Car Seat Neck Pads

Phee Fabrics is finding ways to use up your Art Gallery scraps. This blog is focusing on Car Seat Neck Pads! Plus you have a chance to win a Scrap Pack!

Over time the neck pads are on the car seat have become dingy plus they’re boring. So why not redo them? These only cushion the straps against the collarbone and do not reduce the safety of the car seat. These are the same size and thickness of the original ones.

SUPPLIES LIST

4 cuts of woven fabric measuring 7″ x 5.5″
4 cuts of bra foam measuring 7″ x 5.5″
A Leather or Microtex needle
Sewing Machine
Thread
Two 3″ cuts of hook and loop tape aka velcro

Instructions

Stack 2 pieces of woven fabrics, right sides together, on top of 2 layers of cut foam
Pin or clip pieces together
Using a 1/2″ seam allowance, stitch around all 4 layers. Important: Leave a small opening for flipping.
Clip your corners to reduce the bulk

Flip your woven pieces so the wrong sides are together with the foam sandwiched in the middle
Push out your corners. I used a wooden skewer
Press (Not necessary but I iron every single thing while I am sewing)
Topstitch around the entire rectangle using 1/8″ seam allowance

Measure 3/4″ from each short side and sew on the velcro. One side for the hook and one side for the loops.

Easy breezy lemon squeezy. New car seat strap pads!

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Happy Sewing

Melissa

July 12, 2020August 18, 2022 by Phee Fabrics Categories: Art Gallery, Fabric Types, Scrap Busting, WovensTags: agf, car seat, cotton woven, foam, Scrap Busting Leave a comment

Fabric Mask Comparison

Phee Fabrics is finding ways to use up your Art Gallery scraps. This blog is focusing on Masks! Since March there have been so many companies that have released mask patterns. Different sizes and styles are overwhelming and we are going to try to narrow down the options to some of our favorites. If you want to read more about the reason we choose AGF for masks

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SUPPLIES LIST

Scrap of woven fabric about 1/4 yard
Scrap of Rayon Spandex, minimum 15″ x 4″ or elastic
A Serger or Sewing Machine. Depending on chosen pattern
Thread

Free Patterns

DIBY Fitted Face Mask. The pattern has sizes child through adult large
Eunoia has a template for a fitted mask that is used to be worn over a N95 mask but does require elastic.
Sweet Red Poppy has fitted, pleated and 3D mask patterns. The patterns are child through adult sizes for both versions but do require nose/ floral wire and without rounded or siliconed tips they will wear through the mask over a period of washing and wearing. Uses ties or elastic.
Twig + Tale has fitted and pleated mask versions. Ties or elastic. Sizing for children and adults
Deconess has a pleated mask pattern that can be made with ties or elastic and only has one size for child and one for adult
CDC has a pleated mask pattern with ties or elastic.
Olson has a fitted mask pattern that can use elastic, hair ties or fabric ties
Elderberry Blossoms has child through adult sizes. Some designs are made for knit but we love the woven ones.
FreeSewing.org has a fitted mask pattern. Seam allowances are not included so adding them to the templates can expand the sizes from child to adult large.
See Kate Sew has fitted, pleated and 3D mask patterns. The patterns are child through adult sizes for both versions but do require nose/ floral wire and without rounded or siliconed tips they will wear through the mask over a period of washing and wearing. Uses ties or elastic. Also, there seems to be a size difference when you download the pattern from the blog and when you download it from their Facebook group files. For the accurate size, join the Facebook group and download it from the files. This has been the 3D pattern that I like the best. Join their FB Group.

Happy Sewing

Melissa

July 5, 2020August 18, 2022 by Phee Fabrics Categories: Fabric Types, Scrap BustingTags: Art Gallery, masks, woven fabrics Leave a comment

Key Fobs

Phee Fabrics is finding ways to use up your Art Gallery scraps. This blog is focusing on Key Fobs! Plus you have a chance to win a Scrap Pack!

