Re: A Piece of Paper

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>    What piece of paper (no printed patterns,you silly thing!) have you
> used as an impromptu pattern, and what did you create?
>                             Cea


Great thread!
I'm always ditzing around with paper to make one sort of pattern or another.
The last thing I did was a toilet seat cover. The new toilets have these
over large sort of elongated seat lids that 1: are hard to find covers for,
and 2: are TOO expensive when you do.  I used a piece of old wrapping paper
to make a pattern of the lid and then used a rug that matched my others,
traced the shape on the back and serged it with elastic, snap! a matching
lid cover for less than 1/3 of what I would have had to pay.

I've made my shopping bags too, and my store gives me a nickel for each of
my bags used. When I get home I flip the appropriate number of nickels in a
jar.....saving for an around the world cruise ;)  The one thing I did to
make the bag easier for the checkers to load was cut a piece of heavy
cardboard (from a TV shipping carton) for each bag, in a square (rectangle?)
to fit in the bottom and then cover those with what was left of an old oil
cloth table cover. I just wrapped them like a tidy package and duct taped
the backs. Slip it down to sit flat in the bottom. This not only makes them
easier to fill they also sit better on the way home and you can just pull it
out and wipe it off when you wash the bags.

Val