It has officially become cold and wintery in Texas, and while I was staying in last weekend I decided to make a Thanksgiving themed banner to get in the holiday spirit. I got inspiration from Sew Caroline's Christmas tree banner that I mentioned before
I decided it would be fun to make a leaf banner with felt. I already had lots of fun colors in my fabric stash and leaf shapes drawn from my sweater weather drawing.
I made the leaves larger and used them as a template. You could do a quick sketch, or use actual leaves for a pattern. I chose different colors for different shaped leaves and planned out the order of the banner by color and shape of leaf. I just winged the top stitching with my machine for the vein detail on the leaves . I did at least 3 vein stitch lines for each leaf so it looks somewhat balanced.
I didn't have any neutral cotton ribbon so I just used the edge of some muslin selvage and stitched the leaves to my muslin strand.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone :)
