I absolutely love this Patchwork Quilt Shabby Chic Candle Votive. You can use scraps of vintage fabric and end up with a fun and shabby chic candle votive that will look good in any room.
To Make a Patchwork Quilt Shabby Chic Candle Votive You Will Need:
Scraps of retro fabric, vintage fabric, or shabby chic fabric
Lightweight fusible interfacing
Heavy duty thread in a fun color
Needle
Pinking sheers
Glass cylinder shaped jar, candle votive, or drinking glass.
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Take your scraps of vintage fabric can iron them to some fusible interfacing. Use white interfacing.
If you have a whole piece of retro fabric or shabby chic fancy you can iron that on as well, you do not have to just use scraps, especially if you want to make a bunch of these Patchwork Quilt Shabby Chic Candle Votive.
Let the fabric cool and use some pinking sheers to cut out small one inch squares of the different scraps of fabric.
Measure how far around your glass base is and how tall 2/3’s of the height is. This is avow tall and wide you need to make your design of small patchwork scrap fabrics.
Lay you little one inch squares of fabric out in any pattern you want, making a rectangle that is wide enough to wrap around the candle votive.
Now, use your heavy duty thread or even some thin twine to sew the corners of the squares together. Simple place one of the four corners near another corn of a square ad sew them together. Do this loosely and do not sew the sides. Repeat this until all of the squares have been tacked together to front the rectangle.
Tip: You could also sew a button on the corners to hold the tiny patch work squares together loosely. Use small buttons and you can really display quite a few.
Now, fold in the two sides of the Patchwork Quilt Shabby Chic Candle Votive together and start tacking the corners of those squares together to form a cylinder.
Tim off any loose threads and you are ready to slide your Patchwork Quilt Shabby Chic Candle Votive cover on the glass base.
The small openings you left will allow some light to escape and make a pretty glow in your home.
If you are worried about fraying, then apply some no fray to the cut edges of your shabby chic patchwork quilt squares.
For more interest you could also sew one vintage button in the middle of every other square. If you do this though, do not use the buttons on the corners!
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