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Checked pattern is a real classic: Here are 5 decoration ideas including instructions, with which you can bring the perennial in your four walls.
What you need for the tea warmer:
- gray felt (here: two pieces a ca. 12 x 25 cm, depending on the glass circumference)
- strong double sided tape
- Karoband (department store)
- scissors
And that's how easy it is:
1. Cut 12 cm wide strips from the felt, a little shorter than the circumference of the glass.
2. Stick the felt strip around the glass with strong double-sided adhesive tape and press firmly.
3. Fix with a bow made of checkerboard.
You need this for the stool with check pattern:
- Check Fabric (Department Store)
- Upholstered stool (from CarSelfbaumöbel)
- fabric scissors
- tacker
- Tackernadeln
And that's how easy it is:
1. Cut the fabric roughly to the size of the bench.
2. Place fabric over the bench and begin at the long edge in the middle. Twice the fabric hem and fasten it with the staple gun with three staple needles.
3. On the opposite side also fix the hemmed in hem with three staple needles in the middle. Tighten the fabric well.
4. Now place three needles in the middle of each of the two short sides.
5. At the corners, also stretch from the center to the corner, smooth in the fabric at the corner seam of the upholstery and tie it tight.
6. Screw in the furniture feet.
What you need for the storage pots with check pattern :
- Clay pots (garden center / hardware store)
- Napkin glue (craft shop)
- checkered cotton fabric
- fabric scissors
And that's how easy it is:
1. Brush the clay pot with glue.
2. Roll into the fabric and clean off excess fabric.
3. Leave 3-4 cm of fabric at the top and bottom. Cut in at regular intervals and turn in or out.
4. Smooth everything and brush over again with napkin glue.
What you need for the coasters with Vichy check :
- Sheet of paper (department store)
- Pencil (department store)
- Scissors (department store)
- Checked fabric in blue (department store)
- Bastelfilz in gray (department store)
- Cloth scissors (department store)
- Tailor's chalk (department store)
- Sewing thread in orange (Gütermann)
- pins
- Sewing machine and matching yarn
And that's how easy it is:
coaster
1. Draw a heart on a piece of paper and cut it out as a template.
2. Place the heart on the fabric / felt and transfer the contours with a chalk pen.
3. Cut out 2 fabric and 2 felt hearts each.
4. Place a fabric heart on a felt heart. Fix with pins.
5. Stitching contours with a zigzag seam.
table mat
1. Cut fabric into a rectangle of any size.
2. Iron edges inward twice, creating a clean edge.
3. Sew placemat around.
You need this for the homemade vases:
- Dekoband checked pattern in blue, light blue and orange (handicraft store / department store)
- double-sided adhesive tape
- scissors
- 1 ornamental quill branch
- 2 carnations in pink
- 3 yellow ranunculus
- 1 ranunculus in orange
- 1 ranunculus in pink
That's how it works:
1. Deco tape on the back with double-sided tape provided.
2. Stick ribbons around the vases, possibly fix with a bow.
Props: Vase in white asymmetric: About: www.maxwellandwilliams.de, Parts carafe 1, 2l white € 29.95 incl. 19% VAT, free delivery from 50 € Item number: RV0030.
