DIY Fabric Heart Fall Bunting with Free Template

I know. Fall is over, I guess. But it's really not, people. I know the department stores, your neighbors' house strung with lights, Pinterest, and all the bloggers ever are insisting it's Christmas already, but it's actually not winter yet. We haven't even had Thanksgiving!! Believe me, I'm tempted, just like you, to stay up until 1 am decorating the Christmas tree almost every night of the week these days, but I refrain. Why? Because I love pumpkins. I can't bear to throw them away yet. They're not even rotting. Also because of Thanksgiving. 

I thought for just a minute I might be hosting Thanksgiving this year for my family, and even though I'm not now, I decided to decorate my mantel for the holiday. More on that in this post! I knew I needed a cute flag bunting to hang. Luckily I had already made this sweet fabric heart one for our rehearsal dinner before our wedding a couple weeks ago! I love it when I can reuse decorations for different occasions.  

Here it is on our Thanksgiving Mantel. 

Sadly I don't have any quality pictures of it on the mantel at the Rehearsal Dinner. It was pretty cute there, too. 

Want to make a sweet fabric heart bunting for your house, too? 

Of course you do, this could be used for ANY holiday or season- not just Fall or Thanksgiving. Think pink and red patterned fabrics for Valentine's Day, plaids and reds and greens for Christmas, or your child's favorite colors for their birthday! Bam. Most versatile bunting tutorial ever. 

Let's go. 

Gather Materials:

 Glitter scrapbook paper, Kraft card stock, twine, fabric, hole punch, scissors, a pen glue and 

these templates.

Create the Flags.

 Print the templates onto card stock and cut out. Use templates to trace and cut the flags onto the paper and then glue. I made 12 flags and this made my bunting about 5 feet long. 

 Trace and cut the hearts into the fabrics.

 Sew the hearts onto the flags. I didn't pin these or anything because it's difficult to do through the paper so the fabric will shift on you some. I found it easy to sew one side of the heart and then turn the paper while the needle was still down, sew back over the side I had just sewn and then sew the other side. After a little trial and error, I found that this decreased the amount of bubbles in the fabric. It may not be totally flat, but that's okay. I then sewed around the heart another time or two to create a kind of sketchy outline as you can see in the photo below. 

You finished a flag! Repeat however long your hear desires.

String the Flags.

 Use a hole punch at the top of the flags as shown and thread the twine through, starting at the back, allowing the twine to sit on top of the flag and then threading it to the back again. 

 Hot glue some bows onto each side if you like and you're done! If you like, you could put a tiny dot of hot glue on the back of each flag and press the twine into it once you have it placed where you want so the flags don't slide around. I didn't do this in case I want to use the bunting somewhere else and space the flags out a little more. They don't really move too much once you've got them hung. 

If you loved this tutorial, be sure to go check out my Thanksgiving Mantel as well! 

Thanks for reading. It's good to be back. I hope to post a little more regularly now that the wedding is over. More diy wedding tutorials are definitely in this little blog's horizon as well. 

Happy Holidays!

Thanksgiving or Fall Tablescape

Hello! I feel like it's been forever since I've posted. Probably because it has. I'm sorry. I've had lots of school things going on and I've just been exhausted after school. It's just that time of year where I get really tired after work and just want to sit on the couch and do nothing. So I'm sorry. I have lots of ideas that did not get done for fall decorating and sewing. Hopefully Christmas will not be the same. My goal is to start scheduling in "creating time" so I will actually put my ideas and plans into action. Let's hope it works. I'm planning a wreath today. So get excited.

 Kroger had big bunches of fall flowers for $1.99 a couple days before Thanksgiving so I decided to make some flower arrangements. I've been dying to try the carved out pumpkin with a vase inside idea. 

 I just love these colors. I am always sad to see them go when we pull out the Christmas decorations. I love decorating for Christmas, but pumpkins and gourds might still be my favorite. 

 To make the pumpkin vase extra special, I simply added some lace trim on top of a strip of burlap and tied some twine around it in a simple bow. I secured it all with a few dots of hot glue. 

I did the same with the jar I was using. I used this vintage wide lace trim I had and glued it on first. Then I wrapped the twine around the middle several times and then glued some gold sequin trim to the middle. I just love decorated jars like this. 

