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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350473 | Method and grid for tying layers of a quilt The present invention simplifies the process of placing quilt ties in the quilt during the quilt making process. The quilt tie device contains a plurality of openings that identify locations in the quilt for quilt ties. A quilt maker places the quilt tie device over... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7226290 | Portable aesthetic component comparison system, decorator design tool, retaining stud, and method A portable aesthetic component comparison system is provided with a support base, a work surface, a post, and a plurality of carriers. The work surface is provided on the support base. The post is supported by the support base centrally of the work surface. The plur... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225645 | Method of making a single crocheted work-piece with an incorporated meandering pattern A method of planning and fabricating a single crocheted work-piece that incorporates a meandering pattern. A special grid is constructed, the pattern placed in the grid, and the stitch combinations noted on the pattern line forming a “map”. This map of the work-... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7147009 | Method for hands only weaving A process for weaving that can be implemented using just the hands as the loom and shuttle, a weaving material such as yarn, an instrument for cutting like nail clippers or a small pair of scissors, and an object for intermissions in the process such as a paper clip... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7065987 | Hand crafted afghan incorporating personalized or commemorative indicia and method of fabricating same Disclosed herein is an afghan incorporating personalized or commemorative indicia and a method for constructing the afghan. The individual pieces of the afghan incorporate the characters and symbols of the indicia at the point of fabrication so that the afghan is co... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7041182 | Method of producing a decorative plate A method of producing a decorative plate includes affixing a plurality of pieces (segments) for forming a decorative image to a predetermined position of a base plate on which a base design is depicted. Specifically, the method includes providing marks (or signs) on... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7025519 | Unique writing instrument A unique writing instrument. The writing instrument comprises a barrel, which has an initial first layer of an adhesive onto which solid beads are adhered, said beads forming a textured grip facilitating a user in holding the article. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6705867 | Three-dimensional needlepoint canvas The present invention relates to closed three-dimensional needlepoint canvases. Each of the canvases of the present invention is made from two interconnectable perforated shells. In various embodiments, interchangeable shells of different shapes are provided which c... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6413091 | Creative stitchery success strips A set often embroidery stitch pattern transfer marking strips each constructed of flat, bendable, clear see-through plastic with resiliency assuring its continued integrity, rectangular in shape, the size of which fits in the hand having there-on two diff... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6146144 | Rug hooking kit and method for handicapped A kit for making a hooked rug comprised of a backing made of a flexible yet stable material with offset, intermittent holes, a hook with a handle, embroidery needle, yarn, diagrams and written instructions, all of which are packed in a bag or box. The inv... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5738559 | Personalized needleless puppet blank kit The personalized needleless puppet kit includes at least two puppet blanks which are joined together using a yarn lace having a collared lead end for ease in threading of the lace through cooperating holes in the blanks, without requiring use of a needle.... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5634996 | Method for adhering studs to cloth The method of adhering studs to the cloth includes the step of providing a plurality of flat, aluminum studs having predetermined shapes. The backside surface of each stud is covered with a low temperature, heat sensitive adhesive. Also, a predetermined s... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5447770 | Kit and method for making decorative articles A kit for making a decorative article includes a fabric backing having a grid thereon. The grid is sized in predetermined segments to facilitate making a decorative article therefrom. A plurality of differently colored yarn segments and a liquid adhesive ... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5399410 | Sheet for embroidered picture A sheet for embroidered picture includes a sheet-like base 1 made of paper such as synthetic paper or thick paper. Perforations 0.4-1.5 mm in inside hole diameter are formed in matrix form at least a part of the sheet-like base 1. From the sheet-like base... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5352120 | Process for applying beads to a substrate Decorative beads are applied to a selected substrate, such as an article of clothing, in a pre-determined arrangement, utilizing a rod-like skewer and a folding chart or guide having a mirror image of the predetermined pattern printed thereon. The process... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5263862 | Method of making a needlework graph This invention provides a graphing system that enables an average person interested in reproducing a colored design by needlework, for which there is no existing graph, to quickly and easily graph the colored design for reproduction by such needlework as ... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5234340 | Handicraft guide A handicraft guide is provided for locating in a specific array a plurality of members such as sequins, on a surface such as a layer of fabric. A thin sheet material has inscribed thereon a pattern which is to be reproduced as a design on the mounting sur... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5184957 | Needlepoint graph A needlepoint graph has adjoining rows of ellipses to be marked as a pattern for the designation of traditional continental needlepoint stitches required in a needlepoint canvas to reproduce the pattern on the graph.... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5096422 | Handicraft guide A handicraft guide for locating a plurality of members on a surface, such as a layer of fabric, which utilizes a sheet material upon which has been inscribed a pattern to be reproduced as a design on the mounting surface. This mirror image pattern is made... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5037302 | Educational toy with a repairable defect for teaching humanistic values to a child An educational device for teaching humanistic values to a child is in the form of a toy manufactured with at least one recognizable abused condition or defect. The toy is packaged and marketed with repair apparatus enabling a child to permanently substant... