Tired of snow, rain or otherwise gloomy winter weather? Cheer up. This happy orange pillow tutorial will bring you into a good mood again. Dazzling ruffles are fast to produce on this easy-as-pie pillow.

The tutorial ::

Felt Rosette Pillow

Step-by-step Instructions

1. cut circles

2. fold them twice and secure each rosette with two stitches near the center circle

3.Attach each rosette with a few stitches onto the pillow top. Line the ruffled flowers up, not too close, not too dense.  You’re done when you’ve covered the entire front of your felt pillow.

4. Attach the pillow back to the front, leaving an opening for filling.  Consider kapok for the reasons spelled out here.  Hand sew the closure with a few push pins, or if you are making this in white and want to wash it frequently, add a zipper at the pillow back.

Felt Furnishings

This happy ruffles pillow is one of many projects in this wonderfully creative book:   Felt Furnishings: 25 Accessories for Contemporary Homes . Get your own book for only $5 and cents!

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More Pillow Patterns & Ideas

Kapok as ideal Pillow Filling – learn more about this filling

Sew a Wild Scrappy Pillow – art quilting at its most fun (see right)

Pillow Patterns – crochet, knitting, quilting, felt and other

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Wishing you all Joy & Happiness, Togetherness & Harmony, Love * Fun on this Special Day of Thanksgiving with the family.

THANKSGIVING RECIPES

This succulent, full-flavor turkey bird doesn’t’ require brining… Now good is that?

 Dry-Cured Rosemary Turkey

Image: Monica Buck, for Sunset

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I came across this husky centerpiece and fell in love with it. It’s so simple, elegant and appropriate.    I bet that the shine through the husk leaves is wonderful. The mix of the luxurious velvet ribbon with the simple husks is just perfect. As such, the ribbon is both a functional and a design element. Anyone with a hurricane in the house (and that makes just about all of us) is eligible for this seasonal make-over!

What a beautiful centerpiece to have for the Thanksgiving holiday table!!!

The picture is just for inspiration. I am planning to make (a version of) this centerpiece for the holidays for our home.  What I like about it is that the husks do not need any tending too, and the whole work of art is good till XMAS, if not beyond.I have no idea if Indian corns are expensive, so I have to look into that.

How-to Step-by-Step Instructions

If you want to make this exact holiday table centerpiece, follow these simple instructions:

1. 1.Measure your hurricane and work out how many corns you’ll need. You can find these at the farmers markets in Fall, at premium craft shops and perhaps even faux-versions of them at your dollar store.  The picture contains 16 bottom-cut corns, and 32 corn leaves.
2. When you have bought the corns,  take off the leaves (but save 32 leaves or a few extra),
3. Cut the corn bottoms flat, stick them on a craft pin or any skewer that allows you to hold them while you them with spray paint, and while they dry.  The pix shows a copper paint, but I think it would look just as nice in silver, white, or even light moss green or a pastel-version of burgundy (what’s that color called?).
4. Hot glue the cobs and add the leaves. Hot glue them all together, all around the glass.
5. Tie the ribbon, and voila.

Photo: © Lisa Hubbard / Woman’s Day

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Let’s plan ahead.  This Thanksgiving I would like to have a number of people over for dinner. As this is a bit daunting to me, I usually like to have all the small details, such as the artsy & crafty decorative elements as well as the main dish to be made well ahead of time.

So, here then are the inspiration for this year’s name cards.  Designer Linda from LindaMade just put these together in a whim. They came out great, and I’d like to use her tutorial as an input for our own set of cards. 

Incidentally, I think it makes total sense to make a set of cards that are non-themed and truly whimsical that would work year round and have them on hand for any kind of (smaller) dinner party. That way spontaneous dinner parties on Sunday can also look glam.

Materials

- Scrapbook paper: in solid colors and in patterns. Tip: 8 x 8” paper is most practical & economical, as each card is a square of 4×4”.
- Ruler
- Scissors with straight & decorative edges

- Pre-cut/self-cut felt flowers, paper flowers, or flower stickers

- Sewing machine
- White Gel Pen or letter stamps and white pigment ink

Color Choice is Key to Seasonality

Tip: to Choose a celebratory Fall Color scheme to make these suitable for a Thanksgiving Dinner party. If you happen to come across this post in July, you can use beach shell motives with pastel blues, greens, ochres and whites instead.

Step-by-Step Project Tutorial

Step 1: Cut 4″ x 4″ squares from patterned scrapbooking papers to the number of table place setting cards you’ll need.

Step 2: Fold each square in half, so that the place cards can stand up.

Step 3: Now, cut an equal number of 3.5″ X 1″ rectangles from  solid craft papers with decorative scissors. These smaller rectangles will be used to write the names on.

Step 4:  For each card, center your solid-colored rectangle over the bottom-half aka the front half of your folded square. Look at the picture.

Step 5: Next comes the fun bit: laying out the flowers. Place them on top of your double-rectangles into a pleasing arrangement. Leave a good piece of the solid rectangle open so that there’s still room for (long) names.

Step 6: Put it all together under your sewing machine needle and stitch around the name rectangle with a long stitch.

