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Fabric Book Weight
When reading on the beach or following a recipe in a cookbook, a sand-filled fabric weight enables
you to keep the book open to the right page without damaging its spine. Also ideal for magazines
or for weighing down papers, this handy tool makes a wonderful gift that you can customize with
any fabric or wide ribbon you chose.
Materials:
- 1/2 yard grosgrain ribbon - 3 3/4-inch-wide (or other wide ribbon or fabric)
- Fusible interfacing
- Bone folder
- Scissors
- Pins, needle and thread
- Sand
Instructions:
- Cut two 9-inch lengths of ribbon; cut two pieces of fusible interfacing to the same dimensions.
Lay one piece of interfacing on top of one of the ribbon1s wrong sides; carefully iron in
place. (This reinforcing layer will ensure that the sand doesn1t leak out of the weight.)
Repeat with remaining interfacing and ribbon.
- Pin the two pieces right sides together, and machine-sew, leaving a 1/2-inch seam allowance
and a 1 1/2-inch opening on one of the short sides. Trim any excess fabric around the seam,
and turn right side out, using a bone folder to turn out the corners; press. With a paper
funnel, fill the weight with about 3/4 cup of sand, and slip-stitch the opening closed. (Makes
one 8 1/2 x 3 3/4-inch weight.)
MarthaStewart.com. www.marthastewart.com. Viewed on April 2, 2001.
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