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5024176 | Needlepoint sheet having octagonal openings and method of use thereof Needlepoint sheet having channel perforations with octagonal upper and lower openings. Thread drawn through a channel in a diagonal direction is pulled over a flat surface which widens the area covered by the thread. The needlepoint sheet is made of a pol... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4949286 | Dress design forming apparatus A method and apparatus for interactively generating and visually displaying deformed, free curved surfaces for use in dress designing using a computer aided display apparatus by forming plane pattern electronic data representative of a cloth pattern on a ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4836783 | Activity kit An activity kit for drawing, painting, sewing or the like, comprising a rigid case providing a flat activity surface and a cavity within the case for receiving a roll of medium, such as paper on which the activity is to be carried out. Medium from the rol... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4792305 | Collimated knitting pattern instruction panel A collimated knitting pattern instruction panel for instructing a user in the creation of knitwear having patterns thereon which are formed into columns. The knitwear consists of a plurality of rows of yarn each of which having at least two groups of stit... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4657800 | Mural type hanging and method of making same A method and article of manufacture directed to a mural like device which is formed on a blank or sheet of flexible fabric type material by the forming in the surface thereof a pattern to define predetermined form. Strands of yarn material formed in close... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4634616 | Stencil art overlays A method and materials for sewing craft sheets of plastic canvas is disclosed wherein an adhesive backed transparent film sheet having a grid pattern thereon color coded to form a picture is affixed to a plastic canvas having a grid pattern the same size ... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4608939 | Quilting or sewing guide A pattern or template for achieving controlled hand sewing. The pattern or template (10) is fabricated using two complementary template units (12, 14) that can be superimposed upon each other to enclose a fabric (40) therebetween. Releasable attaching mea... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4578036 | Method of instructions for knitting and crocheting A method for instructions for knitting and crocheting in which the location, type, and number of each stitch is exactly indicated on a pattern piece scaled to the final shape of the finished item.... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4564406 | Method of and means for combination design transfer and application of heat reactivatable adhesive A method of providing for combination applique design pattern transfer and adhesive lamination to applique material which comprises imprinting an applique design pattern onto a sheet of heat reactivatable adhesive so that by fusing and laminating the adhe... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4541805 | Audio adapter for sewing machine An audio adapter for an electric or electronic sewing machine is disclosed. The adapter may have a holder sized to accept a typical DC powered microcassette tape player, an AC-DC power converter and leads for attachment to the on-off switch of the sewing ... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4530665 | Method for stitching pattern A method of stitching a pattern on fabric employing a piece of interwoven netting having rows of square holes and the desired pattern printed thereon. The netting is attached to the fabric so that the pattern on the netting directly overlies the area on t... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4521474 | Carrier and method for providing yarn for latch hook rug kits and the like A carrier for holding pieces of yarn ready for use in making rugs and similar articles by hand comprises a perforated flexible sheet of pliable material such as strong paper. The ends of individual pieces of yarn of predetermined length extend through the... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4496510 | Activity toy An activity toy with which a child may create needle craft like textured designs using plastic or amorphous solid substances. In order to simulate the strands or nubs that create the textured design in neddle crafts a stand supported on a surface holds a ... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4495230 | Needlework art form A thin foraminous substrate such as a woven fabric substrate, has imprinted thereon a design to accept needlework. A dominant portion of the imprinted design on the substrate is adapted to register with a three dimensional decorative applique, for example... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4404750 | Needlepoint sheet A needlepoint sheet of flexible plastic material having a plurality of aligned rows of perforations for receiving thread-like material such as yarn therethrough. The sheet has at least one flat face which has pattern indicia imprinted directly on the flat... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4391591 | Combined pattern holder and pattern position indicator A device is shown in the preferred embodiment of the present invention for holding a knitting pattern and for indicating the pattern position. The pattern is held to a pattern support face of a pattern support member by a clip member. The pattern position... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4372238 | Toy stitching set A stitching grid is formed from a rigid lattice plate having spaced perforations extending therethrough surrounded by lands. A design of one or more colors is imprinted on the lands. Colored yarn is stitched through the perforations with the color of the ... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4355722 | Yarn coloring picture set and method of coloring A yarn coloring picture set for coloring a picture by applying colored yarn thereto. In a method for practicing the invention, a board is provided covered by an adhesive layer. A cover sheet protectively overlaps the adhesive layer. A picture is die-cut t... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4310313 | Kit for needlepoint work This invention pertains to a needleworking kit designed to facilitate the work of completing a needlepoint design created on a canvas, using buttonhole stitches and which includes a graph marked in colors to indicate where such stitches will be made on th... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4301753 | Sewing machine with tape recorder for user instruction and memory programming A sewing machine includes a housing with an upper arm portion, a standard and a cloth holder arm and a sound player such as a transcriber recorder associated with the sewing machine with a sound producing device for explaining the operation thereof. The d... | 11/24/1981 |
