Fabric Bookmark
Make a bookmark using hessian fabric, wool and a tapestry needle.
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Development of fine motor skills – threading a needle and sewing evenly spaced stitches in straight lines.
Balls of different coloured wool. Pre-cut hessian fabric strips, approx. 20cms x 8cms. Fabric scissors, plastic, child-friendly tapestry needles. Finished exemplars.
- Introduce the task. Issue the hessian. What it is hessian made from? (Hessian is a woven fabric – typically used for sacks and sandbags – made from the fibres of the sisal plant. Sisal is also used to make rope and twine. It is a coarse fabric. Feel the fabric and compare with your clothes.
- Thread the needle. Demonstrate and assist as necessary. It helps to wet and twist the end of the wool before passing through the eye of the needle. Sew with a doubled thread.
- Demonstrate sewing with 2cm stitches. Show how to check both sides for neatness and snagging.
4. Sew the first row. Leave a long ‘tail’ on both sides to make a tassle. Keep checking both sides for neatness. Sew a second row, changing the colour of the thread. Keep sewing until you have sewn 4 – 5 rows. The exemplar below illustrates the technique.
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