burlap and blue

custom order complete + black friday promotion

November 13, 2012 By burlap+blue

One of the things I love about creating handmade for the holidays is knowing that people will be waking up on Christmas morning, all over the world, opening one of my creations. The order above was created for a sweet customer in Australia, and was so much fun to make. What do YOU love about creating handmade?

You can purchase the custom name ornaments here!

Speaking of creating and selling handmade, our Friday slots for our Black Friday weekend promotion are full, but we still have availability Saturday, Sunday, and Cyber Monday! If you sell handmade and want to get the word out there about your holiday promotions, this is a great way to do it! Email me at contactburlapandblue@gmail.com for details!

holiday burlap wreath {a tutorial}

November 12, 2012 By burlap+blue

WOW-thank you for your response for our Black Friday event-if you have a handmade business, there’s still time to be included. Just email me and I’ll send you the details!

Well, Hello and Happy Monday!

Is it too early to start thinking Christmas? I hope not, cuz I’m been realllly excited to share this with you all….

If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I was super excited to find this gold dotted burlap fabric at Joann’s the other week. I bought a yard, not quite knowing what I was going to do with it. And is it any surprise I chose to use it for a wreath? Nope-none at all.

Materials:

1 yd burlap fabric
foam wreath form
straight pins
scissors

Step 1: Take fabric and cut into pieces approx. 1″ wide and 4″ long. Take each length of burlap, fold into a loop, and insert into wreath with a pin…

…and repeat, ad infinitum (or so it’ll feel, though it really only took about an hour in reality).

I didn’t really have a technique to the placement of the loops. You can pin in rows if want a more structured look, or just do what I did and eyeball it as you go.