I know no one needs a Thanksgiving or Fall tablescape now that the Christmas season is fully upon us, but I thought I'd share anyway. It was just too pretty. Have a wonderful day! 

Thanks for reading!

Fall Scarves!

Oh my gosh. Today was so cold compared to what it has been like! I was so glad I had this scarf! Scarves really do make you so much warmer. This infinity scarf and the ruffle one below are SO easy to make. It's worth the 20 minutes or so it takes to do! I used this easy infinity scarf tutorial. 

 I also made this ruffle scarf from that fun silky fabric you always see and don't know what to do with. 

The black with gold dots is perfect and just in time for HALLOWEEN! 

I used this simple ruffle scarf tutorial.

Do you have any favorite simple scarf tutorials you love? I'd love to check them out!

Sorry I've been so MIA. October is my favorite month, but also the busiest month. Parent Teacher conferences, halloween costume sewing, getting sick, etc. 

Look out for more posts soon since I'm just now getting caught up! 

New Fall Wreath! A Gold and Orange Pumpkin Patch

While I love my fall wreath from last year, I needed something new. And I LOVE this wreath even more.

I am so excited about enjoying it until the Christmas decorations go up! 

 If you haven't figured it out yet, I love gold and I think gold and orange together is SO pretty for fall. 

I'm loving the orange and gold with that vibrant green, too. 

I got my inspiration from this beautiful wreath on Etsy:

Pumpkin Patch Wreath

If you'd like to make a wreath like mine, read on! 

First lets paint some pumpkins. Find some dollar store pumpkins. Paint some gold and then leave the rest orange. I used pumpkins that were all roughly the same size. Above you can see that I also "antiqued" the gold pumpkins as well. I love that look. 

I used gold spray paint to paint all the pumpkins gold first and then once dry, I used this water-based stain in Walnut. I got the idea to antique pumpkins from here, but my process was a little different since I used a different paint. 

 Paint your gold pumpkin completely with the stain and then use a clean paper towel to wipe off the stain where you don't want it. Let dry. Easy! 

Making the wreath is super easy too. 

This part is optional, but makes the wreath look clean and professional. Wrap the straw wreath form in strips of green fabric. (You only need half a yard.)

 Then use hot glue to attach moss to the front part of the wreath. There's no need to waste the moss on the back of the wreath since it's covered with the green fabric.

 Then simply glue on your pumpkins! If you want to add some berries, simply stick in some springs on the sides. I didn't even glue this part.

 

 Add a fun bow to the top. 

 And enjoy. :) 

Hope you love it!

I'll be linking this up to my favorite parties on my sidebar. 

Oh and I know that some of you may have thought I died...since I haven't posted in ever. But no worries-I've just had a lot going on at school and in life. More to come on that later. :) Have a fabulous rest of your week! 

Enjoying the Season

Oh, Fall. Your really are my favorite. 

I know I promised you a Hallween post. And you will have it. Soon. But instead of working on that project this weekend or on anything else I needed to do, Mr. Lovie and I pretended like we didn't have To Do lists that were millions of miles long and visited this gem of a place: Tom's Maze and Pumpkin Farm  in Germantown, Ohio.  Does anybody else do that? Pretend you don't have anything to do on the weekends even though you really do and go do fun stuff? Bad decision for our To-Do lists' sakes, but man oh man, it was worth it, though.

Just look at these beautiful pumpkins. And the weather was perfect. How could I say no?

The warty ones are my favorite.

Oh yeah, fun pumpkins.

Blue pumpkins for real.

Pumpkins bigger than your head! 

And they had a pumpkin launcher.

And we saw this thing shoot a pumpkin at least a 1/2 mile. It was nuts. We counted down and everything.

And we had to go through the maze. Don't forget to follow "The Cornmandments." Or else.

With 12 mazes total, you complete each one when you find the puzzle piece in the hidden mailboxes. We had a lot to go here! 

 :)

How fun would it be to bring friends or your family and race against each other?

 Still going...

 You can't really tell, but that part of the maze makes a butterfly. 

 We Did it!!

 Victory Bridge is now in sight.

 Maze Warriors.

 And I got a warty pumpkin.

Great Fall day. 

What are you doing to get out and celebrate the season and enjoy the weather this Fall?

Thanks for reading my off topic post. Back to crafts soon. :)
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