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My husband and I have a running battle over dryer sheets. He likes them, I do not. However, after seeing this tutorial by Vanessa from V & Co. and Uptown Jane, I may have just had a change of heart. She uses used dryer sheets to help turn under the edges of a shape that’s being appliqued. Go to the tutorial.
[photo from V & Co.]
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I’ve done this. I have used dryer sheets to turn fabric hearts. I’ll make two fabric hearts using this technique. Then after turning them I put torn or cut up used dryer sheets into the little slit I made on the dryer sheet side to lightly stuff the hearts. Then I top stitch the two hearts together around the edges while the right sides are showing and add in a small lace loop or small yarn single crochet loop at the top center v of the hearts being sewn together. Then finish sewing all the way around. You can do this top stitching by machine or hand, which ever you perfer.
Now you have a stuffed heart that is light and can be hung on your bedroom wall in groupings of three, five or even seven. You can vary the sizes and fabric patterns of the hearts if you wish. You could also hang them on clothes hangers to add freshness to your closet. If you want them as clothes hanger closet freshners you might want to use a little unused dryer fabric sheets that have more scent left on them.
I have several little hearts hanging in a grouping in the blue bedroom of our home and I used leftover drape fabric and left over ruffle fabric and left over bedding fabrics to make them. I love to use up little bits of fabrics and left over dryer sheets for the turning.
I just thought, maybe if you stuffed the hearts pretty tight with cut up pieces of used dryer sheets then these little hearts or other shapes you might make, might make fairly good pin cushions. Just a thought.
thanks for the link up! 😉