Tutorial: How to sew your own fabric hair rollers.
June 06, 2011 | Ellisha | Comments 0
Step-by-step tutorial on how to sew your own fabric hair rollers by Life with Monkey.
Materials needed for one curler:
a scrap of cotton fabric, at least 4″ X 9″ in size
a small amount of stuffing the curler (i use polyester)
a button
some thread
tools:
a sewing machine, preferably with a zipper foot attachment
a hand-sewing needle
scissors
Creation time:
around 10 minutes at intermediate skill level
Instructions:
- First, cut a 4″ X 9″ rectangle from a piece of scrap fabric.
- Fold it in half lengthwise, right sides together. sew 4″ along long edge using 1/4″ seam.
- Fold the small end together (the end where you started your stitching).
- Sew across the end. [alternately, you could hand-sew this end instead, using a running stitch and gathering it by pulling up on the thread]
- Turn right side out and stuff up to the top of that initial 4″ seam.
- Once it’s stuffed, sew opening closed as close to the 4″ mark as possible.
- Using the tail-end of the thread, sew a running stitch over the previous stitches and gather. [alternately, this opening could be sewn shut and gathered by hand]
- Fold the other short edge over 1/4″, then fold a long side over about an inch.
- Fold the remaining long edge over, turning its edge under 1/4″ as well.
- Sew over the last edge you turned over, then along the short edge, then back down the other side.
- Sew a buttonhole on the end. i like a buttonhole going the length of the curler.
- Cut open the buttonhole
- Sew a button to the end of the stuffed portion.
- Voila! a curler!
Source: Life with Monkey
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