I barely managed to finish my first floss tag this morning. I stitched a corner of a free design called 9 carrés from anne-les-petites-croix over one on some little scraps of fabric that I had laying around. The whole thing is small, only 1.5 inches square. The finishing was doomed from the start when I went to fuse on the interfacing and found a hot spot on my “gunky” iron (an older iron that I only use for messy jobs like fusing interfacing) which melted the interfacing and horribly scorched the fabric. So, I had to run downstairs and quickly stitch up another little kitty (I skipped the border) so I could continue with my floss tag. Inserting the eyelet was another disaster. Because the piece is so tiny, I had to go through the mitred corners, so I was trying to go through double the fabric, plus interfacing on both sides and a layer of batting in between. Despite the fact that I learned from Karen V.’s experience not to use papercraft eyelets, my fabric eyelets still didn’t cut it to get through all of that. So, I ended up with a hole through the whole wad, with no eyelet to get through it all. I took it apart, put an eyelet through each side, sewed it back together and then put a ring through the two eyelets. Not optimal, but it worked. Hopefully, my next attempt will be better. Because it will be bigger. 🙂
It’s so cute! I had a similar problem with the first one I made, because I was working too close to the border, so I had too many layers to get through. You had a clever idea for rescuing it though1
Oh dear, what a disaster! What a trooper to carry on and find a way to salvage it!
That is so cute!!
I love that little cat!
It looks really good to me.
Too cute! Great job.
Oh too cool!
Hey GF: Well … I have the eyelet thingie do & eyelest & book rings …. however, have not ONE small stitched thing to try these floss tags. LOL ENjoy the day
That’s cute!
Cute! I’ve been so wanting to try my hand at one of these.