Monday, March 7, 2011

Hoopty-doo

So I know putting fabric in embroidery hoops and hanging them on the wall has been done to death in the crafting world, but I still love it.  So there.

We have a large wall in our dining room that had been blank for just way too long, so I finally decided to do something about it.

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First I pulled a myriad of scraps and prints from my collection.  There was really no rhyme or reason to why I chose what I chose - I just wanted it to be colorful while still meshing well together.

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Then I took all of my embroidery hoops and raided the ones from Phoebe's nursery as well and laid them out in a pleasing pattern on the floor.  Then I basically put the fabric in the hoops based on what scraps would fit into what hoops.

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Then I completely disregarded my initial diagram and started randomly nailing them to the wall.

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Until it looked like this!  I can still see a couple of holes where I'd like a few extra, but it will have to wait until I replenish my stash of wooden embroidery hoops.  Also, please disregard the terrible lighting fixture - that hasn't been replaced yet.

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On another note - I hit up an amazing estate sale this weekend.  So the spot in front of this wall isn't empty any longer.  I'll be back with a post about that later this week.

5 comments:

  1. LOVE how it turned out and how they pop on that lovey blue wall, nice work!! i'm thinking of doing this in my studio if i ever get to cleaning it up ;)

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  2. these look great. i was thinking about doing them in my new babies nursery.

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  3. you're killing me with this estate sale thing!

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  4. O Wow thats a great idea i love it and it didn't cost anything. You have your own unique art work its brilliant, well done you ;-)) dee x

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  5. I think that turned out really cool!!

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