Already a member? Click here to Login
This duo by Sandra Hamilton is sure to make doing the washing far more fun!The pretty embroidery on the sign makes it a perfect decoration for your laundry space or utility room. The peg bag is inspired by a traditional kimono and with a wooden coat hanger inside, makes a sturdy housework companion.
Create a laundry room sign
Cut out two 10cm x 40cm and two 10cm x 50cm strips of floral print fabric to frame the embroidery.Trim 23cm x 31cm of white ticking. Download the templates and print. Iron fusible webbing to the back of small pieces of stripe and floral fabric and use the templates to cut out the kimono pieces.
Use an air-erasable pen to trace the text, flowers and washing line onto the ticking. Select three strands of embroidery thread, each a different shade of blue, then stem stitch ‘Laundry Room’, and the clothesline. Using two strands of red and one pink, stem stitch ‘Help Wanted’. Embroider the centres of the flowers in red and stem stitch the petals using pink and coral. Stem stitch the sun in yellow and gold.
Place the kimono pieces on the clothesline and iron to fix. Blanket, or machine sew using buttonhole stitch all around the kimonos. Use red thread down the front edges to highlight the cross over style.
With right sides facing, leaving 1cm unattached at each end, sew the strips of floral fabric to the sides of the ticking with a 1cm
Sign in with Facebook
Sign in with Google
