Upcycle cloth teabags- Tutu for flat doll
August 19, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under doll and dolls and dollmaking, eco projects & green projects & recycling craft
Yesterday, I posted about how I have been upcycling fabric teabags by making them into ribbon yarn and crocheting and weaving with them. Before that, I posted about how I made them into yo yo circles.
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Today, I’ll show how I upcycled a baker’s dozen (13) of the little fabric teabags into a tutu for my Fanciful Fiber Friend Flat Doll.
In the pic above, a slew of the fabric teabags are hanging in the studio window, drying. Alright, so it looks weird… but c’mon!
It’s a studio… you expect to see unusual things in the windows!
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After emptying the dryed
used up tea into the
compost,
the teabags are flattened.
For the waistband of
the tutu,
you need about
15 inches/ 38 cm of
1/2 inch/1 cm wide
ribbon, a needle and
thread, and scissors.
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Wrap the ribbon
around her waist
and tie a bow.
Make a dot on either side of the bow,
then untie it.
The space between the
2 dots will become the waistband
of the tutu.
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Leave a 6 inch/15 cm
tail, and then gather
the teabags onto a length of
thread.
Stitch in and out along the folded
edge of the teabag,
leaving the open edge
along the hem of the tutu.
Gather them up, squishing them
close together.
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Stitch the upper edge
of the gathered teabags
along one edge of the ribbon
between the 2 dots .
You’ll have to stitch
through the gathers and make
tiny stitches on the ribbon.
Anchor both ends.
I left the long end at the start
so I could thread that end in and stitch with it to finish the end off.
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Hide the thread ends inside the gathers.
Trim the ends, and the hem to even it up.
Tie the ribbon around her waist,
and
Voila!
you have an upcycled tutu
for your Fanciful Flat Fiber Friend Doll!
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