Welcome to our pinkeep class! Almost any small design can be turned into a pinkeep. They are very easy to put together and quite addictive!
For a materials list, please go here.
1. First, decide how big you want your pinkeep to be. Measure your design, allowing a little extra round the edges for a border.
Cut out two pieces of card the size of your measurement. (The card can be any stiff card – I often use cereal packets or wine boxes!)
Cut out two pieces of batting the same size.
Cut out your design, leaving spare fabric for the border plus about 3/4″ extra all round.
Cut a piece of coordinating backing fabric the same size as your design piece (not shown here).
2. Place one piece of batting on each piece of card. You can glue the batting lightly in place if you want, but glue isn’t essential.
3. Take your backing fabric and glue or lace it to one piece of card/batting so that the batting side is neatly covered. Try to make the corners as neat as you can.
Repeat with your stitched piece and the remaining piece of card/batting.
Both pieces can be either laced or glued. I have shown each method here but if you don’t like glue near your stitching then just lace both sides.
4. Optional step. Glue the two pieces together so the fabric sides are outermost. If you don’t want to use glue you must sew the pieces together as in step 5.
5. Using a coordinated sewing thread, ladder stitch the front and back pieces together along the edges as shown. A curved needle makes this much easier. Pull the thread gently to secure the pieces together and make the edge neater.
NB. Glue may hold the pinkeep together alone but sewing the pieces together makes it more secure and neatens the edges.
6. Use coordinated pins to pin ribbon or cording around the edges of your pinkeep. You can decorate with a bow at the top if you like.
NB. The pins should hold the ribbon in place without any need for sewing or gluing it on.
And there’s your pinkeep finished! Easy to do.
I hope you could follow the tutorial and enjoyed it. If you have any questions, please leave a comment, and please do share photos of your finished pinkeeps with us!
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Nicki…awesome tutorial…photos and description made this a fool proof project.. Thanks fro all your gelp.
I have a tiny French design of a needleworker at her floor stand done in black on a light rose. I am going to make the pinkeep with black ribbon on the edge and silver pins. Will take a picture as soon as it is finished.
Thanks Nicki for a great tutorial – clear and easy to follow 🙂
Yay! Thanks for the great instructions, Nicki! I just finished my first pinkeep!
This is a great tutorial, thank you very much Nicki for taking the time to write it. I’m not sure I have time to make one this weekend but I will definately be referring back to this when I make my first one!
Wonderful tutorial, Nicki! You make it look so easy…and gives me courage to try one…again! My first attempt was a glueing disaster!
Thanks for the tutorial! I’m going to try and make one as soon as I have the time and something to make a pinkeep out of 🙂
Thanks Nicki for the great tutorial! The pinkeep I finished was the best I had ever done. 🙂
Thanks for the great tutorial, Nicki! I’ve never made a pinkeep, but I think I’m going to have to try my hand at making one now.
Thanks for the clear class – I had no problems at all! I admit I used double sided tape instead of glue, but then again, I’m notoriously challenged when it comes to gluing! Nic
Thank you very much !
Thanks for that, now i can make a pinkeep.
Thanks so much for the great tutorial! I will follow your steps, making my first pinkeep!
Dear Nicki, thank you for the excellent class! This is exactly how I was taught to do it as a child.
I’d like to know the source/designer of the initial–that style with the grapes growing over it would so suit us. Thanks again!
felitaciones,el tutorial muy bueno
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Great idea! And great tutorial–very clear with great step-by-step pictures.
felicitaciones, ahora si podre hacer my pinkeep y muchas gracias por las clases, un saludo de todo corazon desde Chile.
What a lovely project! WordPress linked my blog to this post so I had to come and see, and I’m glad I did! I’m going to have to make some of these.
Gracias, muchas gracias por ese tutorial, explicación perfecta con paso a paso y dibujos…..felicitaciones y gracias por compartir tus conocimientos con todas nosotras………….yo estoy encantada, tenía tiempo queriendo hacerlos, para recuerdos de nacimiento con figuras de bebes …estoy a tu orden desde Venezuela.
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Great tutorial!