I’ve spent what feels like a lot of time cutting vintage sheet charm squares recently for my Etsy shop and have been wondering what to do with the off cuts. I already carefully cut each piece of fabric carefully before folding and putting through the Go! Baby but inevitably there are bits left.
I have a drawer in a chest in our bedroom that is stuffed full of sheet offcuts, some because they have a slight mark on and others because they are smaller than 5″ square, I also have narrow and wide hems in there!
In a mission to reduce the amount of fabric in the drawer I decided to try and make some fabric tape. Now here is a joyous moment when I realised that in the UK we have something that folks in the USA don’t seem to have – double sided sticky tape!
The long and short of my experimenting is that – it works! So from today I will be adding packets of fabric tape to my Etsy shop.
I’ve used it instead of clear sticky tape when wrapping presents, it adds a real ‘pop’ to the gift:
I gave a friend a birthday gift on Friday that was wrapped and used the tape on that, she was quite delighted, even more so when she realised the gift also contained a packet of tape for her own personal use, she then told me it would go in the special stationery box just to be looked at!
So I hope you like it and if you fancy a packet of your own to use (or keep) head on over to my Etsy shop. Â You can also enter to win a packet, please leave a comment below and I’ll use the random number generator to pick a lucky winner next Sunday evening (7 October). Giveaway now closed.
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what a lovely giveaway! I’d love to win. (by the way, we do have double sided tape in the US!)
What a great idea! I hate wasting anything so it really appeals to me.
I like the look of the tape – I could colour co-ordinate the tape with the wrapping!
I’d love to win as I would never get around to making some of my own.
Oooh what a smart idea!
Fabulous Mary! (and please can I win a packet?)
oh my gosh that is just brilliant!! Looks fab 🙂
what a great idea, Mary. clever and simple too
What a great idea Mary!
Love the idea! Thanks for the chance to win 🙂
Oh so much fun! They look so cute on those packages 🙂 Please enter me in your draw!!!
Hi Mary, What a fab idea. Thanks for the giveaway xx
Fabulous tape! I love this idea!
What a super idea! You’re such a smarty pants 🙂
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I don’t know if we have that tape here in Australia either! Clever idea. Most of my scraps end up at preschool. Hehehe.
such a fun idea fir fabric scraps!!
wow! How fun! I love this idea
Great idea. This would really add something different to wrapped pressies.
Brilliant idea, I can not throw the smallest scrap away and you can only make so many ticker tape blocks.
What a great idea! It will especially add color when I realize I don’t have wrapping paper and use newspaper to wrap my presents!!! Thank you for the chance to win.
Love this idea. I will be having a go.
Love the idea of two sided tape.
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Hi Mary, what a fantastic idea. You always seem to have the good ones 🙂
What a great idea Mary! Thanks for the chance to win.
Thanks for the chance to win 🙂
this is such an awesome giveaway. Thank you for the chance!
I would love to try this!
That’s a really clever idea!