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In this video I'm going to show you how to make your own zero waste eco-friendly makeup
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remover pads. They're really easy, great for beginners, in fact great for all of us
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If you stay till the end I'm going to show you how to present them really well and you could use them as gifts or simply for your own storage solution
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I'm Christine of Christie's Crafts and this channel is dedicated to crafting on a budget
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So the first thing you're going to need is some cotton. You can use fabric scraps, leftover
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bits. What I'm using here is leftover from an origami bag I sewed and I'm going to drop
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the link below the video if you want to go and look at that origami bag
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And you need some sort of towel in fabric. Now I'm using an old dressing gown, a towel
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in robe and you are on this channel going to see several projects made out of this
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I'm going to see how many I can get out of this old towel in robe so stay tuned
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Please subscribe if you want to see the rest of those. And you're going to need some way to cut your squares out. You can use a cutting board and
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a wheel or you could use scissors and a ruler. It really doesn't matter
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Now I'm going to show you using the cutting board and a wheel because it's so quick and
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efficient. But however you're doing it you're looking to cut out squares
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Now I recommend 3 1⁄2 inches these squares. You can obviously make them bigger or smaller
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whatever suits you. But I think 3 1⁄2 inches works really well and you end up with squares
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approximately 3 inch square when you've finished. And how many do you make? That again is entirely up to you
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I'm making 10 simply because I can get 10 out of this fabric. But maybe 7 or 14 would
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be a good number. So you've got enough for a week or a fortnight
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So once you've got all your cotton squares, guess what? You're going to repeat the process
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with your towel in fabric. Now I'm using a sleeve off my towel in robe. But it doesn't
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matter what you're using. Towels or maybe even new fabric. Then simply cut your squares
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Now the thing you will notice is all the tiny bits. When you're cutting towel in there's
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no way around it. It makes a mess. So be prepared. You are going to have to vacuum. And they
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stick to your clothes. So when you've got all the ones you want, make sure you've got
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the same number of each. We're going to batch make these. So what you're going to do is
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take one square of your cotton fabric and one square of your towel in fabric. Choose
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which side is going to be the right side. And the two right sides you're going to place
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together. So you're going to place the right side of the cotton fabric onto the right side
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of your towel in fabric. And you're going to pin or clip the two squares together. I
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like clips because I think they're quite flexible to use and I don't keep stabbing myself on
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the pins. But it really doesn't matter. Once you've got them secure, you're going to sew
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all the way around. However, you're going to leave a gap on one side so that you can
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turn it out to the right side when you've finished. Leave a reasonable size gap. You
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don't want to be struggling to turn them through. So repeat that with all of yours so they're
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all ready to sew. And then it's over to the sewing machine. So pop your square in so that
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you're just going to grow, of course I mean sew, a small bit on one side into the corner
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Say half an inch, that sort of size. And you're going into the corner and then reverse
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so that you get a nice secure end on your seam. Then back into the corner, make sure
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the needle's in, lift the foot and turn it through 90 degrees. Now if like me you're
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not happy you're in the right place, just go back and do another stitch by hand and
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then put your foot down. And then you're going to go all the way along that side, right to
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the other corner. And again, once you get to the corner you're going to make sure the
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needle's in, lift the foot and turn. Complete the other side, needle in, lift the foot and
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turn. And then when you come back to the side you started on you need to be a little bit
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careful. You're just going to sew another half an inch or so, reverse and secure. And
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then that's the first one sewn. Cut off your threads and then obviously you've got all
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the rest to do. So make sure you sew them all and then it's time to move on. I recommend
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that you cut the corners off all of your squares. Now what you're doing is removing bulk so
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that they sit nicely when you turn them out and sew them. You're not trying to get really
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close to the stitches, you don't want to risk cutting your stitches. You're just getting rid
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of some of that excess material. You can see I'm not cutting a lot off at all. And repeat that for
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all of them and then one by one turn them all out to the right side. And you can see as you do this
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that you're forming that pad that you're expecting to see. We've got the cotton on one side and the
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toweling on the other. So poke into the corners carefully. If you want to use something like a
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chopstick you can do, just don't use anything sharp. And then on that open side you're going
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to fold the two pieces of fabric in and clip or pin them so that you've got your completed square
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Do that for all of them and then you're going to top stitch all the way around to finish off. It
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gives a nice edge and it closes that hole. So over to the machine, set off on whichever side
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you like and sew as you did before where you turn every corner until you get all the way around and
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back over the stitching you started with. Make sure you go over it and then do a little reverse
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just to tidy up. You can do as many rows of top stitching as you like. I chose to just do one
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Now at the start of this video I said I'd show you different ways of presenting or gifting your
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makeup remover pads. Well one way is to wrap them in a little label. Now if you look below this video
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you'll find a link so that you can print off mine or you can make your own up. So simply bundle up
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a few of your pads and wrap your label around and it just makes them look that little bit more
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professional. Now you can simply glue that together or I found actually the best way to do it was to
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just use a little bit of double-sided tape and that solves the problem. It means you're not risking
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getting glue on your pads and it makes a good tidy finish. So then simply take the protective paper
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off and then position it where you want it and wrap it round. I think they look really great as
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gifts or if you're going to sell them or whatever you're doing with them. Another way is to make a
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little case for your makeup remover pads and this is if it's just for you or if you're gifting it
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You can make a lovely little box just like this one here and it's just made using some fabric and
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an old cardboard box that something came in. If you look on the screen you'll see there's a video
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link that you can go to to find out how to make your fabric covered box and I'll also put the link
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below the video and then you can simply pop your makeup pads in there and you can just peel them
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out one at a time when you want them. So I hope you've enjoyed this video and please subscribe
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to see more of them and give me a thumbs up so it'll go to more people. Enjoy making your
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makeup remover pads and being zero waste
