I wanted to have some fabric strawberries hanging in my
living room so I decided to make some. They are so quick and easy. I wanted to
make one with printed fabric but all I had was some tea dyed solid feed sack
fabric. So I decided to give it a printed look with stamps. You can run fabric
through the printer but some fabric is too thin. The feed sack fabric I have is
way too thin to run through. So here is what I did.
Step 1 – Making the strawberry. All you have to do is cut a
piece of freezer paper in the shape of a triangle with two long sides and one
short. The size of the triangle is up to you. You can make it 3”or 13”. The one
I made is 4” long. So cut your shape and set it aside.
Step 2 – Stamping the fabric. I wanted a background. So I
stamped that first. I used a large script stamp. Then I added other pictures on
top of that. You can use regular stamps and ink, the same kind you would use
for paper. Place the pattern on the fabric so you know where to start stamping.
Cut your fabric in a square large enough to fit your pattern. Ink up your
background stamp and lay the fabric on it and press down. Now do it to a second
piece of fabric. Remember the stamped side is now your right side of the
fabric. With right sides together place your pattern on the fabric. If you hold
it up to the light you can see the stamped image and place the pattern where
you want it. Now iron your freezer paper pattern on your fabric, SHINNY SIDE
DOWN, sew around the pattern leaving the short side open. Peel pattern off, cut out around sewing line
and turn to the right side. Stuff your strawberry and then hand stitch a
running stitch around the opening so you can pull it tight and gather it closed.
Knot it off.
Step 3 - Make the top of the strawberry by just drawing a
star on the wrong side of whatever fabric you want, cut it out. We are not
going for a perfect star; you don’t want the points to be exactly the same. Cut
out your star and glue it to the top of the strawberry. This will cover where
you gathered it. I just use the white craft glue in the gold bottle.
Step 4 – Make a wire loop for hanging. If you are going to
be putting your berries in a bowl skip this step. I wanted mine hanging. Cut a
piece of wire about an inch and a half long. Fold it in half and twist the two
ends together, I used needle nose pliers for this. Poke a hole in the top of
the berry, I used a craft knife. Put a touch of glue on the wire loop and stick
the end that is twisted into the hole. I used tea stained string to hang them. If
you want you can sew your ribbon or string to the top of the berry.
I made 3 strawberries; two out of homespun and one stamped
and hung them on an old stuffed feed sack. I also did this with hearts.
You can use any shape you want and any fabric
and just stamp it. Thanks for reading and if you have any questions please give
me a shout.
Thanks, Faith
