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Art & Crafts

Give a listen to Kay and Ann of Mason-Dixon Knitting, as they perform on the Nashville Bandwagon Show with a side-splitting-funny country song: “Pardon Me (I Didn’t Knit that For You).”

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It’s easy to create a professional-looking torn-edge effect to use when you’re scrapbooking or making greeting cards, gift tags, or other torn paper crafts — even some amazing art:

Start with a fairly good quality paper — off-white is great for gift tags when layered over a patterned or dark-coloured piece of paper.
Set it in [...]

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If you’ve seen a zig-zag quilt, you’ll immediately see the fascination. It looks like giant bands of rick-rack trim sewn into a quilt — but really, the zig-zag effect is achieved with a series of triangles and a trick of the eye.
Now, you might look at a zig-zag quilt and figure it’s pretty straightforward [...]

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