I find all the fake vintage products out there really annoying. As the large collection of vintage fabrics at my company proves, I love fabric patterns inspired by vintage designs. But the idea of say, paying lots of money for jeans with holes in them, has always struck me as kind of odd. Plus, I am a big supporting recycling, or trying to freshen up the old instead always buying more new things...especially in this economy!
Over at the Design Sponge blog they have a super simple fabric craft project that will add some new life to old bed linens. She creates little fabric florets out of old linens, and then attaches them to pillows that could use a little extra touch. I love it!
Materials:
Old linens
Scrap Fabric
Trims or Ribbons
RIT Dye or other household fabric dyes (optional)
Needle & Thread
Dye Bucket (only if you are using dyes)
Tools:
Sewing Machine
Iron
Step 1.
Gather your old linens, sheets and scrap fabrics and materials and decide what you are dyeing and what is going to be embellishment
Step 2: Cut scraps into squares to make little florets. Cut squares of fabric in a range of sizes (1″-3″). fold one square into a triangle and with a needle and thread, pierce through the center of the fold as shown, string along thread to knotted end, repeat stringing 3 to 5 squares per floret, tie off with a knot. Now you have a little scrap fabric flower.
Step 3: Following instructions included with packaged dye exactly, set up dye bath and brighten your linens (also, to remove color you may use a color remover, again following instructions included)
Step 4: Embellish bedding, by sewing down florets and trims. Any holes can easily be patched by basting fabric into place and then machine sewing it down. I then appliqued left over fabrics over the main patch for a homespun look.
For more photos on each step, or other great ideas, visit the
blog.
1 comments:
I really love these! The flower florets make them look exceptionally lovely!
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