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Saturday 15 May 2021

Quasi-Tutorial: Selvage Fabric Canister

Selvage Fabric Canister by eSheep Designs
A multi-purpose selvage fabric "canister"...
Welcome to week three of "Make it in May". 

I didn't really know what to call this, but after much consideration, it feels right to classify it as a "canister" even though it's not made out of ceramic or metal.

In any case, it's a straight cylinder style container, made out of the sheet of selvage fabric that I posted about here.

I don't know how the idea to seam it into a tube and then fold it in half came to me, but once I tried it out, I knew I had to complete the concept by attaching a base to it.

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I didn't bother using any selvages to make the base, although one certainly could. (If you are one of those who has a lot of selvages at your disposal, go for it.)

Selvage Fabric Canister by eSheep Designs
Turned upside down, it's a platform for something...

Turn it upside down and it functions as a drum style stand for something like this old Valentine stuffie.




Here is a quick summary of what I did.

Take any rectangular piece of selvage "fabric" (selvages sewn to a medium weight interfacing like Decor Bond) and pin the short edges together. Sew and then flip half of it right side out onto itself.

Selvage Fabric Canister by eSheep Designs
Create a tube and turn half of it out on top of the other half...

This results in an open ended cylinder that shows the fabric on both the inside and the outside, with the top edge being folded. At this point, I gave it a good press so that it would hold its shape.

Next I made a circular template (using the top edge of the cylinder as a guide) and cut two circles out of Peltex. Fabric scraps were fused onto them and then trimmed to 3/4" all the way around.

Selvage Fabric Canister by eSheep Designs
Create the base out of two pieces of Peltex and some scrap fabric...

The fused circles were stacked (with right sides out) and sewn together, right against the edge of the Peltex. The resulting piece was then basted to the "lining" part of the cylinder. This can be a little tricky to handle, so either make big stitches like I did here to get 'er done (and then go around again with smaller hidden stitches), or make small cuts into the seam allowance of the base to help it conform to the cylindrical shape.

Selvage Fabric Canister by eSheep Designs
Baste the base onto the lining part of the tube...

After that, I pulled the top part of the tube back down until it was flush with the base. The final step was to slipstitch around the base to attach it to the outside layer of the selvage fabric.

Selvage Fabric Canister by eSheep Designs
Slipstitch base to outside layer...

One final trip to the iron to give it a good press and it was done. Quite simple, really.


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Here are some pics of the finished item from various angles.

Selvage Fabric Canister by eSheep Designs
One view...

A medium weight interfacing (like the Decor Bond that I used) works well to give this canister some stiffness.

Selvage Fabric Canister by eSheep Designs
Another view...

I'm glad I mixed up the orientation of the selvages when I laid them out on the interfacing. Whether used as a container or a stand, there will always be text that is right side up.

Selvage Fabric Canister by eSheep Designs
View of interior...

The finished size is approximately 5.25" high with a 4.25" base, meaning that I probably started off with a sheet of Decor Bond measuring 10.5" x 14.5". But as I pointed out, you can use any size rectangle to start. (And of course, you can also make this with regular fabric, no selvages required.)


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When I got the idea to do this, it was with no specific end use in mind. (The pencil crayons shown at the top were already being contained in my original "proof of concept" VoilĂ  Vase.) For the time being, it's home for the Valentine puppy.

Selvage Fabric Canister by eSheep Designs
Home for a stuffie...

He's been sitting in a corner of my desk for years. This looks to be a perfect fit.

For the sewing room, this could be a thread catcher (if made on a shorter scale)... or perhaps a container for a new collection of selvages! 

'Til next...

2 comments:

  1. That's a fun and useful selvage project! I might try one, but use a lining for the inside and selvages for the exterior. You could also use foam stabilizer too, which would yield a softer feel to it, but would stand up nicely too. I did make a scrappy short container with foam and it worked, so I could make that one using selvages and maybe try different stabilizers to see which I prefer. I find Decor Bond tends to wrinkle my fabric when I turn a project, and the same with fusible foam and Peltex. So I prefer the sew in stabilizers for that reason. Thanks for the inspiration Rochelle. Your Valentine Pup is cute!

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