The last few weeks have been difficult ones in my world and while I want to sew my brain is not engaging well enough to produce vaguely decent results. After a very unsuccessful attempt at a BHL Zeena dress, I realised that I needed something a bit less demanding to fulfil my distraction attempts. So I turned to pinterest which as ever provided the answer, in the shape of this pattern weight tutorial from Tea Rose Home.
The is a free PDF which consists of a triangle which can be used alone as template to create the mini weights (and they are very mini, each side only measures 4cm) or 4 triangles can be cut out to create the larger weights.
The instructions are really easy to follow and they come together pretty quickly. I made all of these in a couple of hours. They're filled with brown basmati rice, because I had a bag in the cupboard and can never be bothered to cook it as it takes forever.
One thing I would say is that you should use a fairly stiff fabric for these, like a cotton. I used a slightly drapier fabric to make one of the mini weights and it was a pain to sew and doesn't hold the shape as well.
The ones with the pencils on are my favourite, this is a gorgeous liberty poplin from their latest collection. Most of this fabric has been cut out to make myself a birthday dress but I'm a bit nervous about sewing it at the moment in case I screw it up and at £32.50 a metre, it's the most expensive fabric I've ever bought and I would be really gutted to make a mistake.
I have a sense of satisfaction from making these, maybe I should check out some other things I've saved to my craft board. What do you make when your brain can't cope with the big things?