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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
If you love Marimekko fabric as much as I do, then you probably keep every little scrap of Marimekko fabric no matter how small the piece may be. I had a very small piece of Marimekko Mini Unikko blue in my stash. I thought it would be a good idea to make a Marimekko Mini Unikko blue key chain and show you step by step on how to do it yourself at home.
After only about 30 minutes you should end up with an adorable little key chain as featured here:  I sized my Marimekko Fabric remnant to 2.5 inches x 11 inches. You can easily adjust the length and width to your liking.  Now cut interfacing in the same size and iron it on to the wrong side of your fabric. Then fold the fabric strip in half and iron again.  Now iron both sides of the fabric about 1/4 inch towards the middle. I had only a very small piece of Marimekko Fabric but if you have enough fabric you should cut your fabric to be 4 times the size of your desired finished size. This way you can iron the fabric in half and line up both sides along the middle and iron it again. That is easier than trying to iron your fabric 1/4 inch like I did :)  I cut the corners on both side a little bit so it won't be too thick when trying to put the fabric into the metal key chain.  Once you are done with the ironing part your fabric strip should look like this:  Now top stitch about 1/8 inch along the edge on both sides.  You are almost done.  You can use any metal key chain but I really like this one. I don't need to use a tools in order to complete my little project. Just put in the two ends of your fabric strips (I also put some glue for extra sturdyness)....  ....and close the metal flap like so:  Guess what? You are already done.  Make a bunch of them at the same time - it won't take too much more time but all your girlfriends will love them. Have fun!  by: Imagine Fabric 
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5 Comments:
So Cute! But one question - where do you find your metal key chains? I've never seen this one. Thanks for the tutorial
I love this idea! Will you share where to find the hardware, please?
Thanks so much!
Barbara and Suzanne,
I got the metal key chain online. Below is a link that will take you to their site and that product. It is a very difficult website to navigate but they have a lot of products:
http://www.umei.com/straps/ez-adjustable-purse-strap-hooks-ct1-14.htm
Have fun making these! Thanks for visiting my Blog today.
Thank You!
So cute! I've wanted to make one of these forever & now, maybe I actually will. Thanks!
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