I have fabric scraps coming out my ears, and I don’t like throwing them away. I think I have three tubs of unusable fabric scraps. Unusable as in less than one square inch of fabric pieces. I actually started sewing one inch blocks together, but I soon learned I was not a precise enough seamstress to sew one inch blocks together. They looked a bit more like wonky rectangles.
Anyway. These homemade cards are my most recent attempts at using up my fabric scraps. I made some homemade fabric cards a couple weeks ago, and I made another one this week for a housewarming gift for some good friends.
These are easy peasy cards to make. I did these with a standard presser foot. If I start getting more creative with curves, I may eventually switch over to a free motion quilting foot or darning foot.
There are perfect for a beginner seamstress, and inadequacies just give this project more character. 🙂
1. Start by cutting a piece of card stock in half.
2. Cut a square for the bottom half of the house, a triangle for the roof, and a small rectangle for the door. Don’t think too hard about this, and don’t worry about them being perfect.
3. Take the square and sew it to the card stock. I lined mine up with the bottom of the card stock, but I chose not to center it since I was going to stamp a greeting. I used approximately an eighth of an inch seam allowance while attaching this square to the card stock. At every corner, I stopped sewing, left the needle down, raised the presser foot, rotated the card, and then kept going to the next corner.
I back stitched a few times to secure my stitch after sewing around the entire perimeter.
This is what your card should look like when you are done sewing on the square for the house.
4. Sew on your triangle for the roof and the rectangle for the front door.
5. Finally I used my favorite stamps to spell out ‘home’ on the front of the card.
I will soon be using this card and a small gift to bless a family we love dearly. They recently purchased a new home, and we want them to know we are excited for them!
