Skill Badge Sash

by Becky Stern

published August 13, 2012, last updated August 13, 2012

posted in Educators

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Project guide

Overview

Collecting maker skill badges is fun, but you need a place to display them! Sure, you could put them on your backpack, but we'd like to show you how to make this easy sash to celebrate all the skills you've earned.

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Download the free PDF pattern for this sash and print it out (it's 3 pages- one size fits most kids). It's printed with a bit of overlap on each piece so that you can easily tile the pieces together into one sheet.

Cut off the margin on one overlapping piece of the pattern.

Overlap the newly cut piece and line up the pattern with its corresponding neighbor.

Tape the pattern pieces together. Repeat with the remaining piece of paper.

Cut around the border of the paper pattern.

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Pin the pattern to your fabric. You want four pieces total, so here I have pinned and cut two layers at a time and I will repeat on a different area of fabric.

If your fabric is big enough, you can cut all four layers at once, or cut four layers with the shoulder seam (marked on the pattern) on the fold.

Get ready to sew at the shoulder seam if you didn't cut it on the fold-- make two stacks of two fabric layers each.

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Stitch a seam all the way across one shoulder, and at either end of the other shoulder seam, leaving a space for turning it right side out later. Check out the illustration above.

Line up the right sides of your sash-length pieces.

Pin all around the edges, and pin the shoulder seam allowances open.

Stitch around the pinned perimeter.

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Cut notches in the convex side and slits in the concave sides of the sash's curves. Cut off the sharp corner point. All this will allow the seam allowance to accommodate for the shape it will take once the sash is turned right side out.