Little Corbin Hill: Holidays

Monday, November 19, 2012

Thanksgiving turkey shirt

I knew I wanted to make a cute shirt for Kenna for Thanksgiving this year! After playing around in Photoshop and Paint.net and trying to make my own pattern, I found My Cottage Home’s caaaa-ute Gobble Gobble shirt and whaddayaknow? She has a template =) Woot woot!
Okay, so here we go, for the template, GO HERE
Supplies:
1 shirt
6 different scraps of fabric
fusible interfacing
turkey template
sewing machine
iron
Tutorial:
I gathered my supplies and fawned over my pretty fabric.

Awww, I love fabric. I actually had some other scraps picked out that I already had at home but after seeing all the fat quarters in the big box store, I just had to buy some, of course!

I borrowed these next two pics from Lindsay at My Cottage Home since I got caught up in crafting and didn’t get enough pics. I ironed all my scraps on my interfacing, then flipped it over to trace my feathers. I then cut my feathers out. You do this also for your turkey’s body. I ran out to my craft shed to scrounge up some canvas like material for my turkey body.

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So, after cutting out my feathers, I peeled off the backing and started to arrange my feathers. Like Lindsay said, this is a trial and error process until you get them like you want them. So, I arranged feathers like 50 times, lol.

Once, they were semi-perfect because, hey, you can never get something exactly like you want it, lol, I peeled the backing off my turkey and placed him over the feathers. With my iron VERY hot, I slowly ironed everything down.

And TAAA-DAHHHH! I love it and Kenna does too. She wanted to carry it around in her purse.

I did sew around my turkey because I bought the light weight interfacing that is “sewable.” It made it look a bit messy since I’m not the greatest at sewing around things and sewing on a curve =/ There has to be a trick for that! Also, I did not add eyes, nose, feet, etc. but I’ve seen tutorials that did the extras and they looked great. Honestly, I just got lazy and didn’t want to mess it up, lol.

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! With lots of yummy food, pies and many blessings =)

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Monday, October 8, 2012

Fall Wreath

Managed to whip up two wreaths this weekend and I’m sharing with you one of them. The wreath I’m calling my Fall Wreath (creative, I know, hehe), I’ve decided to put up in the house instead of on the door for now. All you’ll need is a wire clothes hanger, material for your wreath (I used burlap and fabric from a jellyroll), and the usual supplies like hot glue, scissors, a band-aid for the hot glue burn that leaves a whopper of a blister. Yeah, that was just for me. I always have one casualty while using that thing!
I had my husband unwrap the clothes hanger for me because I tried and couldn’t. After cutting my burlap into 2 1/2 in. strips, I started weaving it onto the clothes hanger. I believe I used about 2 yards of burlap but the more, the better because it will look full and fluffy and not show the clothes hanger. I think I needed about another 1/2 or whole yard because I kept rearranging so no silver metal was peaking through, then I’d dab some hot glue here and there to make some of the folds lay right. So, after I finished with weaving, I had my husband twist the wire, then I cut off the extra wire with wire cutters. Now you’re ready to decorate it!

fall burlap rosette wreath from wire clothes hanger

TA-DAH! I’m pretty smitten with it! I’m also smitten with Classy Clutter’s pretty burlap wreath too I came across! Love the ribbon and monogram! Check out Mallory and Savannah’s blog by clicking the link or picture below! =)