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Find endless ways to use fabric for crafts projects and home decorating. Get sewing tips, wall art ideas, quilt patterns, window treatment options, and more.

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Fast Fabric Facelifts

Check out these ideas -- each using a yard of fabric or less -- and get started with your own decorating redos.

"… by lining the glass panels with patterned fabric . On the back of each door, stretch the fabric over the glass and use a staple gun to fasten … Cut small squares of selected areas of the fabric and insert each into a frame pendant. Earring …"

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Fabric-Covered Boxes

… Spray adhesive White crafts glue Assemble Fabric -Covered Box 1. Measure each box area … measurements. 2. Cut pieces from desired fabric (s) and label each piece. For a softer … a well-ventilated area, spray each fabric piece with spray adhesive just before …

Sewing With Plush Fabric

Set your stitch length to approximately 8 stitches per inch when quilting plush fabric . This allows the thread to sink into the fabric . Use a lightweight, low loft batting. Try to avoid the corner intersections when quilting …

Fabric Shopping 101

… veteran quilters admit to a lifetime love of fabric . That love, however, doesn't necessarily … choose fabrics for a quilt or to add to a fabric stash. In fact, the wealth of fabrics … example. Other shops display best-selling fabric collections together. Many will group …

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Covered Canvas Art

This fast project idea takes only a canvas, fabric , and a staple gun. Plus, it's easy to change your style with each season.

Fri, 2 Mar 2007|More from Crafts & Projects
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Fabric is a great way to add color and pattern to a room, especially as affordable wall art. The next time you're at the fabric store, check out the sale bin. You'll be amazed what you can find for a discounted price on that rack. It's style by the yard. Look for fabric patterns that complement your room; stripes, graphic floral patterns work really great. Figure out what size of a canvas you want, and we're just gonna wrap the fabric around it. Cut the fabric , about maybe 2 inches wider than the canvas size that you need, and then align it from the reverse side. Try to find a leaf or a flower or stripe, so you can make sure your design is straight. Then you're gonna use a staple gun and wrap it similarly to how you wrap a package. Start at this end and staple just every few inches. Pull the fabric so that it's taut, but you don't wanna pull it so, so tight that you create these little ridges in it. That doesn't create a smooth look on the front. Do opposing edges first so that you get a nice smooth front, and you can do 1 frame like this, or you could buy 2 to 3 fabric coordinates, and hang a series of 3, and get your last staple in. Do this technique where you just pinch the edges together and then pull this corner, and just lay it down flat. Pull it straight into the center of the canvas. This will give you a nice smooth edge. It looks great from the front, rather than wrapping it and trying to square off the edges, which will layer your fabric too much and bunch up, and then the piece won't hang straight on your wall. Staple each edge here so that you

Boo-tiful Disguise

Change a chair into your favorite Halloween character. All it takes is a little fabric , felt, and imagination.

Sun, 23 Sep 2007|More from Holidays
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project. What you wanna do is you wanna start out with some fabric . You can either use a half a sheet. You can use remnant fabrics that are so cheap to get in a fabric store. And you take your dining room chair. You cover your chair with your fabric , and if it's a little too big, you cut it down a little bit, but you wanna make sure of, you wanna make sure that the chair is totally disguised under the fabrics. So there you go, we've got our chair covered. And what I've got here basically is a nice flat surface to put whatever face I want to, to give my chair a little character. So, I take the fabric off the chair, just keeping this flat so I know exactly where to put my face. And I've got this orange one laid out here. You can use any fabric you want. I chose orange for this one because I'm kind of doing a jack-o-lantern. And using felt, you can get this felt at any craft store; so cheap also. Draw on your face. You can do a jack-o-lantern. You could do a ghost. You could do a mummy. You could even do Elvis. You cut out the pieces of your face, and with some craft glue, you take a little bit of your fabric glue and put it on the back of here, like this. You don't need to use too much of this glue. In

Shadowbox Gallery

Get a simple rotating art gallery by placing pretty fabric swatches in photo shadowboxes.

Fri, 2 Mar 2007|More from Home & Garden
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Shadow boxes are great way to treat rotating art gallery using fabric . I'm gonna show you a technique that just uses velcro and foam core. So, you can pop your fabric out and change it with every season or whenever you are decorate. Just got a piece of foam core that fits inside

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Update Your Kitchen with Colorful Fabric

… countertop below. Just off the work core, a fabric -topped banquette updates the expected … wood are easy to update: Just change the fabric that tops your kitchen chairs or barstools. A few yards of fabric makes all the difference. Take a break …

Fresh Project Ideas for Fabric or Paper

… and stylish yet simple trim ideas. Buy fabric at cheap prices and craft an easy-to … the circular motif on the small-circle fabric by cutting large circles in assorted sizes … as you wish, and can be covered with fabric and ribbons that complement your room …

Window Treatment Fabric Picks

… curtain rods and hanger clips blend in with the white woodwork--keeping the fabric center stage. Fabric is from the Better Homes and Gardens Garden Fair collection Fabric name: Wicklow Color name: Passion To purchase: Joann.com or 888/739 …

Fabric Makeovers for Outdoor Rooms

Add pizzazz to a pergola with fabric panels. Curtains sewn from outdoor fabrics … provide an ideal place to hang outdoor fabric . This arrangement frames the yard, similar … cinched-up shade and chandelier. Hang the fabric from the ceiling and gather the ends stagecoach …

Window Treatment Ideas: Fabric Shades

… introduce just the right touch of a favored fabric . A fixed balloon can also conceal a shade … covers the bench cushion. The striped fabric belongs to the happy yellow color family … that make the space so comfortable. A fabric shade, mounted over a concealed cornice …

Easy Decorating Updates with Fabric

… patchwork throw, use one large square of fabric in the center, and cut and stitch large … much, give it a facelift with a modern fabric . Choose a pattern from your pillows or … then band the top and bottom in the same fabric or go for contrast with a companion print …