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HOW TO SEW A FABRIC CORNER BOOKMARK - Quick and Easy to Make for Beginners and Use up Fabric Scraps
Jan 15, 2025
Sew your own fabric corner bookmarks even if you are a beginner! These bookmarks are so pretty and practical yet easy to make. Use up those fabric scraps and make bookmarks for you and your friends and family.
They make a great gift when given with a book or voucher. They fit nicely in the post if you are sending a gift.
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hi today in this video i'm going to show
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you how to sew your own fabric corner
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bookmark
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they're really easy to make use up all
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those fabric scraps
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and they're great for yourself or as a
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gift for any book lover you know
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they're really nice to put in the
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envelope with a voucher if you've got to
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post your gift this time
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so stick with me and you'll see exactly
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how to make one
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i'm christine of christinescrafts.com
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and this channel is dedicated to
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crafting on a budget
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please subscribe if you like what you
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see so you'll see all my videos as they
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come up and please give me a thumbs up
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below
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so what are you gonna need you're going
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to need some squares of fabric
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and interfacing okay so we've got two of
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this pattern
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one of that and two of the other so
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you're going to choose your main fabric
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and you're going to cut
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two squares out should be four inches
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by four inches and you need two squares
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of that one
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you're then going to follow that up with
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whatever fabric you want to make the
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triangle out of for a front of the
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bookmark
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and you're going to cut one square of
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that also
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four inches by four inches
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you're then going to need some iron on
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interfacing
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and you're going to cut two squares of
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that and you'll not be surprised to
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learn
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four inches by four inches and that's
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everything you need
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just make sure you know which sides the
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gluey side and which side is not
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because when you're using it that's
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going to be very important
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so now we've got everything let's start
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assembling
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you should have two squares of your main
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fabric one square of your triangle
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fabric and two squares
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of interfacing take one of your squares
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of interfacing
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and fold it in half doesn't matter which
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way at the moment all you're doing is
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marking to cut it
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so once you've cut it once you've marked
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it you're going to cut it
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into two triangles so you've basically
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cut it in half
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to form two triangles and you're going
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to use one of them
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and you're going to put the other one
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aside for the next bookmark you make
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a piece of interfacing is going to be
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used on your front fabric
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so make sure you've got the wrong side
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of that front fabric
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and you're going to place your
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interfacing on it
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two things to be sure make sure your
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fabric is right side down
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and make sure your interfacing is gluey
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side down
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onto the fabric place it carefully
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and then press it in place you're gluing
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it
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to the fabric and then it can't move
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about while you're sewing and cause you
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any difficulties
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just make sure it's smooth make sure
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it's down make sure it's glued in place
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once you're happy with it you're going
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to fold
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your fabric in half so that it covers
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the other side of the interfacing you're
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basically making your interfacing into a
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sandwich in the middle
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and then press along that line and you
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can see you've formed the triangle for
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the front of your bookmark already
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so now we need to think about assembly
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okay
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we've got that what about the other
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piece of interfacing we had
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we're going to take one of our main
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pieces of fabric
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place it right side down check your
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interfacing
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make sure you put it glue side down
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and you're going to stick that down
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to your piece of main fabric again
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just use your iron it doesn't need to be
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too hot just hot enough to melt the glue
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press it in place until your interfacing
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is stuck
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firmly to your fabric
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just check at the edges you'll see if
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it's lifting and a little bit more heat
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and just check it's firmly down
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and then you're ready to build so i'm
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going to go back to my board
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you're going to place that piece of
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fabric that's got the interfacing on it
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face up so we've got the right side
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facing up
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take the triangle you made the both
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sides of the right side
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place that down across there like that
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and then you have your other piece of
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fabric and you're going to place that
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right side down
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over the other two and you can check
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you've done it right
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you can just peel them back and you
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should have
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right side triangle right side
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and now we're just going to pin that in
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place you'll notice i'm just using some
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large pins
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because i just want to put one on each
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side if you like using clips that's
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perfectly fine
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all you've got to do is make sure you
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secure it and that you're not twisting
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it as you go
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so the first pin i put in incorporated
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the triangle
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to make sure it held it in place
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and then you can see i've twisted it
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slightly so i'm just going to go and put
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the pin in the opposite
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corner and then
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complete by putting the other two
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corners in
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so you pin in the whole thing even
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though you're not going to sew
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absolutely all the way around
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pin all the way around and then it's
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time
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to sew it in place
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so after your sewing machine or you can
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hand sew it but you got to remember to
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leave a gap
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so that you can turn it out so i
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recommend
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a couple of inches maybe an inch and a
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half
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so what you're going to do is start part
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way along one side
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a little bit of reverse to keep it tight
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so it doesn't unravel
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get to your corner needle down
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lift that foot turn
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and go all the way along the other side
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take the pin out so that i don't sew
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over it
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get myself to the next corner
