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Green Your Home for Winter: Sew a Draft Stopper

Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA

Jasmin Malik Chua

By Jasmin Malik Chua
Jersey City, NJ, USA | Sun Mar 23 17:21:00 GMT 2008

Fabric draft stopper


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Green Home | Heating | Reuse | Sewing

Dodge the draft, without having to hotfoot it all the way to Canada, by stuffing fabric snakes into crevices where the chill can nip in and sneakily drive up heating costs. You can whip up your own by sewing an 8x42-inch piece of tightly woven fabric into a tube, and then stuffing it with cotton or wool batting, insulation foam, fabric scraps, kitty litter, sand, buckwheat kernels, or dried pine needles.

Check out Not Martha's Flickr page for step-by-step directions on making a twin draft guard that fits snugly on both sides of a door. And, if you've been looking for a way to reuse a couple of castoff neckties, eHow has the goods on making a draft-dodging snake of your very own.

Difficulty level: Easy

 
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