Delving into my sewing drawer the other day, I unearthed this little badge/bag.
It is about 4 inches long, 3 inches wide and has a long with a long, closed loop attached.
Why would you make that, you ask?
At one time I belonged to a quilt group that was just forming and we had no official name tags or badges.
And, being tired of writing my name on a paper badge and slapping it on my shoulder,
And because I always had trouble locating my embroidery scissors, I made this small permanent badge.
I could put my little scissors into it, just loop over my head and march off to the meetings.
The fabric is a delicious scrap of some kind of miraculous canvas. I have no clue where it came from, being the fabric hoarder that I am, but it is not all cotton.
It must be some kind of commercial grade poly blend. But whatever it is, I sure wish I could get my hands on more. It goes into the washer and comes out looking exactly the same.
The inner lining is another scrap of decorator fabric from a sample tablet I scrounged from somewhere. (I have boxes of this stuff.) It makes a very nice surprise when you lift the fold-over.
The strapping and trim is made from yet another scrap of felty-fake-leather-y fabric.
And the knot for the loop is made by taking a bit of this, making it into a tape and then tying it into a monkey's fist knot.
The logo on the front is made with Coats & Clark cotton embroidery thread over a free-hand pencil copy of my logo.
Previously, I used this logo for a metal dye and stamp made to mark my art books and books I want to keep in my collection.
Later on, the metal dye became a stamp for my clay pottery.
I still use it at times on my clay art, but only on pieces that have a flat bottom.
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