Thursday, June 20, 2013  Sew A Dumpling Five Stones  A friend
asked me if I know how to sew "five stones" that looked like a
pyramid cos she wants to sew for her kids to play. So I quickly
snip snip some fabric and did this tutorial.  Cut a fabric and
fold it into half. If you can cut and fold and make a perfect
square, that's better. Sew an L shape and leave a corner to be
opened. Or if you're joining 2 pieces of cloth, then sew 3 sides
and leave one side opened.  Flip the fabric outwards. (flip it
inside out)  And fold the opening the other way round like this.
Make sure that the sewing is right in the middle like this. You
can either sew half of the opening first then fill it up with
seeds , or fill them up an then sew up the opening.  And you
will get a five stone just like this. And after I'm done, I
thought "hey it looks like a dumpling! So appropriate since its
Chinese dumpling festival.  And here's the complete set of
dumpling five stones.  This reminds me of my first ever project
that I have sold. I