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Burlap Sun Welcome Door Hanger Using Fairfield World’s Poly-fil® Fiber Fill

Anything related to the sun makes me happy lately, so I decided that a burlap sun welcome door hanger on my front door would be the perfect touch of happiness! I’m a big fan of painted burlap door signs!

Materials used:

Burlap
Fairfield World’s Poly-fil® Fiber Fill
Wire
Wire cutters
Needle Nose Pliers
Paints (I used yellow and black paints from DecoArt)
Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Scissors
Paint Brushes
Permanent Marker
Pencil
A round object to trace a circle
A work area you don’t mind getting paint on (I used a plastic container lid)
Ribbon (I used sheer yellow ribbon and black raffia ribbon)

I did end up adding additional supplies after this photo was taken.

How I made it:

With my burlap folded in half like it came off of the bolt from the store, I cut about 30 inches for my sun and kept the burlap folded so that I would have 2 pieces of the same pattern after it was cut out.

Using a frisbee and a permanent marker, I traced a circle. TIP: You can use any round object to do the circle or you can just freehand one. This frisbee just happened to be the perfect size that I wanted. I freehanded the triangles of the sun.

Using my scissors, I cut the sun out leaving about half an inch around the lines.

I separated the two pieces of burlap and set the one that does not have the drawn sun aside. This one will be the back piece.

Using a bright sunny color yellow paint, I painted within the lines. TIP: I used an old plastic bin top that I didn’t care about anymore to paint my burlap on top of. Since burlap has holes in it, the paint seeps through and it’s easy to pull the burlap up after it dries.

With a pencil, I wrote out Welcome and then painted it with black paint.

Once the sun piece was dried, I put the two pieces back to gather, making sure to align them correctly.

I then hot glued the edges together, leaving one of the triangles open so that I could stuff it.

Then, I stuffed it full of Poly-fil® Fiber Fill, making sure to stuff the triangles as much as I could. I wanted the triangles to be stiff so they wouldn’t flop over.

Using wire cutters, I cut my wire to the length I wanted.

I pushed the wire through the back of the burlap, up through the front. Using needle nose pliers, I curled the ends so that it doesn’t back out of the burlap.

TIP: I hung my sign on my front porch and wasn’t happy with the length. It was too long, so I trimmed it with the wire cutters and curled the end again. It’s better to cut it a little longer, so that some can be cut off!

Using my marker, I retraced the circle and the triangles so that it gave it more of a whimsical sun look.

I also trimmed off all of the ragged edges to give it a cleaner edge look.

I actually went back and added a small layered bow!

Then it was ready to hang up!

Did you know Poly-fil® is made with recycled material that is re processed into Polyester and then extruded and expanded to make the Poly-fil® we all know and love!

Until next time….Happy Crafting!

Weighted Desk Sitter

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I’ve been really into making desk or shelf sitters lately, especially if it’s words of wisdom or kindness or a word of the year and these weighted desk sitters are perfect!. I created these two desk sitters, one for business and one for fun using Fairfield World’s Poly-fil® Poly-Pellets®! I can even use the one for business at vendor events by sitting it on my table; that way everyone will know how to find me on social media! They can even be placed on a shelf!

Materials used:

Fairfield World Poly-fil® Poly-Pellets®
Fairfield World Poly-fil® Fiber Fill
Cutting mat, ruler and rotary cutting tool
Kunin Felt Premium felt 12″x18″ craft cut: Olive, Candy Pink, Orchid
Kunin Felt Classic felt 9″x12″ craft cut: White, Minty, Brilliant Blue
Scissors
Fabric Glue
Sewing Machine and thread
Pins

How I made it:

Step 1: Cut the pieces needed to create the boxes. Two for the front and back, two for the sides and two for the top and bottom. You can make the box any size that you’d like.

Step 2: Using pins, pin the pieces together at the edges. For the green one, I pinned all of the pieces together except for the back. For the pink one, I pinned all of the pieces together except for the sides.

Step 3: Sew the pieces together. I did my stitches on the outside. You could do the stitches on the inside and then turn it right side out after you have stitched it. A two inch gap needs to be left opened so that it can be filled with the poly-pellets® and fiber fill.

Step 4: Once all of the sides are sewn, except for the 2 inch opening, pour the Poly-Pellets® into the opening. I filled it about half way.

Step 5: I filled the rest of box with Poly-fil Fiber Fill. I used the handy little stuffing tool to push the Fiber Fill to the sides and corners.

Step 6: Once it is stuffed to liking, the two inch gap gets sewn closed.

Step 7: Using either scissors or a dye cutting machine, cut letters to put on the box. I used my Glowforge laser to easily cut my letters. TIP: You can print out your letters on printer paper, cut them out and use them as templates for your felt.

Step 8: Use Fabric or Felt Glue to adhere the letters to the box and then let it dry flat.