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Top Tip: Reinforcing Pattern Markings

05/07/13

If you’ve got a pattern that you’ve used multiple times (we all have a favourite right?!), then you’ll know how battered those little pattern markings get after you’ve tailor tacked them a few times. Once they’ve been used a couple of times, those small holes can easily enlarge or tear and well, that’s just a pain in the rear! Here’s a handy way of making them more durable….

Simples!

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