Finished size: 20 x 38cm
Gather your suppliesMakes 1 doorstop: 30 x 50cm quality cotton fabric; matching sewing thread; 30cm beaded wire; scrap brown felt; long silk scrap; 1kg rice
Here’s howFor each doorstop
STEP 1 Enlarge template, as directed, and cut out 3 fabric pear shapes and 2 felt leaf shapes.
STEP 2 Leaving a gap at bottom for filling and with right sides facing, stitch together the 3 pear shapes with a 5mm seam. Snip into seams at 1cm intervals and turn through.
STEP 3 Using a funnel, fill the shape with rice and neatly slipstitch the opening closed.
STEP 4 Sandwich end of a 10cm length of beaded wire between the felt leaves, then glue them together. For stem, wrap silk along two-thirds of length of 10cm-long wire; tie to secure.
STEP 5 Poke wire ends of stem and leaf into top of pear, then bend stem and leaf as desired
7 Comments
I finally found the template! It's in the April 2009 edition of BH&G Magazine. Went back today through all the ones I had saved & so thankful to have found it - been wanting to make these doorstops for ages!
ReplyI have seen the doorstopper. I am more of a knitter, but I am going to give the Door-stopper a go. Which me luck
ReplyI have seen the doorstopper. I am more of a knitter, but I am going to give the Door-stopper a go. Which me luck
ReplyHow about drawing your own pattern ... I found a picture in a colouring in book
Replyit look like a great one
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