Speaking of Burlap...

Lindsay's post the other day of the burlap wreath reminded me to post this project which now hangs in my front room:

Here's how I did it: First, I stitched a length of fabric down one side of my burlap piece.

Then, I folded my piece of burlap in half length-wise and tied a knot in one end of it. Then I made a rosette out of it by simply wrapping the fabric around the knot in circles, and twisting while I wrapped. Once I'd wrapped it, I hot glued the end to the underside of the rosette, and hot glued in a couple places inside the rosette to keep it together. Simple simple.

Next, I stitched down one side of a length of green fabric that I had ironed in half. Stitching down just one side gives it a little more dimension as it can pop off the fabric a bit.

Now for the leaves. Just free-handed them, and ironed on some interfacing between the front and back to give it substance.

Stitched around the edge of the leaves and actually hot-glued them into an accidental hole in my stitching of the stem. oops :)

I staple-gunned the red fabric backing to my wooden frame.

This is how it looked before I hot glued my burlap rosette onto it:

Hot glue to secure the rosette and a couple push pins in the wall to hold it up, and it's finished!