Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Use weights while working with fabrics

Are you familiar with a situation where you try to keep a fabric flat on a table or make a template from brown paper and they just roll up and move nonstop? You pin it down to the table, and that doesn't help. The pins just leave big holes in the paper or pull the fabric. Yes, that is very annoying.
My sewers came up with a very clever solution; they make small 4"x6" bags out of scraps pulled from a trash can (the trash cans are very clean in our workroom) and fill them with pennies. They are pretty and easy to make. On top of that, it's recycling scraps that otherwise go waste. What can be better than that?