Wired Sailboat Sail

I needed some sailboats for my table decor for our nautical dinner. So, when I saw these sailboats on the sites listed below and wanted to make some.

Sailboats supplies:

*4-5 different Fabrics
*Fusible Webbing- iron-Pen to trace pattern onto web paper
*White Natural Batting
*Scissors
*Embroidery Floss (I used Ecru)
*Needle
*Wood Skewer
*Heavy Duty Scissors or wire type cutters
*Wire 22 Gauge
*Fabric Punch
*Grommets (optional)
*Wood Ball/Bead (optional)
*Low Temp Glue Gun
*Foam Noodle (cut 1 1/ 2 inch slice of noodle and cut in half. Place in side made boat and glue to attach to the bottom of boat. You can cover noodle slice with fabric just make sure you use low temp glue gun or noodle foam will melt.)
*4 Buttons
*Crochet Thread 3

Whip Stitch the boat pieces together and along top of boat.

Blanket stitch around sails or use wire and use a rolled hem around the wire as you stitch hem.

You can find how to make similar boats here annwood and here makinglifewhimsical

You can make these boats as simple or as complicated as you like by the way you want to dress them up.

Blanket Stitched Sailboat

I hope you will make some too!

Lindy

DIY Nautical Mantel

If you are like me, then you like to change out your decorations each month. The month of June I like to find nautical ideas for my home.

Even though A Lake is near where we live it is difficult to find things that are affordable or reasonable to make, so I’m always looking for some good ideas to make decorations. If you live by the ocean you probably have plenty of free shells, drift wood, Nautical items.

Here is where I’ve found some of these ideas to help decorate my home. misskopykat And lifebuoywreath

I found the welcome sign at Jo Ann’s and the other things are from dollar stores, craft stores, etc.

Nautical Rustic Wreath

You will need:

*Dollar store swim tube/noodle

*Packing Tape to tape tube together

*1 roll of Cream Burlap Wired Ribbon – 7 yards (You don’t need to have the wired kind.) I got this from Wal mart.

*Natural polished Hemp around 3 feet or other rope you have on hand

*Cheese Cloth White or tea dyed (4 strips to wrap around wreath tube/noodle.)

*2-3 pins to pin burlap to wreath

Begin by taping swim tube/noodle in a circle shape. Then start wrapping the burlap around the wreath tube and pin at the end on the backside of wreath.

Make a circle with the piece of Rope/Hemp, a little larger than the size of the tube and tie ends of Rope /Hemp together. Wrap the cheese cloth strips around the tube in four places. (See the pictures.) I tied my strips in the back with a knot.

Tie a piece of jute at the top in a loop if you wish to hang-up wreath on door, etc.

Decorate with any Nautical decor.

As you can see I didn’t finish off the tops of the Faux Wood Bundles, but you can cover them too.

I hope you will make some of these projects. Be sure to visit the above blog to learn how to make these Faux Wood Bundles.

Enjoy!

Lindy