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Tutorial: Ending and restarting thread invisibly

June 27, 2012 by Denise Felton 5 Comments

What if you run out of thread in the middle of a complicated stitch? How do you keep the join from showing? Annet of Fat-Quarter shows her technique for solving this problem in a row of cable chain stitch. The principles could be applied to nearly any stitch. See her tute.

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Comments

  1. papatencia says

    June 28, 2012 at 12:11 am

    the link to the tutorial should be http://fat-quarter.blogspot.it/2012/06/cable-chain-stitch-how-to-continue-with.html

  2. Cassie says

    June 28, 2012 at 9:31 am

    The link goes to the Vintage Strawberry class.

  3. Mary Gordon says

    June 28, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    I did some digging and found it –

    http://fat-quarter.blogspot.com/2012/06/cable-chain-stitch-how-to-continue-with.html

  4. Jo K says

    June 28, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    Agree with Cassie – link goes to strawberry class!

  5. Denise Felton says

    June 29, 2012 at 7:22 am

    I’m so sorry for the goof! The link is fixed now. Thanks a million to my awesome readers for having my back!

    Denise

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