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Make Your Home Dreamland (Part VI)

By : Sumona Das	Previous \| Next
Posted on : 22 Feb, 2006	Total Views : 345

6. Painting Bed Linens - Add your own artful trims and designs to bedding, pillows, and curtains. These small embellishments go a long way toward adding character to your belongings and personalizing your spaces. Perhaps the biggest payoff is the satisfaction it brings to create your own look.

Few Painting Bed Lines are The Rose Knows, Quick-Change Curtains, and Pillow Panache.

The Rose Knows - A painted rose garland softens the edges of the plain of duvet cover and for making this we need:

1. Self-adhesive vinyl

2. Plastic stencil

3. Spray adhesive

4. Fabric paint or acrylic crafts paint

5. Fabric-friendly conditioning medium

6. Paintbrush

Instructions:

1. To make a stencil for fabric, cut a motif from self-adhesive vinyl (used for shelf liners), or sprits the back of a plastic stencil with spray adhesive.

2. Then fill in the design using either fabric paint or acrylic crafts paint mixed with a fabric-friendly conditioning medium (all available at crafts stores). Preserve the design by following the paint manufacturer's heat-treating directions.

Quick-Change Curtains - Designed to mimic old-fashioned eyelet fabric, the metal O's create a modern look with no-sew ease.

Lay the plain curtains on a hard surface and arrange grommets into a pleasing random pattern. Cluster trios of small grommets together and leave larger ones floating singly. Mark the centers of the grommets on the curtain.
Following the manufacturer's directions, cut small holes on the marks and insert the grommet pieces. Snap them together with a grommet tool.

Available in all sizes and several metals, grommets and also called eyelets can be found in crafts, hardware, and fabric stores.

Pillow Panache - To create the top pillow on the stack cut a bucolic scene from toile fabric and position it in the center of a removable pillow cover. Use gimp zigzag stitched in place to frame it.

Here�s the Instruction

Give a pillow vintage charm using pearly buttons and a linen cocktail napkin (picked to fit the size of the pillow). Stitch buttonholes in the corners of the napkin to slip over shank-style buttons sew to the front of the pillow. Other quick-change options include crocheted doilies, printed tea towels, monogrammed napkins, or hemmed fabric remnants.

Beautify a pillow with a field of flowers and a dreamy, filmy slipcover. Pick your favorite silk posies and hot-glue them randomly on the pillow. Then, sew a sheer fabric, such as organdy, into a slip-on case with a graceful 3-inch flange.

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