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hi today i'm going to show you how to
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make continuous yarn from a piece of
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this could be a piece of fabric you've
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got lying around a piece of fabric
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you've bought or an old sheet from a bed
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so you can use this fabric yarn for all
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sorts of crafting projects you can use
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knitting locker hooking anything you
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bags mats rugs lots of great crafting
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so i'm christine from christiescrust.com
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and this channel is all about crafting
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so let's get started you're going to
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and fold it in half so you fold it in
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half so your two side edges
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are together okay perfectly lined up
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and then the rest of the fabric is
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probably quite bulky so you can fold it
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but make sure that that new fold does
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those two edges need to be together and
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separate to that fold
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we're going to cut through that fold but
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we're not going to cut through the edges
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so how are you going to do this well you
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can do it with a rotary cutter
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and a ruler or if you don't have that or
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you can use scissors so in this video
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i'm going to use scissors
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now you decide on how wide you'll want
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now i'm going to suggest half an inch is
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i'm going to make mine really wide
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because i've got a certain bag
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project in mind for it that i think
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so i'm going to make mine three squares
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wide you can see i've got the gingham
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so it's very easy for me what you do is
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half an inch from the top of your fabric
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case three squares and cut along from
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all the way across but do not cut
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through those two edges you left
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together right at the side so as you can
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i've cut through the folded bit but i've
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sides of the fabric now i'm just
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readjusting that fold because i didn't
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so near those edges you'll find that if
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you keep that fold a little bit further
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it's easier to stop just precisely where
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so you cut all the way across but not
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so where do you stop it's entirely up to
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um you might find that you stop half an
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inch from the end and it feels a little
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too too short or too wide but at
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experiment if you're doing them half an
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stopping half an inch from the edge
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should be a reasonable place to stop
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so as you can see i'm just carrying on
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down the fabric just making sure they're
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all about the same width
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don't worry about that it doesn't have
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to be exactly precise
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but about the same width and then you
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just keep cutting down your fabric
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until you've used as much of it as you
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want to to get the length of yarn you
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just remember as i was pointing to there
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through your edges so you're still going
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that will be very scrappy but one giant
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piece of fabric still
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don't worry i'm not going to show you
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the entire piece of fabric i've got but
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i want to do a few lengths so you can
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get the idea of how to proceed
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so once you've cut as much of your
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you need to start thinking about the
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okay so you can see i've got all these
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first thing to do is just move those
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back out the way so that you can see
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okay you don't have to but it just makes
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it easier they're not going to get
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caught up in any of the uh
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the snipping we're about to do so
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starting from your top edge where you
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we're just going to deal with the top
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piece of fabric not the bottom one leave
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you're going to go one strip in and cut
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through the end it feels a little bit
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cutting through the ends but you're fine
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now you're going to count
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two strips and cut through again
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count another two strips you must always
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and cut again two strips
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and cut again and just keep going all
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the way down as far as you've gone on
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once you're happy peel those back out
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the way and we're now going to deal with
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the bottom piece of fabric
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this time from the top you need to count
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or you'll just cut a little strip off
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the top of your fabric so count
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two strips and then cut
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two strips and then cut
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two strips and then cut
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and just keep going doing that always
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and that's it you will have a continuous
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length of fabric if you've done it right
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if you're nervous about this how about
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just doing the top two or three strips
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and making sure it's worked
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once you've got them all cut off you go
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roll it all up into a ball so that it's
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ready for whatever craft project you've
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now at this point when you start rolling
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you might realize you should have
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snipped a bit nearer the edges
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in which case you can always just add
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another little snippet just extend those
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as you can see you get a lot of yarn
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out of your fabric and you can really
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create whatever you want with it
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i recommend balling it all up like this
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just so it doesn't get in a mess
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if you find when you're turning it into
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a ball it's getting all twisted up
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just adjust the way you're making the
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ball you'll see i changed to just
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rolling it in my fingers so that it
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and that's it you'll have a nice ball of
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fabric yarn that you can use for your
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i can now carry on down mine if i want
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and just keep going with what i was
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doing and you can do the same so you
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don't have to commit to the whole sheet
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of fabric straight away
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so thank you for watching and good luck
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with making your continuous yarn
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