CITRUS CHIP CLIPS
Materials needed:
  • Wooden clothespins with a spring
  • Craft foam – green, yellow and orange
  • Print fabric – green, yellow and orange
  • 3 buttons per clip – green, yellow and orange
  • Fusible webbing for fabric
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • Pinking shears
  • Tacky glue
  • Iron
  • Pattern click here
Instructions:

1. Print out pattern for citrus slice and the three sections.

2. Cut out all the four pattern pieces and set aside.

3. Following the manufacturer’s instructions on the fusible webbing, iron the webbing to the back of the fabric.

4. Trace the three small citrus sections of the pattern onto the back of the webbing with a pencil.  Cut out using the pinking shears.

5. Place the pattern piece of the citrus half on the craft foam and trace around it.  Cut this out with pinking shears.

6. Match up like colors of craft foam, fabric and buttons.  The yellow pieces will be a lemon slice, the green pieces a slice of lime, and the orange pieces will be an orange slice.

7. Glue the fabric cutouts onto the craft foam.  Make sure there is a space around each piece to create the citrus sections. 

8. Glue buttons onto citrus sections as shown in the sample.

9. Glue citrus slice onto the wooden clothespin and let dry.  Now you’re ready to use as a chip clip!  You may attach a piece of magnet to the back of the clothespin with glue and use as a note holder on your refrigerator.
 

Submitted by Ms. Brenda @ Argentine


Last update May 28, 2003
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