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Sew and fill the doorstop - DIY instructions

  • Quick to self-sewn doorstop
    • material selection
    • patterns
    • cut out
    • special form
    • It is sewn
    • The filling

It's true: you can buy a doorstop in every Bauhaus and it usually costs not much. But why not bring some color into the house ">

Quick to self-sewn doorstop

Difficulty level 2/5
(suitable for beginners)

Material costs 1/5
(depending on the choice of material between € 0, - from the remaining utilization and € 15, -)

Time expenditure 1/5
(about 0.75 hours)

material selection

For doorstops and other small projects, I like to use fabric remnants. Of course, you can also buy specific fabrics, so that your little work of art fits perfectly into your interior design. Stretchy cotton or linen fabrics with or without pattern are best. To reinforce the bottom of our door stoppers, we recommend a slightly stronger material such as thick fleece, felt or in my case, a full-length residual material.

patterns

I chose a pyramid shape. The pattern is very simple: fold a sheet of paper in the middle and draw half the width away from the fold. For the height I took half the time 1.5 times. Cut, unfold and half of the pattern is already done. Now measure the bottom of the resulting triangle and draw a square with exactly this length. Also, cut out this.

cut out

All fabric parts must be cut with seam allowance. With me that's about 0.8cm on each side. The triangle is required four times in the cut. You can either use only one fabric, four different fabrics or even a prefabricated patchwork fabric part, to suit your taste. The square is trimmed twice, once again in a cotton or linen fabric and a second time in a stronger material such as fleece, felt or wool.

Tip: When making motifs, please always take care when cutting that the cut is not taken upside down, otherwise the motif will be turned upside down or rotated 90 degrees.

special form

As you have already seen in the last picture, a piece of fabric with already sewn-in zipper was used in a triangle. For this you can just any piece from a no longer used "work piece" (I have repeatedly garment and upholstery pieces that I no longer use, but also do not want to throw away, these land in my box for workpieces, which I like to work up later would like to use) or use a zipper extra for this purpose. How exactly this works, I have already described in detail in my last post about zippers.

Why I do this is easily explained: It looks nice and I save with a turn-around and sewing by hand with a hidden seam. In addition, I can use the door stopper so later also other worthy and fill him, for example, with odds and hang. If you would prefer to sew a doorstop without a zipper, remember to avoid a turn-around opening on one of the edges (not on the corner) and later to sew it invisibly with a so-called "ladder stitch". A guide to this variant can be found in my article with the theme "Sewing spelled pillows themselves".

It is sewn

First, I put two rectangles together right to right (ie with the nice sides to each other) together and staple them with a simple straight stitch. At the beginning and at the end, do not forget sewing and then iron out the seam allowances.

Then I put these two pieces together again right to right and in between, I put a loop from a cord firmly, with the loop down, since this is supposed to come later to lie outside. For this loop also woven tape, bias tape or a self-sewn tape can be used. Now I sew the upper edges with a simple straight stitch again, of course sew on each beginning and end, and step two or three more times over the seam allowance with the drawstring, so that it holds well later.

When you unfold the lower opening, you can already see how your pyramid takes shape. The pins on my photo secure the endless zipper, so on the one hand, the slider does not slip from the teeth and on the other hand, the two open ends do not slip in height and closes the zipper later nice. In addition, it is important that it is open at least halfway, as we need this opening in the next step as a turning hole.

On the left (inner) side of the bottom square you now place the square of the stronger material, turn both and place your half-finished pyramid right to right on it. Now you can start fixing the corners with pins. Make sure that the fabric does not wrinkle at the edges and is nicely joined together when the zipper is open.

Now sew around all the time, so that at the corners you lower the needle into the fabric, lift the presser foot, turn the fabric 90 degrees, lower the presser foot again and sew on. Sew on at the beginning and end and if you do not use a zipper, remember to leave at one of the edges a turning opening with a few centimeters of play. Now you can already cut off the corners at an angle, so that the layers of fabric do not so apply after turning.

With my zipper variant, I am now ready so far. I carefully remove the needles and turn my workpiece.

The filling

Usually you fill such doorstop with sand, but you can also use small pebbles, granules or the like, provided that you have leftovers. So that everything really stays in the pyramid and does not dust or trickle through the fabric, you simply take a small plastic jumbo bag and push it into the pyramid, filling it with the desired material, closing the bag with a rubber band, pushing put everything in well and close the doorstop. In my case, this simply means: zipper closed - and ready!

Without zipper you now close the turning opening with the previously mentioned ladder stab and are also finished!

Quick Guide:

1. Draw section and cut with seam allowance
2. Join two triangles and iron on the seam allowances
3. Lay the two pieces together, with the loop in between
4. Attach the pyramid to the ground
5. Cut off the corners at an angle and turn them over
6. Fill (plastic bag and rubber band)
7. Close - done!

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