the other end you're
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going to do a little reverse again
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and that's it your two pieces of fabric
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i know they're not sewn on around the
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other edges don't worry about that we'll
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but they are now attached to your card
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you need to be really careful to make
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sew them onto the back of the card as
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now you'll see as we move along that one
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of my seams i did go a little bit too
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far and it's a little bit messy but it
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won't stop me giving this card away and
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people love to receive snail mail and if
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you've made it it's even better
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so as you can see i've got a lovely
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all held in place so now i need to take
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the next piece of fabric
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and lay that on where you want it to go
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remember this time when you're laying
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it's permanent so be really happy before
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you take it to the machine
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once you're happy it's back to the
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and sew it in exactly the same way just
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careful not to go beyond that fold
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and now you've got all three sewn on so
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i'm going to lay that bottom one on and
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i'm going to make sure
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it covers some of that decorated fabric
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there the the pretty print
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so that they're they look better to me
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and then sew that one in exactly the
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now obviously if you've got 10 strips
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you keep doing this until you've got all
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if you've done fancy shapes you then add
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it's entirely up to you but once you're
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happy your front of your card's finished
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we're going to trim off the excess
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fabric so turn it over
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and trim off anything you can see around
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the edge of your card
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now again i'm going to use the rotary
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cutter but you can use
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a pair of scissors just take your time
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a rotary cutter is obviously easier
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because you can place your ruler along
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run your roti cutter along and that's it
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and repeat for the other two sides
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your fabric's still not going to be
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attached around the edge of the card
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but it is now the size of the card now
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there's one more edge we need to worry
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so you're going to have to fold your
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and cut along that edge and this is
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where you'll see if you sew a little bit
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far you end up with a little bit onto
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okay so now we're just going to sew all
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the way around the edge
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again it's up to you what stitch i've
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stuck with the same zigzag so it all
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just start on one side and
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set yourself going now i've decided to
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right to the edge so it just goes over
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the edge of the card so it'll minimize
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if you want a little bit of a fray on
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your cards a little bit of a rough and
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then don't take your stitches right to
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the edge and then your fabric will be
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able to fray a little bit
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on the edges when you get to the corner
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simply make sure your needle is in
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lift the foot and turn through 90
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and then sew along the other side
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and just keep doing that at every corner
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until you've worked your way all the way
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and you'll come back to where you
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started make sure you overlap the
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stitches you did at the beginning
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and do a little bit of a reverse and
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you can clearly see the little bit where
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so there you have it that's how to make
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your cards you can see the three i've
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um all very very similar
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just different shapes different colors
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probably suitable for different events
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see i've sewn all the way around looks
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this one the little embroidery stitch
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got the machine to do it but it is a
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little embroidery stitch
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and you're probably thinking by now but
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i can see all the stitches on the inside
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well yes you can doesn't bother me i'm
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quite happy to leave them there i think
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really pretty but if they do bother you
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simply cut out a piece of card that's
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of the inside of your card stick it on
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and no one will ever see your stitches
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so good luck with your fabric cards i
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