Country Chic Door Hanger
What you need to make the door hanger
- ½ meter or ½ yard of plain fabric
- ½ meter or ½ yard of floral fabric
- 2 meters or 2 yards of ribbon
- 3 large beads
- Bag of stuffing
- Stabilizer Stitch and Tear
- Thin wadding
To stabilize the fabric I used the following
- Thin wadding and below the wadding I put the Stitch and Tear
Stitch out Country Chic_08 I used a pretty Liberty cotton fabric for the roof
Stitch out Country Chic_03 I used a fine cotton with a faded dark pink stripe fabric
Stitch in a straight stitch around the house and roof panel, this will mark the seam for you to cut out
Lay under the roof and house panel the fabric you would like for the backing.
Cut around the house, roof panel and backing fabric where you had straight stitched
Stitch the roof and house together then iron the seams flat
Stitch the house to the back leaving the base for stuffing
Fill the house with stuffing
Stitch the base, I just hand stitched
Stitch out Country Chic_05
Straight stitch around the heart for you to follow the seam
Using the same fabric for the front and back cut out the heart following your stitches for the seam
Stitch the hearts together leaving enough room for you to stuff the hearts
Make a bow and stitch the bow to the base of the house
I stitched on these large pearl beads, these are old pearl beads from a necklace my Mother-in-Law once owned, you can use whatever you have around the house or try searching dollar shops or Vinnies or one of those places near you
Using the same ribbon as the bow at the base of the house and hand stitch the hearts on the ribbon
Stitch the ribbon that has the hearts to the base of the house
Stitch a loop using the same ribbon and a bead onto the top of the roof
Country Chic Bag Holder
What you need to make the plastic bag holder
- ½ meter or ½ yard of cotton fabric for the house panel
- ½ meter or ½ yard of striped fabric
- Elastic 36 cm or 14 inches in length
- Ribbon for a bow
To stabilize the fabric I used the following
- Thin wadding and below the wadding I put the Stitch and Tear
Stitch out either Country Chic_01 or Country Chic_09 depending on the size of the hoop you have
Cut as close as you can to the satin stitch border, once you have cut all around the satin stitching with your scissors leave enough of the fabric where the straight stitches are so at a later time you can stitch a satin stitch.
Cut the striped fabric 65cm or 14 inches wide by 65cm or 14 inches long
hem both the top and bottom of the striped fabric
Fold the fabric in half-length ways, to the right of your fold find the centre and Stitch Country Chic_05 on the striped fabric
Cut elastic 36 cm or 14 inches long and 1 cm or 1 inch wide, I really do not think that it would matter how wide the elastic is
Using a zigzag stitch sew your elastic close to the bottom of the fabric
Stitch the side of the striped fabric and then iron the seams
At the top on both sides of the striped fabric find the centre
You can either pleat the striped fabric or gather which ever you prefer to be the same size as the green panel
Stitch the gathers or pleats down
Front panel
Back panel
Insert into the green panel the striped fabric and zigzag stitch the striped fabric to the green panel
Cut away the excess fabric from the zigzag stitches, satin stitch over the zigzag stitches, I satin stitched a couple of times
I had a velvet ribbon similar colour to the flowers and made a bow and hand stitched the bow in the centre, I feel this just gives the work a lovely finished look