What Do Film Canisters and Sand Have in Common?

July 3rd, 2007 in sewing, paper crafts

Threads Magazine, contributor

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Hold a pattern steady while tracing and cutting it by filling film containers with sand and using them as pattern weights.

Photo: Scott Phillips

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It’s not a cheesy sewing joke—plastic 35mm film containers are truly worth their weight in sand! You’ll save yourself the trouble and aggravation of trying to hold a pattern steady while tracing and cutting it by filling the containers with sand and using them as pattern weights.

Submitted by: N. Shriber, Springfield, Virginia.

posted in: sewing, paper crafts, tip, weight

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Blackstonecat writes: Empty vitamin bottles, and prescription pill bottles also work well if you fill them with sand or plaster.

Cans of tuna work well because they are low and don't tip over and roll off the table. Of course you have to rotate your canned food stock, and use them up but I always have tuna on hand in my basement pantry, so when I run out of other weights I reach for a few cans.

Posted: 2:52 am on May 23rd