NeedleWorkMonday // used fabric waste to make 200 pices of women's ...

Happy Monday all hivers friends, today I decided for my first post in the #NeedleWorkMonday community
I am Hive account@briayana from Indonesia, I am a housewife, I am now 24 years old.

I have some experience in sewing and I have an old sewing machine that my grandmother gave to my mother because my mother is a tailor and I finished high school,

I didn't go to college because I was economic, then I learned to sew from my mother so I could sew various kinds of clothes, to knit bags and the like so in early 2021 until now I haven't had much activity in the sewing part because I have a baby and I'm a little busy with house activities and however, I always try to take advantage of the time lag to do other activities as well as possible, from photographing insects to sewing because that's part of my hobby.

A few weeks ago, a friend contacted me and asked me to make 200 pices of unique hair tie, he will use the hair tie as a gift for invited guests at his birthday next month.

I, immediately accepted the project because I had a stash of cloth waste and for 200 pics of hair tie would be enough and after bargaining, the of 1 pices of hair tie was around $0.4.

manual sewing machine.

Using this old sewing machine I had to finish this project in the gaps when I was caring for my baby by making use of the leftover fabric so it wouldn't be wasted.

Here I want to share with you some of the ways I work on this hair tie project by utilizing various colors of simple fabric waste for the stages of the manufacturing process you can see below and some of the pictures I took at night when I was sewing.

The leftover fabrics.

Then, I cut the remnants of the fabric with a width of 13cm and a length of 52cm.

Fabric after I cut.

After that I continued the process of sewing / gluing the two ends of the fabric, I used the remaining thread because the thread would not be visible when the outer part of my fabric was turned into the inside of the fabric, so here I also used the remaining thread.

one of the leftover fabric threads I have.

I put the thread on the sewing machine.

Then I proceed to sew both sides of the fabric.

I sew both sides of the fabric.

I eagerly stepped on the sewing machine's manual gas.

And the result is like this after I sew both sides of the fabric.

after I sew the two ends of the fabric.

Then I turned the outside of the cloth inward and vice versa, to make it easier, I used a stick.

The process of changing the outside of the fabric and vice versa.

After processing I flipped the outside of the fabric and vice versa, the resulting fabric would look like this.

The fabric looks round like a tunnel.

Now, it's time to install the rubber in the middle of the roll of the fabrics and here I use ordinary rubber with a width of 1cm and a length of 17cm.

Rubber.

Next I insert the rubber into the middle of the cloth roll and here I also use a safety pin as a temporary binder at the end of the cloth.

The process of inserting the rubber into the center of the fabric.

Then I continued the process of tying the two ends of the rubber using a sewing machine.

The process of sewing rubber parts.

Then I proceed to embroider to attach the two ends of the fabric so that the rubber is in the middle of the fabric and the hair tie fabric will be finished soon.

Sewing process by hand.

Now a hair tie made of useless cloth remnants is now a hair tie that is useful in everyday life and 200 pices hair tie fabric rope project finished with a unique fabric color.