Coming along

The birthday banner is coming right along. I picked out my fabric, created a scallop template, traced it with chalk on all my fabric, and I printed out my letters. You are supposed to use this freezer paper stenciling technique. Well, after about an hour and a half of cutting out all the letters I realized that I was using wax paper, not freezer paper. This will not stick to your fabric because it is waxy on BOTH sides. I was very distraught, but eventually decided to just use the cutouts I'd made to trace the letters on to my fabric with pencil. It worked! It may not look as neat and tidy as it would have with the stencil, but who wants a project to go all perfectly?

I was up forever late last night putting two coats of fabric paint on my letters and hanging them to dry. I hung them all up on clothespins on a line in the dining room. It already looks adorable, even on big uneven squares of unhemmed fabric. There's still a lot to do though. I'm so excited, but there won't be a public reveal on my blog until after the berfday party. Oh, I meant to share something about fabric paint. You know how you can usually only find the Tulip brand paint in the terrible little nozzle bottle and can only get it in slick, puff, or glitter? Well, there's a fabric medium that you can buy to add to any acrylic paint to make it adhere and set to fabric. The bottle was the same size as a small bottle of acrylic craft paint and cost only a little over a dollar. That's way less expensive than fabric paint and much more convenient. Okay, off to get some work done. I have a very full day today.