This was one of those projects that always kept getting put off because the pattern weights (washers) worked fine as is. Also I wasn’t really sure how I wanted to cover them. I was thinking of maybe sandwiching between quilted cotton with a blanket stitch border but it didn’t really appeal to me as a project. Not sure where I got the ribbon idea from, but after I settled on this approach and bought the ribbon, I got hung-up on how I would secure the ends. I didn’t want to use glue or anything that would feel hard or stiff and I didn’t want to sew it but I also didn’t want it to fray.

In the end, I brought them along with me on a trip on Albany, thinking that my mum would be able to come up with an idea, but while trying to demonstrate how the beginning of the ribbon would need to be secured underneath the wrapping otherwise it would be awkward, I stumbled across the approach of just knotting it on the side. The upside of this is it leaves cute little tails. I’m not sure if they will be annoying to work around, but because of the height of the washer the knot doesn’t impact on the washer sitting flat.

My mum and I both worked on wrapping the washers (with an attempt by my lil bro in the highlight where he used up the scraps from when my mum trimmed the ribbon ends of the finished ones) and we had different methodologies which you can’t really tell from the finished product. I decided to document my method because I imagine at some point I’ll either need to replace the existing ribbon or wrap new washers and by the time that comes I would have forgotten what I did LOL. The main thing is getting the direction of the loop correct so the long tail can be wrapped around the back to cover the uncovered part of the washer.

I have less of the smaller ones because I double-stacked them. I don’t use these often so I think I can probably get away with only having 6.

I’m pretty happy with this method because it only requires scissors (and the washer/ribbon) 😁 I just don’t really like glue much and sewing ribbon ends sounds very not fun. The washers look nice as well and the ribbon feels nice. I’ll probably have to trim the ribbon ends a bit more but I’ve used them once so far and it hasn’t really been a problem.

Categories: Sewing

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