DIY projects with fabric painting

With a few colors and a suitable brush, fabric painting opens up endless opportunities for transforming your home! Beckie Farrant shows you how to create Snowflake Pillows.

 

Supplies:

Martha Stewart Crafts Fabric Medium

Martha Stewart Crafts Metallic Paint, Champagne

Martha Stewart Adhesive Silkscreen: Snowflake Set

Martha Stewart Squeegees

fabric

sewing machine with coordinate thread

rotary cutter/matt

iron

pillow form

disposable cup

1. Cut your fabric 1” larger than your pillow form. I had a 14” pillow form so  cut out a 15” square of red fabric.

2. Cut apart your snowflake screens so that they are separate from each other.

3. Mix one parts fabric medium with two parts paint into a disposable cup. Use 1 tablespoon of paint with a 1/2 tablespoon of fabric medium.

4.  Lay your screen on your fabric and press down.  The screens have a slight adhesive on the back.  Load your squeegee with paint and then drag it across your screen.  Do not press your squeegee into the screen or you will end up with bleeding.  Here is a one minute video showing you what I mean.

5.  Remove and rinse screen.

Tip: Taping your stencil down is optional.

6.  Repeat until your entire fabric is stenciled the way you like.

7.  With a press cloth over your dried snowflake pillow press to set the paint.

8.  Cut two pieces of fabric 15” x 12” and then fold under the long end twice and sew a hem on both pieces of fabric.  With right sides together and the two back pieces overlapping pin and sew your envelope style pillow.

9.  Stuff your pillow form into the pillowcase.