How to Make Doorway Draft Stoppers
With the weather outside getting frightful, doorway draft stoppers can help you keep your house cozy and warm inside. Doorway draft stoppers are simple to make with a few materials and a rudimentary knowledge of sewing. They can be as fancy or plain as you wish, and can be used over and over for years to come. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- ½ yard medium weight 36 to 46 inches of wide fabric
- 1 large bag Polyfill
- 2 lb. bag uncooked rice
- Scissors
- Thread
- Sewing machine
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Instructions
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Open up the fabric on a table and cut fabric in 7 inch strips lengthwise. You will have 3 pieces of fabric 36 to 46 inches long and about 7 inches wide.This will make three draft stoppers.
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Working on one strip at a time, fold the strip in half lengthwise, right sides of the fabric together. Using the sewing machine, sew a ½ inch seam down the long side and across one short side. After sewing, turn each strip right side out. You now have a long tube with one open end.
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Fill the end of the tube with about 6 ounces of rice. Fill the middle of the tube with Poly fill, alternating every four inches or so with rice. Fill the end with six ounces of rice. The rice will help weight the draft stopper so it stays in place.
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Fold the open end in about ½ inch. Pin the end closed and sew it shut using a running stitch on the sewing machine. Complete the other draft stoppers as you did the first.
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To use, push the draft stopper against the bottom edge of drafty doors.
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Tips & Warnings
You can embellish draft stoppers with lace, ribbon, fancy buttons or fabric paint.
Draft stoppers make great gifts.
You can use other dry grains or legumes in place of rice. Peas, lentils and small dried beans work just as well. You can also use fish tank gravel to weight the draft stoppers.