SUPPLIES LIST

Scrap of woven fabric measuring 12″ x 2.5″
A Sewing Machine
Thread
Iron
12″ of 1″ wide Webbing
Fray Check
1″ Key Fob Hardware
Channellocks

KEY FOB KITS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH Phee Fabrics

Key Fob Kit

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut a scrap piece of fabric to 12″ length and 2.5″ wide
Cut a 1″ wide piece of webbing to 12″
Fold fabric into thirds slightly overlapping
Wrap fabric around webbing and fold one side slightly under
Top stitch around , connecting fabric to webbing with 1/8″ seam allowance
Fold fabric and webbing (attached ) in half lengthwise
Slide Hardware over the under finished folded pieces
Place a dish towel or scrap fleece over the hardware
Make sure the hardware is straight before pressing down with Channellock’s

We would love to see your scrap makes! Enter to win an Art Gallery Scrap Pack.

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Happy Sewing

Melissa

June 28, 2020August 18, 2022 by Phee Fabrics Categories: Scrap BustingTags: key fobs, Scrap Busting, woven fabrics Leave a comment

Scrunchies

Phee Fabrics is finding ways to use up your Art Gallery scraps. This blog is focusing on Scrunchies! Plus you have a chance to win a Scrap Pack!

SUPPLIES LIST

Scrap of woven fabric measuring 4″ x 24″
A Serger
Thread
Hair Ties

INSTRUCTIONS

Have fabric facing the wrong side

With the right sides together, serge the short ends to make a round around the hair tie

Start rolled hemming around the hair tie
- The serger setting used for the rolled hem are 5/6/7 R stitch( remember, a rolled hem only uses one serger needle) with a length of 1.5
- Rolled Hem Tutorial

We would love to see your scrap makes! Enter to win an Art Gallery Scrap Pack.

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Happy Sewing

Melissa

June 21, 2020August 18, 2022 by Phee Fabrics Categories: Scrap Busting Leave a comment

Scrap Busting Sunday’s

Beginning June 21st. Find a way to use your Phee scraps with a new idea and pattern featured every Sunday. Click on the image to read the blog.

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June 14, 2020August 18, 2022 by Phee Fabrics Categories: Fabric Types, Scrap BustingTags: hair ties, key fobs, masks, Scrap Busting, scrunchies, woven fabrics Leave a comment

Wide Mesh Bag with Drawstring

I grabbed some of Phee’s hot pink wide mesh specifically for some produce bags and I thought I would share with you a quick step-by-step!

Here’s a half yard of the wide mesh lace, some elastic cording (non-stretch would work too!) and drawstring toggles. Picking up these supplies gave me a chance to check out the back packing supplies at our local outfitters, Redding Sports, Ltd.

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What are you wanting to use the mesh bags for? They would be great for either produce while grocery shopping or even lingerie bags for washing your delicate pretties!

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I decided on a 10″ wide bag so after squaring up my fabric I ended up with a 20″ wide by 18-ish” long piece of mesh to work with.

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For the drawstring channel I used black twill tape and stitched it onto the wrong side of the mesh about 2″ down from the top edge. A straight stitch would be OK here since the tape has zero stretch but I opted for a zig-zag stitch to get a good catch on the mesh.

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Fold the top edge down over the twill tape and sew, forming the drawstring channel.

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The length of your drawstring will depend on what kind of cord you chose; I cut mine about 3″ on either edge of the bag to allow room for a knot and burn the ends (to prevent fraying).

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Burn, baby, burn … just enough to melt the ends. This can be stinky!

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Pretty neat that you can see the elastic strands in there, huh?

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A little trick to make your life easier: stick a rigid straw through the channeling …

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… then run the cording through the straw! Ta-dah!

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Go ahead and add your toggle now. I did mostly because I kept losing it on my sewing table and wanted to be done with it!

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Fold your mesh right sides together to form your bag!

I don’t really know what happened to this next photo AT ALL!

I sewed twill tape along the joining and the bottom edges but because I am not able to adjust the foot tension it wanted to shift a little. I just made sure to take my time and not let me lead foot take over! Folding over the tape and adding another seam really helped to make sure all of the mesh caught and to reinforce the edges.

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