I almost forgot

In my post last week about the new American Quilt Retailer FREE-to-use pattern, there was something I forgot to mention. As I’m designing each pattern, I always have all these ideas on ways you can use the pattern to promote sales and I try to keep good notes, but this idea got left off somewhere. If you’re going to work with the pattern “Woven as One,” the Simplicity Bias Tape Maker is something you can use and sell. It will easily fold and press pre-cut strips and Mimi Shimp from Simplicity confirmed the Simplicity Bias Tape Maker will work with strips that are not cut on the bias. You may need to use a different width strip, but the concept of weaving folded strips still works. Then yesterday, Linda Griepentrog, our freelance “Snippets” columnist, suggested using the various sizes of Clover’s Bias Tape Maker to press and fold the strips. And — if you use Clover’s Fusible Bias Tape Maker the task might even be easier! All these tools can make great add-on sales items to go along with this issue’s pattern. Have fun! — Susan