Monday 5 January 2015

Draft Excluders

After making one draft excluder for a friend, who had recently moved house and had a very wide door, for which a normal draft excluder would be useless, it cascaded into several.  As every time I mentioned draft excluders the person i told said ‘Ooh, I could do with some of those’.

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After the first lot where I sewed down a short edge and one long side, I realised that it was so much easier to sew down the long side, then pull the stuffing through and seal the ends afterwards.  Yeah!!

I used thick wadding to stuff them as it can be rolled and easily pulled through the centre.  It also gives a much smoother appearance to the finished item.  Using stuffing makes them lumpy and look like Nora Batty’s stockings.

Each takes half a metre of fabric, preferably curtain weight or heavier and 1 metre of thick wadding rolled up.

Hannah’s

Hannahs Draft Excluders

Yaz’s

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Ella’s

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Ssshhh, don’t tell anyone else!!

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