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Décor It Yourself
Hello from Brooklyn and welcome to the Décor It Yourself Episode 13
We had accessorized ourselves with an apron and I do not want my dining room table to feel left out. So this week we will accessories our tables by making our own placemats. This use them of my left over fabric, I am going to make a mix match to set.
First choose your fabric, and choose whatever shape you would like. A circles, square, heart shaped, whatever you fancy. And with your scissors, cut out your shape on one piece of fabric. Make sure it is symmetrical by folding in half or in fourths. Then cut identical shapes out of the rest of your fabric. Now, choose a fabric big enough to the line the back. Lay your placemat cutouts on the lining, good side down and pin into place. Now, carefully cut your pieces out. When you have your placemats, cut and pinned good sides together, you will now start to sew. Pick your thread color and sew your pieces together leaving an opening about 4 to 5 inches. Do this all of your placemats.
Once sewn together, turn your placemats right side out and smooth out the edges. Now, take your opening and fold the top down and pin together. Pin down the edges of your fabric to make it easy to sew a nice clean top stitch around the top. You will add one or two top stitches about a centimeter away from the edge. Now steam out your finish placemats and you now have a great set of placemats to accessorize your table.
And when we return, we have a ton of awesome viewer submissions from you.
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Here are some awesome projects from you guys. Check out Edee’s dress apron. So adorable. Kiddy Blue took her dim skirt and made this cool apron. And Glitterimage, we created the vintage apron I wore on the show. It is like looking in the mirror girl. I love Annabel13’s cork trivet and Spongelevel11’s menu is a great table accessories. What is on that menu? Cream cheese cupcakes cooked up by TimidGothica and minesweeper. You can find that recipe and really cool to décor ideas at www.HowAboutOrange.Blogspot.com.
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Punk 2021 blew me you away with this awesome wall mural. You can check out this adorable detail, love bombs.
This weeks quick tip, start a collection of Vintage pitchers. Always great to have on hand to use as a vase or to serve guests. You can never have too many.
Be sure to send us footage of your home décor products to enter our Toolbox Contest. See you next week. Do not forget your nest needs you.
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