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As I find new and interesting crafts, I will pass them on to you. I hope you enjoy making some of these crafts for yourself and as gifts for others. Are you ready to check out these four crafts I have for you?

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Autumn Wreath

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If you've got your things together now, we're going to make an Autumn straw wreath decked with autumn-colored fabric leaves, bows, and wheat to add a festive note to Fall. The wreath would enhance any door, wall, or tabletop, and the individual leaves can also be used as drink coasters. As coasters, the leaves would look equally attractive in lovely shades of green for year-round use.

SIZE: 14" in diameter

MATERIALS:

1/4 yard each of the following 36"-wide solid-color fabrics: gold, medium brown, light brown, and orange.
1/2 yard 36"-wide tan calico
1/4 yard 36"-wide gold calico
Polyester batting
A ready-made 14"-diameter straw wreath
Brown thread
Straight pins
Fusible webbing
Fine-gauge wire
Adhesive tape
20 assorted dark and light wheat stalks
A large T-pin

EQUIPMENT:

Knitting needle, pinking shears

1. Preparing the pattern and cutting the leaves.
Draw lines across the pattern given below (enlarge pattern and print out) to complete the grid. On white paper, rule a similar grid of 1/2" squares. Draw in the half-leaf pattern.
Fold the gold calico in half lengthwise, right sides together. Using dressmaker's carbon and a dry ball-point pen and aligning the dash line of the pattern along the fold of the fabric, trace four leaves. Adding 1/4" around the outlines for seam allowances, cut out the leaves. Similarly, trace and cut out the following leaves: four of tan calico, four each of solid gold and dark brown, two of solid orange, two of solid light brown, and ten of batting.

2. Stitching and attaching the leaves.
To make each leaf, pin two matching fabric pieces right side together, center a batting leave over them, and stitch together, leaving 1/4" seam allowances and an opening across the end of the stem. Turn the leaf right side out, poking out the corners with a knitting needle. Using the leaf pattern as a visual guide, topstitch the four crosswise veins and central vein of the leaf.
Overlap the ten leaves, mixing the colors and facing the leaves in the same direction, and pin each one in place on a straw wreath, using a straight pin at both ends and leaving a quarter of the wreath uncovered at the top, as shown.

3. The bows and wheat.
Cut six 27" x 2-3/4" strips as follows:
two of solid orange fabric, two of tan calico, and two of fusible webbing. Using a strip of the webbing between them and right sides out, iron the matching fabric strips together following the manufacturer's directions. Trim the edges of each strip with pinking shears. Form a bow out of each strip by folding both ends across the middle, place one bow on top of the other, set them at the center of the open space at the top of the wreath, and anchor them in place by wrapping fine-gauge wire over their centers and around the wreath. Secure the wire and pull the bow loops up to cover it.
Tape the wheat stalks together around the middle and anchor them behind the bow with a T-pin stuck through the tape.

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