MAKE IT, LOVE IT! GARDEN PARTY
Make it, love it!
GARDEN PARTY Bring a personal touch to a spring celebration with handmade table decorations, place settings and games for the kids HAND-PRINTED TABLE RUNNER YOU WILL NEED Plain fabric table runner Paintbrush Green fabric paints Large leaf stamps Pink pom-pom trim Needle and thread
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Protect your working surface with newspaper, then lay a plain fabric table runner flat on top. Use a paintbrush to apply green paint to a large leaf stamp, then press it down firmly onto the fabric. Continue stamping along the length of the runner, spacing the prints out evenly. Repeat the process, making use of a second leaf stamp and different shades of green paint. Try mixing the paints to create more shades of green and continue to stamp, allowing the designs to overlap in places. Step back to look at your work then fill in gaps between the leaves with stamps until the surface of the runner is covered. Once the fabric paint is dry, cut pom-pom trim to the same length as the short ends of the table runner. Using co-ordinating thread, hand or machine sew the trim on the right side (top) of the runner so the tape creates a pink stripe at each end. Alternatively, if you prefer, sew the tape on the underside so only the pom-poms are visible.
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Go for colour-pop tableware
CREATE A COLOURFUL PRINTED TABLE RUNNER TO BRIGHTEN YOUR CELEBRATION Tulip fabric paint, £2.60 for 37ml, Hobbycraft. Similar birch leaf rubber stamp, £7.91, 100 Proof Press at Etsy
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