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needle in foot up turn and this way you
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get some nice
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crisp corners which is what you want on
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your bookmark
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and just keep working all the way around
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so you can see i want to go all the way
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along this side
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get to the corner
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needle in lift the foot turn
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i'm going all the way along this side
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again
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all the way to the corner and then on
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the final side i need to be careful to
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make sure i leave a gap
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large enough to turn it out so i'll get
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to this corner
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and now i have to look where i sewed to
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and make sure i don't go too far and
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when i feel
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i've gone far enough i'll just reverse
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it
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and make sure nothing comes unraveled
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then lift your foot take your sewing out
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and just clip those threads however you
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choose
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and clip off the two threads from where
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you started
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and you've sewn around your bookmark but
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just left a gap on one side
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so before we think about turning it out
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and tidy up those corners
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if you clip the corners which means
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cutting off a triangle of fabric
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as close to stitching as you dare but do
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not cut your stitching or everything
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will go wrong
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it just gets rid of some of the bulk and
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it helps you to get nice corners when
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you turn it out
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so just clip round them all carefully
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like that
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get rid of those and now it's time to
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turn it out
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so i'm sure you've got your own
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techniques but just poke
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all the fabric in and through that hole
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you can feel a little bit bulky because
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remember you've quite a bit of
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interfacing in there
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don't worry just keep going keep
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pressing it through
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and you should start to see your
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bookmark appearing
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so i just push it all through
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get into those corners start to see the
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shape
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and look you can see a bookmark
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now i tend to find the best tool for
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getting your corners out
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it's a chopstick it's entirely up to you
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what you use some people use the back of
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the scissors
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but i always think that's a little bit
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risky because your scissors have a point
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but i find a chopstick's quite nice it's
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sharp enough while still having a blunt
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enough end not to poke through any seams
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or cut any fabric
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and just keep working those corners
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until you're happy with them
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that's always what matters in your
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sewing but you're happy
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so you can see i'm showing you here that
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some people will use the back of the
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scissors
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it's entirely up to you
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once you're happy with it it's going to
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be time
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to press it again so make sure we get a
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nice crisp
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bookmark so back to your ironing board
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or your ironing pad
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and we're going to press it now remember
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one side of this
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is not completely sewn just make sure
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those edges are folded in
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in line with the seam so that you get a
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nice straight edge
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and then you're simply going to press it
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all
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to get a nice finish
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it's all pressed
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it should look like a finished bookmark
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but obviously we haven't sewn up that
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side section yet
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so we're just going to top stitch all
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the way around
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and that's going to tidy it up make it
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look very nice
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and it's also going to close up the seam
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that you left the hole in so just work
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your way around
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in exactly the same way as you did
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before make sure you stay the same
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distance from the edge
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your markings on your sewing machine are
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great for that
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just decide where you're going it
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doesn't matter it's entirely up to you
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you can be as close to the edge as you
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like
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so long as you're consistent so work
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your way around
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turn at the corners in exactly the same
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way
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make sure you get the needle down
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lift the foot turn 90 degrees
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and off you go again with the foot back
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down
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if you have trouble at the corners
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because of all the bulk just take your
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time
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i'm not on a race here it's about
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getting a nice finish
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you may also choose to lengthen your
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stitch length to do top stitching it can
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sometimes look nicer with a longer top
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stitch and experiment with that on some
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fabric beforehand
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now you'll notice i'm cutting the
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threads off from where i started before
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i get back to them
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to make sure they don't get caught in
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and look a mess
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so now i'm just going to make sure i sew
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right up to
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where i started and slightly over the
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stitching
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to hold it in place and then i'll do a
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little reverse
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and that's it that'll just hold it to
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stop it unraveling
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no need to go mad you don't need to back
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over loads of it
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snip those ends off nice and tidy
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and you've got a bookmark now you'll
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notice my bookmarks quite large because
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i've made it bigger
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just so you can see what i'm doing um
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and you can see you've got the little
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bit there where your pages fit in
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what i have done in the past is made
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many of these but make them the actual
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size
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and there's some of them to show you a
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nice little bookmark
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you see little different designs
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different patterns
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you can make them to suit anybody or any
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occasion as you can see one of mine is a
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christmas bookmark
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so then once you've got your bookmark
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you can open up your book
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and you can slide it on pick one page
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pick a few pages it's entirely up to you
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slide it on where you're up to close
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your book
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and it'll just sit there and hold your
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page
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so thank you for watching i hope you've
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enjoyed it and i hope your fabric corner
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bookmarks work out well
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please subscribe below give me a thumbs
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up and leave me some comments and i look
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forward to seeing you again
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bye
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