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Sewing: Cheap family gifts
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Cheap family gifts

Quilted baskets

Quilted baskets

Instructions

Made a pentagon template from a cereal box, cut five more pentagons from cereal boxes. Using contrasting material cut 12 fabric pentagons approximately quarter inch larger than the cardboard and 12 batting pentagons the same size as the cardboard. Place fabric face down layer with batting then card pentagon, fold edges and use tape or fabric glue to hold. Line up two pentagons together, cardboard ...
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Category: Sewing

Type of item: Functional

For: Home

Style: Funky


Materials

Scrap contrasting fabrics

What was your inspiration?

Needed inexpensive gifts for christmas and these are fuctional for virtually anything.

What are you most proud of?

Actually finishing them on time as only started two weeks before christmas and I hate hand sewing!

What advice would you give someone starting this project?

Persevere you will be proud of yourself and they look great.

 

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Shona on craftsy.com
Jan 03, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
I have just seen a mistake at the begining of insructions!!! Quite obviously you need twelve pentagon templates!
Lisa_Marie on craftsy.com
Jan 02, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
Love it! They look so pretty too!
shazdove on craftsy.com
Jan 02, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
What a great idea, might do something like this for Easter