Saturday was our first winter-like day of the season. It was bitter and raining outside, and my winter instincts kicked in. All I wanted to do was bake, eat, watch movies and do crafts. Now that we are officially in November, I decided to try a little bit of fall decorating as we will be hosting my family for Thanksgiving this year. Our great room has a large fireplace and mantle where I have placed an antique stained glass window. I figured a Thanksgiving banner would be a great addition for the month.
Supplies
- scrap fabric, up to 1/2 yard depending on how many letters you want to do
- stencils
- paint
- garden string
- hot glue gun
- scissors or rotary cutter
- small piece of cardstock
1. Decide what message you want to display and cut out a 3" x 5" piece of fabric for each letter. I didn't have anything in my fabric scraps that had the exact texture I was looking for, so I used a lining fabric and a lace fabric and sewed them together with a quick stitch at the top.
2. I arranged the stencils over the fabric pieces and painted them with some leftover paint from a furniture project.
3. Once the paint dried, I took a small piece of card stock and made a triangular stencil so that I could mark off and cut a triangle in the bottom of the fabric.
4. I then took a generous length of garden twine, centered the letters on it with 1" space in between and hot glued the fabric to the string.
5. Then I attached to the back of the stained glass window and on the mantle. (Sorry for the terrible photo quality! It's so hard to get a clear photo with the windows on either side.)
It was a cheap and easy way to dress up the mantle, and I will probably make another one when the Christmas season arrives. For now, I love the daily reminder of where our blessings come from and to bring my thanks each day to the Lord.
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