Rainy Day Crafts

I've had a little time to do some crafts as Irene will be hanging out in our immediate area soon. I'm deciding to craft a few things. I am constantly being inspired by Poppy Talk, but who isn't? My eyes fell upon this banner and I loved it and knew I needed to make one for myself especially since I wanted to buy some cute wall art for our bedroom..

..here..

I knew that I have plenty of left over fabric and came up with a sweet quote:

"You are the warmest embrace"

I asked my sweet boy for a quote and he said something along these lines:

"Scrody Balls"

It was a toss up but I chose my quote, I hope you can support my tough decision..

So here is what I did:

..Took a piece of scrap fabric and trimmed to make a nice rectangle..

..sewed all sides so that there was no unsightly fraying..

..left a short side to sew last and made room for a rod to fit through for hanging..

..ironed the fabric {it was super wrinkly}..

..taped two knitting sticks {..I gave up on knitting} together to make a rod..

..cut out letters with a handy exacto knife..

..hung it up with tacks to stay in place..

It was kind of hard to take a good picture of it because the flower fabric made the smaller letters harder to see. I think next time I would use a solid colored fabric. 

Thanks for visiting! Let me know if you try this out!

-Lo