Tailor's Ham and Sausage & Corner Clipping Guide

I'm getting a new iron (eventually) and having the right tools to use with it sounds nice. To that end, I'm going to make a tailor's ham and sausage for pressing odd seams. Eventually.

I found this link with great patterns: https://www.tillyandthebuttons.com/2012/08/how-to-make-tailors-hams-and-sausages.html

Instructions from a myriad of sources boil down to this:

1. Cut:
- 1 of cotton or linen
- 1 of wool
- 2 of closely-woven fabric (i.e. muslin)
2. Sew darts in all pieces.
3. Layer:
- Face up 1 closely-woven
- Face up wool
- Face down cotton/linen
- Face down 1 closely-woven
4. Pin around edges.
5. Stitch around edges leaving a gap for turning.
6. Clip curves.
7. Turn.
8. Stuff extremely firmly with sawdust/wood shavings.
9. Ladder-stitch opening closed.

Cotton/linen is to be used for pressing, that's right, cotton and linen fabric. Wool is likewise used for pressing wool fabric. Something about not making wool "shiny." Muslin is layered inside that to keep the sawdust from pushing out through the outer fabric.

I have scraps of wool fabric and muslin in my stash from the Dharma scrap bag sales, and a bunch of cute quilting cotton prints for the "top" side. Now to find a source for sawdust and/or wood shavings. I can either bother my dad for dust from his shop, or others have suggested wood shavings from a pet store. I won't need the amount that the pet store is going to sell me, so hopefully my dad has some.

Here is a handy visual guide to clipping corners:

Taken from this .PDF document.