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YOU WILL NEED
To make Hangers
dishtowels
wooden hangers
needle and
thread
poly-fil batting
assorted rickrack and piping
3⁄4 yard ribbon for
each hanger
To make Sachets
lightweight cotton fabric such as batiste
or broadcloth
rickrack
potpourri sachet
small ring, 1⁄2 inch diameter or
less
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Text by Jane Asper •
Produced by Kathy Curotto •
Photography by Borella & Company
HANGERS
1. Cut batting into strips 9 inches wide. Wrap each arm of the
hanger to four thicknesses. Baste the batting in place.
2. Click here for template. Cut four pieces of fabric, deciding first which direction to run
stripes or patterns. With fabric folded right sides out, cut two pairs of
pieces.
3. To apply piping or rickrack, machine baste on right sides of two
of the pieces along 1⁄2 inch seam allowance. If using rickrack, center stitching
line along center of rickrack. If using piping, stitch just to the inside of the
cording, making sure that the piping itself is towards the inside of the piece.
In either case, apply trim only around the two long, curved sides of the piece,
not across the short flat end, which will form the opening.
4. Lay one piece
that has trim attached over one that does not, right sides together. Turn pair
of pieces over so that the basting side is face up. Use the basting line as a
guide for your seam, sewing the seam just slightly inside (toward the center of
the piece) the basting line.
5. Clip seam at curved ends, turn right side
out. Remove any basting thread that is visible. Press.
6. Stuff a 2-inch ball
of batting into the end of each half of the hanger cover. Insert batting covered
hanger ends into covers, keeping seams straight along top and bottom of hanger.
Where the two sides of the cover meet, turn ends inside and slipstitch together
by hand.
7. Fold ribbon in half and place around neck of hanger with ends
hanging in front. Pull ribbon around to the back of the hanger and to the top.
Tie bow in front. Trim ends.
SACHETS
An embroidered hanging sachet makes a fragrant ornament for a holiday
hanger. 1. To make the sachet as shown, first download the image from
husqvarnaviking.com and embroider on fabric, either by hand or
machine.
2. Center motif, cut to a 4 by 4-inch piece of fabric.
3. Cut
two pieces of fabric both 3 by 4 inches.
4. Fold and press a 1⁄4-inch hem on
one 4-inch side of both pieces of fabric.
5. Machine stitch hems.
6.
Baste rickrack around perimeter of embroidered square, 1⁄4 inch from edge.
7.
Right sides together, pin the two 3 by 4-inch pieces onto 4-inch piece,
overlapping stitched sides.
8. Machine stitch seam all around over basting
line.
9. Turn right side out and press.
10. Slip stitch small ring in
center on back with top of ring just below top.
11. Insert sachet inside
cover.
12. Slip ribbon used in making padded hanger through ring on top of
sachet, then tie in bow around neck of hanger.
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