I'm always mis-laying my thread-cutter, so I decided to make a lanyard to keep it on. I used some sewing themed fabric, some tape-measure ribbon, and a trigger clip. Initially I cut cut a strip of plain black fabric 3" wide, folded it in half and then folded the raw edges into the middle. I pressed the narrow strip this with a hot iron, opened it out, and used the fold lines as a placement guide for the ribbon. Rather than use pins, I used a Sewline glue-stick, and ran a line of glue onto the fabric. The ribbon was then pressed into place. I attached a strip of sewing themed fabric (again 3" wide) to the plain black strip, and sewed sewed the raw edges together to make one continuous piece...
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...the tube was stitched together enclosing the raw edges of the ribbon. I re-folded it and pressed it again with the iron (Mr F got rather excited at this point because when he saw the ironing board he thought I was actually going to iron his shirts!) anyway, I then stitched along the edges of the tube, making sure I was also stitching along the edge of the ribbon. I stitched along both sides, giving a nice neat finish. A trigger clip with a split ring was slipped into place, my thread-cutter attached...
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...now when I'm hand-sewing my thread-cutter won't get mis-laid. This is really useful, and I could also clip a small pair of scissors to this lanyard. If you don't have any split rings, a trigger clip can be added directly to the lanyard before you stitch the tube together.
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