Sunday, May 13, 2012

Pin It and Do It #3: Sewn paper garland

While I was helping my mother with our Mother's Day lunch preparations I decided to make some decorations for our table. I love paper crafts, so I decided to make this cute paper garland from Cocoa Daisy. I didn't have as many pretty papers as the original, but I was still happy with the result.
I didn't know you can sew paper. I still think I'll avoid it in the future if possible, because it was more difficult than one might think. All threads get tangled very easily and if you choose too thin paper you're in trouble. Good thing is that this garland is easy to storage: you can just fold it back and put it into envelope.



4 comments:

  1. Your table decorations are beautiful and so creative! Don't you love pinterset? I get so many good ideas from there!

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    1. Thank you! I do love Pinterest and I spend way too many hours there but it's a great source of inspiration.

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  2. It looks so pretty! I've only recently begun to see sewing on paper as part of scrapbooking and the result does look really pretty but I would imagine you'd have to make sure your stitch length was a bit longer than normal? I do a bit of paper piecing as part of quilting and the paper just rips apart when I'm done sewing.

    This would make pretty baby mobile, too!

    (please feel free to link these posts to the round-up!)

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    1. I'm sure some sort of mobile will definitely be one of my #pinitdoit projects. I have pinned dozens of mobile pictures! The sewing part was tricky, maybe it has to do with stich length like you suggested.

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