These beautiful Bohin pins with Murano glass heads are available here or here. They are really pretty and it's inspiring to have some lovely sewing notions. Take good care of them and they'll last for years and years.
As a bonus, or maybe it's a needed feature for you, the glass heads won't melt if you touch them with your iron. I have a collection of melted plastic pins that tell me I do this more than I realize.
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This pretty cotton lawn called Petal is from Robert Kaufman's London Calling 9 collection and I'm excited to have it in my stash. So far I've made some hair ties with it and they turned out lovely:
These hair ties are strips of 1.5" wide fabric folded into 4ths. I make them in various lengths for covering hair elastics--shorter ones for a half ponytail, medium ones for a ponytail, and longer ones to wrap around a messy bun. I like the way they look in my hair and it's nice to be able to use some of my pretty lawns to make pretty things. The hair ties also let me tie up my hair a little tighter if the elastic is too loose.
Folding and pressing a 1.5" wide piece of this fine fabric is challenge! But I like the skinny 3/8" width and with some practice while making masks, I've found a way to make it happen while minimizing the steam burns to my fingers.
What works for me is to press the strip of fabric in half, leave it sit for a while so the center crease gets firmly set in place, and then come back later and press the edges to the center.
The trick is to pin the quarter fold being pressed to the center to the ironing board with one of these long pins from Dritz. These are glass head pins so the head won't melt if the iron gets too close. They are also very beautiful with the light shining through their ethereal glass heads.
P.S. If you have this fabric, or plan to get it, this thread is a great match.
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Right now I've got a number of different sewing projects going, and it kind of feels like it's going to be a while before most of them are done.
Whenever there are a lot of projects happening at once, I try to squeeze in making something that is either super easy or super fast, or better yet both. It does wonders to keep my sewing motivation up if I can get at least one project --no matter how small--done now and then.
So today I stitched up a couple of these Cord Keepers as my almost instant gratification sewing project. The pattern for these can be found here or here.
This was my first time using this fabric, which is a print from the Helen's Meadow collection by Helen Dardik for Clothworks.
Helen't Meadow is from a few years back so these days it's getting challenging to find some of the prints in the collection.
If you are interested in adding some of this to your stash, the pink version of this print is available in a few online shops (try here or here).
Yardage of the blue version is more elusive. If a small piece will do, there are two fat eighths available here in my shop. Of course, if you know where to find it BTY online, drop a link in the comments.
BTW, BTY = by the yard (and BTW = by the way). A sewing acronyms blog post really should happen sometime soon. If you look at sewing stuff online frequently, you pick up the meaning of these over time, but you don't know until you know.
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Did you know there are a number of new and restocked notions in the sewing notions section of my etsy shop?
Since getting to the store is not possible/practical/recommended these days, many of these are selling pretty quickly. Which is both lovely (thank you, I appreciate your business!) and also makes it challenging to keep up with tracking inventory in both my etsy shop and my website, so for now most are only on etsy.
There are a few different colors of thread. More off-white Gutermann thread is also coming later in the week. A number of different Schmetz chrome machine needles are also available. I've only started using these chrome needles myself and the Microtex ones are amazingly sharp.
This is the second style of awl I'm carrying now. This tapered one is awesome for opening packages! At least that's mostly what I've been using mine for so far. Surely I'll find other ways to use it eventually.
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Look what came in the mail the other day--pink snaps! These are from Snap Source and are the size 24 ones. These are my favorite snaps and pretty much the only ones I use when I need a snap.
This ready-to-ship Cord Keeper can be found in my etsy shop here. The sewing pattern to make your own fabric cord keepers is available here or here on etsy. Info about this fabric is in this blog post and more info about snaps can be found here.
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