Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop - Mother's Day

Welcome to the Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop for the month of May. This month we are celebrating Mother's Day (or Birthdays.)

My mother was an excellent seamstress and taught me to sew at a young age. Thank you mom! So to celebrate Mother's Day, my project is a wreath made up of various, vintage sewing notions.

On this wreath are vintage button cards, spools, tomato pincushions, strawberry needle cleaners, snaps, sewing needle cards and two measuring tapes. Everything used to create this wreath has been thrifted. Here are some detailed images.

If you looked real closely you might have noticed that the filler material between all of the vintage notions is actually die cut pieces of a sewing pattern. The following is a tutorial to make the basic wreath.

To make the wreath, I used the Sizzix Frame, Circle Scallop die and cut scallop circles out of a sewing pattern. 

Using thrifted straight pins, I pinned scallop circles around the wreath form.

I used about 1 1/2 sewing patterns to create enough scallop circles to cover this wreath. Once the basic wreath is created then you can decorate it any way you like. Some other decorating ideas might be large buttons, lace or ribbon. If you want to make the wreath permanent then I suggest hot gluing all of the parts. I chose to pin my vintage pieces onto the wreath.

Happy Mother's Day to all of the wonderful moms out there. Please continue to hop through the Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop using the button on the right.

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Maybe Matilda's

Cherished Treasures

SNAP!

                                                            

All Thumbs Crafts/Sunburnt Cow

Marvelously Messy

Rook #17

                                                    

A Girl and a Glue Gun

The 36th Avenue

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4Rs, A Little Knick Knack, All Thingz Related, Between Naps on the Porch, Blue Creek Home, Blue Cricket Designs, Brambleberry Cottage, Cherished Treasures, Chic on a Shoestring Decorating, Coastal Charm,  Common Ground, Craft Envy, Creating a House of Grace, FaveCrafts, Finding Fabulous,  French Country Cottage, Homemaker on a Dime,  I {heart} Naptime,  Inspiring Creations, It's a Very Cherry World,  Keeping It Simple, Krafty Kat,  LollyJane, Lovely Crafty Home, Making the World Cuter, Marvelously Messy,  My Romantic Home, My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia, Paisley Passions, Passionately Artistic, Rook No. 17, Running With Glitter, Savvy Southern Style, Sew Can Do, Simply Designing,  Singing Three Little Birds, Skip to My Lou, Someday Crafts, Somewhat Simple, Sunburnt Cow, Tales from Bloggeritaville, Tatertots and Jello, The Colorado Lady, The DIY Home Sweet Home Project, The Girl Creative,  The Shabby Chic Cottage, The Shabby Nest, The Thrifty Groove, The Thrifty Home, The Trendy Treehouse, Thirty Sixth Avenue, Truly Lovely, Under the Table and Dreaming, What Allie's Making Now and Wildflowers and Whimsy