Friday, August 20, 2010

Applique and Tile Menu

I love giving and receiving handmade gifts. These are two projects that I think make great gifts!

I used applique instructions from my friend, Erin's, blog. Her post is about an initial shirt, which I also plan on making someday. Here is the link to her blog:
http://toteallyposh.blogspot.com/2010/02/appliqued-t-shirt-tutorial.html
I wanted to do a teapot, so I drew a teapot on card stock and traced it onto the pink fabric and Heat n' Bond. Then just cut them out, ironed it on and did a zig zag around it. It's an easy project except that I'm not a great sewer, so the curvy lines were tricky for me. I did sew the shirt together once, but at least I didn't sew my finger.

Here is the shirt I made.


I made two - one for a gift and one for my daughter.

Since making these, I've read that a few straight forward and back stitches at the beginning and end of the zig zag will help hold it in place.
This is a fun project and makes me want to copy the entire Mini Boden catalog!

I also made this tea towel and menu board for my mother in law's birthday (Nonni is what the kids call her).

The menu board is another easy project, and I use mine to plan our meals every week! Nothing frustrates me more (well, ok maybe a few things frustrate me more) than to cook salmon for dinner, only for my husband to come home and say he had salmon for lunch. Now, I don't feel sorry for him, because what we are having for dinner has been written there all week.
I found the idea for it here:
http://www.somewhatsimple.com/2009/07/tile-menu-board.html
I have also seen plain white plates used, which is also really cute. The white tile was ridiculously cheap at Lowe's (under 50 cents), and the easel is from JoAnn's. I used paint pens to write/draw what I wanted to stay permanently and keep the dry erase marker velcroed to the back.
Here is mine.





1 comment:

  1. That turned out so cute Holly! Thanks for linking back to my blog, too!

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