For my first craft tutorial I'm going to show you how to turn these......
......into THIS!
Since I've been hanging at home 24/7 for the last few weeks, I've managed to seriously get some cleaning and rearranging and reorganizing done. I guess that's one OK thing about being jobless for a few weeks. All the things I'd been putting on the back burner forever got finished....that included cleaning out, rearranging and reorganizing our spare bedroom/office/storage room/eventual baby's room and it's closet.
For those that are unaware, we live in a house that was built around the late 1950's early 1960's. It's a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom brick house....ooh next post idea!!....anyway it doesn't have much in the way of storage space, and the attic has an unfortunate mouse issue :( The spare bedroom had turned into the catch all room that had no real reason to it. So I finally got brave one afternoon, put on my organizing/cleaning britches (yes, I have a pair of britches just for cleaning and organizing) and went to work.
I came across 5 bags of my husband's old clothes from when he was a size 29 around the waist (he's gone up slightly.....to like a.....36...ain't marriage fun??) and still wore a small t-shirt. Why I was hoarding all these old clothes I don't know. Why they hadn't made it to Goodwill....it escapes me.
Shamefully I unpacked some boxes of my stuff that I had yet to unpack from when I moved....2 years ago.... and was left with 3 large cardboard boxes. So I emptied the bags of clothes and packed them into the boxes...at least they could be stacked until I made it back into the "big city" to a Goodwill. As I was packing I was thinking "you know I should use all this fabric for something. It's not like he's ever going to want to wear them again!! But I kept packing. And then it hit me as I closed the top on the last box I could make a scrap fabric wreath. Now he hard part was finding the colors I wanted to use. I wanted green, yellow, pink and blue...I was thinking more pastels, but this is what I came up with....
The green and the white are some of MY old clothes that I ran into. (I promise, that's pink not red.)
Ok, so here's what you do, after you pick out the clothes you want, cut them up into strips a couple of inches long (no longer) and about an inch wide. I varied width on mine just to give it a bit of variety. Then I used scissors and plyers (the needle-nose were the only ones I had on hand, but they worked great) to turn my wire coat hanger into a circle. You could turn it into a square, triangle, Easter egg shape.....any shape you can get out of a wire hanger....
Then chose your "base color." I ended up having more green than anything, since it was a shirt and had more fabric. I even ended up with a bunch of leftovers for another project on a rainy day. And I tied them in in a simple knot....like this.
I hung my hanger up on my kitchen cabinet so I could tell more easily where to place my fabric.
Once I had my hanger stuffed with green fabric I added my yellow, then blue, then pink and then finally the white. I fluffed and rearranged and fluffed some more until finally I had this.......
I'm seriously happy with how it turned out, but I wish I had something along the lines of a small "R" to put in the center or something....when I visited the craft section at walmart the last time I was there they were out :( Anyway, this took me a few hours, cutting out all the strips and all, but I say it was very well worth it. When my husband came home that night he rang the doorbell (I keep the doors locked when he's not home, my dog is spunky but she's not much of a "guard dog,") and when I opened the door he was standing there staring at the wreath. "I liiiiike." He said. Hahaha.
Now I have a ton of green, pink, yellow, blue and white fabric strips left over....wonder what I can make next time!!!
HAPPY CRAFTING!
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