Burlap Ideas

Burlap seems to be everywhere these days and used so many different ways. It is cheap, provides wonderful texture, but the bad part is it isn't a fabric that you want to snuggle with.

When I showed you my sister's kitchen the other day there was an apron hanging on the front of her fridge that she made. I thought I would tell you how easily she made it. My sister does not sew, but she can do great things with a bottle of Fabri Tac.

Isn't this cute? She purchased a cheap vintage coffee bag at the flea market and wasn't sure what she was going to do with it and then she had a light bulb moment.

Light bulb moment! Work with me here folks.

Let me explain this the best I can. She took an apron that she already had. You can see the backside of the striped apron here. She cut the back of the sack off and saved it for another project I will  share in a moment. She took the front part of the sack and laid it out. Then she put her apron on top of the sack and traced the outline of the apron. She then cut out the burlap sack in the shape of the apron and glued the apron and burlap sack that has been cut out together with the FabriTac glue. She mainly just glued the edges real good and did not glue all over. She didn't want glue showing through the burlap. By using the apron attached to the burlap gives it strength that it would not have on its own.

Here you can see the striped apron showing through the burlap when pulled open with the light behind it.
She glued on the black braided trim to hide the cut edges of the burlap plus it looks cute this way.

This is the final look.

She took the plain backside of the burlap sack that she had cut and made a towel out of it. Not to use of course. Don't think anyone wants to dry off on burlap. Ouch!
She taped off the area to paint the red stripe on and then just added random numbers. These
numbers don't have any special meaning.

And here is the finished look.

A place that I have used burlap in an unusual way is in my sitting room in the back of my bookcase.

This was an easy project that I did last year and you can see how here.

I also made this burlap crate cover for Miss Bailey's crate that she sleeps in at night. I was amazed that I was able to create this. I am not really a sewer either, but I managed to whip this up last year.

Isn't she the cutest?

I know several of you have seen these last two projects before, but the theme at Donna's party this week for SNS is burlap.  I am sharing at the following
parties:

Funky Junk Interiors SNS 
Bargain Hunting with Laurie for Favorite Things Saturday

Come back tomorrow for a giveaway!

Enjoy your weekend,

KIM