A friend gifted me a huge bag of Acorns that dropped around campus==these are nice fat acorns! I set out to make fabric acorns for house decorations and gifts for friends. First, I baked all the shells--who wants any bugs in their decorations?! Once, they had cooled, I set about make a pattern for these interesting accents. The first ones I made were with plaid cotton fabric, not happy with those, I remembered I had a box of wool scraps--let's get cutting and deciding how to go about this.
I used a 3" circle--worked great. Cut many circles
Cut slits even around by marking in half each way
Folded in half and stitch a dart
By sewing in each quarter, you have an acorn top--then
I wanted to do a short cut and decided not to cut the slits
And just folded the circle in half and sewed the dart in each direction--
that way worked too and saved some time. Next step was to sew a gathering
stitch around the circle, pull up, stuff with fiber fill, pull up thread,
glue inside acorn half and place top--
There you have it!! My acorn decorations for fall--
Was thankful my friend gifted me with these--in
turn I gifted her with a small basket stuffed with these goodies!
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