MONEY!!!

New Project!  The fabric store had a print come in that has US currency (bills) all over it. Not like the previous currency print where all the bills overlapped and none were separate enough to cut out.  THAT print has been out for a few years and I’ve made ‘money mice’ and a Cthulhu doll out of that one.

THIS print had single bills separated, on a black background with some back image bills underneath, but the main point is that each of the front side bills could be cut out individually.  Which I did.  I got one yard of the fabric and carefully cut around each, with a 1/8 – ¼” clearance.  The partial bills along the edges I saved for a future project.  I got a total of 100 individual bills, they’re about 20% smaller than the actual bills in real life.

The denominations broke down to these:

$1 bills -- 15 of them

$5  15 of them

$10  26 of them

$20  13 of them

$50  15 of them

$100  16 of them

I used green polar fleece for the backs and sewed around 3 sides, turned them right side out, put 1 tsp of catnip in each (only that much, I wanted these as flat as possible) and closed the open end.  Then I packed them into zip lock baggies, 4 bills to a bag, with random currency in each and am printing up the topper cards for the bags now.

Kitty Cash!  Non-sequential US currency bills for Kitty to spend on whatever purr-chase they want!  Total for the bills comes to a fictional $2,960.  Each baggie of cash will go for $5, so that’s $125 total sales.  The yard of fabric cost me $9.99 minus 40% on sale.  The green 3/4ths yard was $2.50 as a remnant 50% off.  Time from start to finish of the project was just under 3 hours of putzing (some of it – like the turning and catnip stuffing was done while watching a movie). 

I figure that’s a pretty good return on the materials cost.  All of them are going to Pennsic.