DIY sewing helpers

Hy guys, sorry for being AWOL these days but Pinterest got me hooked. I found some good inspiration and some new things to do.

I found out that you can make your own tailor's ham and sausage, and I did mine. Here's for the road to professional sewing!!!!!!

A tailor's ham is used when pressing curved seams (ex. bust seam) and the tailor's sausage is for sliping into a sleeve to pres open the seam (at any point where your seam won't lay flat).

Here are mine and here is the tutorial if you want to make your own.

I filled these with wood chips that I use for my gerbil (lemon scented ones, good smell too :D ) and at the store I was like "1 kilo of this stuff is not gonna be enough....hmm... how about 4 kilos, and if I have some left I will surely found something else to stuff". That was a not so good idea...I still have left 3,5 kilos of wood chips and nothing else to stuff with them..... In the end I think the 1 kilo package was more than enough. So don't do the same mistake I did. Here's the proof.

And because I had some fabric scraps left I made some matching weights for when I cut my patterns.

I filled these with small gravel. And they are easy to make.

Here's to you on your road to a professional sewing!!!

Until next time, 

Love and kisses,