My friend J gave me a book of small printed cotton fabric samples. Some of the prints are especially pretty. But what to do with these? Well, I picked up a neat idea from the Tips section of one of my favourite websites, www.sewing.patternreview.com. A reader suggested making fabric weights by stuffing pieces of fabric with coins.
Since I have a million pennies, I counted out batches of 50 and sewed them into the fabric samples. The stitching is a bit wonky on some of them, but the pennies are tricky to maneuver.
I've seen those yellow coated metal fabric weights that cost close to $20 and you don't get very many of them in a package. These cost me 50 cents each as the fabric was free.
I still have lots of the samples left and will be using them to make some cloth dolls. I will share more about the dolls in a future post.
2 comments:
What are the weights for? They look like fun.
Little pieces of fabric are good for quilting...just saying...
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Hello Creative Hands. These weights hold your pattern in place so you no longer have to pin tissue to fabric. A much better method in my experience. Now that I think about it, I probably should have referred to these as "pattern" and not "fabric" weights.
I decided against using these in a quilting project because the samples are a light, crisp shirting from the 70s, not anything like the soft quilting cotton you find today.
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