1) Cut two 6.5" x 3.5" rectangles of fabric, an outside fabric and an inside fabric. Sew around 3 sides, right sides together, leaving one 6.5" side open. The open side will be the top of the bookmark, if you need to keep that in mind when using directional or fussy cut fabric.
The flowers are my outside fabric and the bluish purple is my inside fabric. |
2. Cut one 6.5" x 3.5" rectangle of fusible (I used Pellon Wonder Under), and fuse to one side of the 3-sides-sewn rectangle. Remove the paper backing of the fusible.
Hard to get a meaningful photo for this step... |
3. Clip the 2 corners that are sewn on both sides close to the seam to reduce bulk and turn the rectangles right-side-out. Align as best you can before pressing to fuse the two fabrics together.
4. Fold the two 3.5" sides together until they meet with the outside fabric on the inside. Sew the raw, unsewn edges of the top of the rectangle together, backstitching at the beginning and end to stabilize.
A mini iron would come in mighty hand right about now! |
5 comments:
Thanks for the tutorial, Erin! Hope to make one(?) at the weekend!
What a great tutorial Erin! You do awesome and amazing projects. Keep it up!
Duly bookmarked ! (Excuse the pun)
Im going to give this a go when I have a spare moment.
Thanks for showing us how it's done.
Thanks, Erin, for writing up the tutorial. A person can never have too many bookmarks. I will be making a few later this evening.
Linda in Southern Illinois
I am going to comment on several things in one spot.
Thanks for showing us how you made these bookmarks...I have bookmarked it!!
I loved your Mike Buxton story. It was beautiful.
I have so many jeans of my own here. I am looking forward to seeing what your quilt looks like. Most everything you do is...so darn cute.
I have recently benefited from your generosity...so I won't worry about being in the give-away. But the name...both were good. Hard to pick which, but because it is for the skateboarder, I would go with Skaters Dream!
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