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Tutorial: Appliqued Fall Wreath Pillow

This quick project can help you bring a bit of the fall color inside your home!

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finished simply color wreath

Hey guys, so funny how I said I would be back on Wednesday with a fall how to… and here it is Thursday. well we had some technical difficulties over here yesterday called “life” and I spent most of my day shuffling children from dentist and doctor appointments that by the time I finally sat down to work on things. Kids were walking through the door. So, here we are a day late and a dollar short, but it’s all good cause we’re still in the middle of fall! This fall wreath ‘how to’ is a super fast project you can get done while in between things.

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So in this project I will be using methods I’ve talked about in the past. where ever you see a link, it will open a new window with the “how to” that I am referring to and that will help you finish this project. 🙂

Okay, so lets first talk about the materials needed:

  • leaf template found here
  • jelly roll strips 2 1/2″ x 42″ (roughly 3 strips should get you 21 to 24 leaves) of simply color ombre orange
  • 1 jelly roll strip of simply color ombre green (just to add some different color!)
  • a medium sized bowl mine is a Martha Stewart bowl with the mouth width of 7 1/2″
  • erasable pen I used the pilot FriXion ball pen
  • no more than 1/2 yard of linen fabric (*depending on the size of your circle cut your linen to fit your wreath, mine measured 15″ x 13″)
  • pellon wonder-web 807
  • poly fill
  • iron
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I folded my fabric in half to show you me where the middle of the fabric was. I placed my bowl onto the fabric with the line down the middle. (if you are a perfectionist and want to fold and make a crease from side to side so you can place the bowl even more perfectly, go right ahead. but as you know me when crafting some of these things i just eyeball and half A my way through and call it good…)

Now you are going to draw the circle onto your linen. I used a Martha Stewart bowl with the mouth width of  7 1/2″ and next you will need to get your fusible webbing and your fabric strips. Cut the webbing to be the same size as the strip of fabric.

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After you have turned over all your petals and you have gently pulled out the tips of your leaves with your pin, place your leaves onto your drawn circle. Play around with the placement, use my picture as your guide. I placed them in threes and overlapped them a little.

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When you like your placement, and with your iron set to high, adhere your leaves onto the linen. but please be careful to pay attention to place your iron onto the NO STEAM mode because steam will melt the surrounding leave’s webbing before you adhere it to the linen. (just speaking for experience people)

To finish as a pillow:

  • cut either linen or muslin the same size as your finished front.
  • stuff with polyfill