TIP: If you’re nervous about the flowers and papers moving while you sew, you may secure them with a glue stick, just make sure the glue dries before you sew so your needle won’t get sticky.

source: image / idea: Linda Made, who made these cards exclusively from upcycling materials already found around the house.

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Great decorating idea for thanksgiving is making these seed balls. An inexpensive craft project with the kids, or even just all by yourself, having fun being creative.

image: bhg.com

Symbolic Meaning

Cornucopia, the overflowing horn, is an ancient symbol of abundance, and the seeds can represent both the seeds of change as well as the harvest and abundance source for renewal. From a simple interior design point of view, these seed balls make for a great, lasting color splash that stays a long time as table centerpiece.

Great idea for Fall and Thanksgiving.

How-to

• Materials; Foam or other balls; variety of beans & seeds, paint & glue
• Paint balls in colors of seeds/beans & let dry
• Glue on seeds. Bigger seeds need stronger glue and will be harder to work with.
• See ‘which glue to choose for the project’

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Win a unique, personalized prize by participating in this special Holiday Crafts linky party.

Call for Holiday Crafts:
Submit Your Best Project Plans

WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO THIS YEAR FOR THE HOLIDAYS?
I love to hear about YOUR BEST craft projects, and so I am doing a contest / round-up of what craft projects you are/will be doing during the holidays this year.
 
It is an opportunity for you to showcase your art and craft. I’m sure many readers would love to see your work also. So, what is that favorite craft project that you’ve done/are doing this year?
 

Best Holiday Crafts

Your Best Holiday Crafts – How to Submit

Submit your links below in the linky party. All qualifying posts must include at least one picture and instructions/explanations showcasing your work of art. Perhaps you like to include a free tutorial or a range of ideas for the people who will visit your site. You can submit up to ten holiday craft projects, and the linky will stay open from now till the Christmas – New Year period.

Grab Your Batch & Stand on Your Soapbox

On your blog, please feature your submission in your blog post, show your ‘Holiday Crafts’-badge and link back to this post, so your readers can join in as well!

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Not into XMAS just yet, but made something beautiful and wrote a tutorial for it?

Show it to our readers so that they can find your blog at our other, ongoing, themed  DIY craft tutorials party.

Contest Prizes

The first, second and third prize winners all get to choose your own, personalized ‘Valentine’ cards. I will design them just for you, in your favorite colors.

You will be able to download for free and print them on your own color printer, over and over again (as long as it’s for personal use).

 
These will be exclusive designs and not be made available to others! How do you like that!? 

The official deadline is December 20th, however, I’m planning to showcase some interim favorite submissions, … for inspiration.

 
Good Luck and I look forward to hearing from you and seeing all those great project. I can’t wait!

Christmas In July

 
(Christmas In July post #2.
Click here for Christmas in July post #1 with free clipart for you)

 

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You have lots to be grateful for…
Love to you all!

Enjoy my 10-minute-recycled sock craft! It’s so easy, you don’t need a craft tutorial. Just look at the pumpkin picture. A bit of twine and a rolled-up orange sock will do!

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Time for the DIY CRAFT TUTORIAL LINKY PARTY.  Next Wednesday I will showcase the ‘best of’ contributions in the last few DIY Craft linky parties. Today, I’ll be keeping it short and sweet.

Party Etiquette

1. Place a link below to your tutorial and …

2. Kindly link back.

3. Graciously visit with others and learn about their projects. Partying is sharing.

4. Leave a kind comment, such as ‘your favorite project in the party’.

5. You can leave more than one tutorial link but please no items for sale; just tutorials.

Click in the textbox, select all, copy & paste.

My Craft Contribution This Week

This Free & Easy Christmas Wreath
Can be made
in just an hour.
Kids will love helping.

& Beautiful
Will cost you $0

Great holiday gift

Perfect Office XMAS project,
as you need: copy paper, a bit of cardboard
+ sticky tape/glue, (ribbon optional).

YOUR CONTRIBUTION

Thanks for your TUTORIAL contribution. Please DO leave a comment also!!! Tell us which project you’ve visited and liked the best.

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It seems that I start designing with the unconventional and them move on to create a really good traditional version of things.

I did this with the free Thanksgiving wallpapers, moving from unconventional to conventional, and now I find myself doing the same thing here with these free Thanksgiving coloring pages.

With the creation of this really adorable turkey – I am happy how it came out, we now have 4 coloring pages, free for you to print and to have nearby during Thanksgiving dinner for wandering minds who want to play, while they are supposed to sit down and eat dinner… OR when they are waiting for the plane to arrive OR when they sit for hours in the car OR …. well, you name the time when you need good coloring pages… :

Turkey (easy coloring page)

Scarecrow (intermediate)

Winnie the Pooh (intermediate)

Peace Mandala (difficult coloring page)

To download your free thanksgiving coloring page, simply sign up with us (see top left of this page) and you’ll receive an email with the links to many excellent free craft projects.

Here is my colored version of this simple coloring page. ‘Simple’ does not mean boring… it means… opportunity for more individual creativity. It also means that kids all ages can use the coloring page.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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