Sewing Pattern Weights

Sewing pattern weights: flat hexagons, scallops, hearts or circles with a pocket underneath for coins or washers to make them properly heavy, and a word or name on top in a second colour. They hold paper patterns and fabric still while you cut. Comma-separate words for a batch.

Customise it in your browser, then download a print-ready STL, or a multi-colour 3MF. No CAD skills needed.

About the Sewing Pattern Weights

Pattern weights for sewing: flat weights that hold paper patterns and fabric still while you cut, with a pocket underneath for coins or washers so they’re properly heavy, and a word or name on top in a second colour. Hexagons, scallops, hearts or circles, as a batch.

Sewing Pattern Weights: a customisable 3D print, shown at its starting settings

What you can change

Type your own words on top.
Make one, or a whole batch at once: paste a list of names and get one each.
Shape: hexagon, scallop, heart and circle.
Font: 29 to choose from, from script to stencil.
Pick the weight and words colours.
Adjust size across, thickness, pocket underneath for and pocket depth.

What you download

An STL for any slicer, and a 3MF with each colour as its own part, ready for an AMS or a filament change.

Printing it

Prints flat with no supports, the pocket underneath. Fill it with coins (a £2 coin is 28.4 mm, a 2p 25.9 mm) or steel washers, glue them in, and stick a felt pad over the pocket so it won't scratch the table.

Ideas for using it

A set reading SEW, CUT, PIN, PRESS.
Weights with a sewing friend’s name.
Hearts for a quilter’s gift.

Questions

How heavy are they?

As heavy as what you put in: four £2 coins stacked make one weigh about 50 g. Glue them in and cover the pocket with a felt pad.

Do I need a multi-colour printer?

No. Print it in one colour, or in colours with a filament change: the Colours line under the 3D view says at which height to change. With an AMS or another multi-colour printer, the 3MF prints it in one go.

Which printers and slicers does it work with?

Any FDM printer. The STL opens in every slicer; the 3MF keeps the colours as separate parts in Bambu Studio, Orca Slicer, PrusaSlicer and Cura. Pick your printer in the designer to check it fits the plate.

Can I sell what I make?

On Pro and Ultimate you can sell the prints you make, for example on Etsy or at craft fairs, for as long as your membership is active: if it ends, stop selling them. On Free and Maker, print it for yourself or give it as a gift. The STL and 3MF files themselves are never for sharing or selling.