I needed to change out my wreath for
my front door. I loved the look of all the fabric flowers but I wanted
something more summer-like.
So
I headed to the goodwill. To my surprise it was $1.00 shirt day!
Yeah! I stocked up on vibrate summer colors that I could cut and sew
together. I could just feel the curiosity the lady who helped check me
out on what I was planning on doing with these shirts. I definitely was
not going to be wearing these!
I had bought a sewing machine
shortly after I graduated from college. My dreams of becoming a
designer who could offer made-to-order sewn pillows and curtains for
customers was short lived, or should I say never lived! OH-well....I
now have a machine that has come in handy.
My machine did not come with a
ruffling foot....(I don't even know if that's the correct name) nor did I
know how to adjust the stitches to make it ruffle. I did know how to
pull the thread and gather the fabric. And I did start to do that, but
that was pain-staking to say the least. Plus my thread kept breaking
and all that I gathered before came undone.
I had come across this awesome sewing blog that she had made a summer scarf found here.
She used elastic thread in the bobbin. She also said that in some
machines it doesn't work. OH-gosh.....I had my fingers double crossed
that it would work in my mine.
I had some elastic thread left
over from my little-girl-hair-making-days (another dream that really
never took off and I have incredible amount of bows left over to show
for it). I wound it up on the bobbin, it was tricky, and put it down in
the machine. And it worked!
I didn't have linen on hand to
use as in the tutorial. I used that Osnaburg fabric (don't know if
that's the correct name or not) found cheaply at Walmart. It ruffled
great! It was light weight and was perfect for my summer wreath.
I liked the ruffles going down the wreath versus the
one coming up. So I wanted to hide them and decided to put my flowers
on that side.
I made a ton of flowers and I dont' know if it seems to much. I really like the different colors it adds to my front door.
I have flowers in planters on my front porch and this wreath mimics those colors.
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