How to Make a Sash for Badges
A homemade sash is perfect for displaying the badges your child earns for merits in the classroom or in service to an organization. The typical sash goes over one shoulder and hangs under the other arm, laying prominently across the child's chest. Making sashes provides a learning activity for basic sewing. The craft incorporates measuring skills, planning and making seams by hand or with a sewing machine. Children can proudly display badges on handmade sashes after completing the craft.
Things You'll Need
- 5 by 48 inch fabric strip
- Measuring tape
- Scissors
- Chalk
- Iron
- Pins
- Needle and thread or sewing machine
- Thimble
Instructions
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Cut the strip of fabric into 2 foot lengths.
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Lay the strips with one directly on top of the other. Measure two inches down from the end on one edge at the tops of both strips. Mark the measurement with chalk. Measure two inches up from the opposite end on the same edge and make a chalk mark.
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Cut both strips from the two inch marks to the opposite corners at the ends. The strips for making sashes should be trapezoid shapes measuring 2 feet at one side and 1 foot 8 inches at the other side.
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Fold both ends of both strips 1/2 inch along the diagonal cuts toward the inside for making sashes with the seams underneath. Iron the folds to keep them in place while you sew the seams.
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Turn the homemade sash inside out and pin the material together with the folds against each other. Sew the strips together at the folds on the tops and the bottoms with a needle and thread by hand or with a sewing machine. Thread the sewing machine in advance for children to use if you're making seams by machine. Give each child a thimble for pushing the needles through the material if making seams by hand.
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Tips & Warnings
Put the finished sash on the child before selecting badge placement. Mark badge placement with chalk. Remove the sash before attaching badges. Place the first two badges just below the curve of the sash at the shoulder. Sew badges onto handmade sashes or use an adhesive such as no-sew glue.
References
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