Hello Everyone, it's Martha again with a Halloween project that I hope you'll like. I love Halloween so I thought I'd give this idea a try. Of course, you can adapt this project to any holiday or no holiday at all.
I usually start projects with a general idea of what I want to make, then let them evolve as I go along. With that thought, I took out the stencils I wanted to use and some fabrics. I'll list all of the supplies I used down below.
I don't like to measure unless it's absolutely necessary so I mostly eyeballed everything during this process. I tore the muslin fabric into rectangular shapes because I had originally planned to fold over the tops of these pieces to make the openings through which I would thread the string to hang the garland. That plan "evolved" as I went along, but I'll describe that later.
Then I started stenciling on the muslin fabric pieces with acrylic paints.
I was liking this so far, but decided that I needed some additional color and interest on some of these pieces. I added this warning sign in orange to this one.
I stenciled some of the designs with gesso first to make the second color stand out more from the background.
At some point during the stenciling I realized that I could make five pieces with the stencils I chose, but needed more than that for a garland so I made two of each piece.
I was happy with my pieces so far but thought they needed more so here is where my plan changed a bit. I decided to put the muslin pieces on top of some fun fabrics. I tore the fun Halloween fabrics into long rectangular pieces and tore down the muslin pieces into more of a square shape that would fit nicely onto the colorful fabrics. Again I just eyeballed everything. I planned on folding over the tops of the colorful fabrics to make that opening for the string to hang the garland. I also pulled out some ribbons to further decorate my pieces.
I did then fold over the top of each piece and sewed around the stenciled muslin pieces. Instead of machine stitching I think some hand stitching around these pieces would look great too.
I used Fabri-Tac to glue the ribbons on and just snipped off the ends with my scissors.
I'm almost finished! I chose this string and threaded it through the openings at the top of each piece with this large paper clip. I was forced to break out my ruler for this part. I measured one piece then multiplied by the number of pieces (ten in this case). I then added an extra three inches on each side of the pieces (you'll see why below), added more inches to make sure I had enough string on each end to hang this thing, then doubled all of that. My string is quite thin so I wanted to double it. That's a lot of measuring!
I added some ribbons in between each piece. This is what I had originally intended to use the fabrics for but thought the ribbons added a nicer contrast.
And with that my project is finished! I tried it on my bookshelf which looks nice. Then I hung it over a window and I love it there. Did I mention I love Halloween?? The garland fits right in with my decorations.
I hope you'll give this project a try!
Supplies Used:
Industrial Signage
Industrial Wordage
June 2021 Stencil Club June Pfaff Daley
Webbed Medallion
Gross Anatomy Inside My Head
Twist Lattice Stencil
Jackwitch Mini
Fabrics
Acrylic Paints
Foam Wedge Sponges
Ribbons
Sewing Machine
String
Scissors
Glue ( I used Fabri-Tac)
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