More Sunflowers and Watermelons!!

 

As I continue on with my watermelon and sunflower theme, this is the new watermelon garland I made last night to put on the front window by the door. 

 

This was really easy to make.  Make yourself a watermelon pattern - mine was approximately 7" wide x 3" tall.  Bond your red prints to a heavy interfacing.  Then cut your green rim pattern and use Heat and Bond to bond it to the watermelon half. 

 

 

I used red cording and glued the finished watermelons onto it leaving about 2" of the cording in between.  I then went thru my ribbon drawer and pulled out reds and greens and tied them on the cord in between the watermelons.  I double-knotted them so I didn't have to worry about them coming undone.

 

 

The final detail - I glued on real watermelon seeds to each one.  I had no idea watermelon seeds started out white.  I would have preferred black but this was what I had.

 

This garland measures about 36" from watermelon to watermelon with generous ties on each end.

 

Now to my sunflower project for today.....

 

 

This was a super simple project!!  I found this darling purse at the thrift store for $1.98 without the sunflower.  I thought a pop of bright yellow would really add to it.  Soooooo, I hot glued a yellow sunflower to it and now it is one of my favorites for this time of the year!

 

Enjoy!

 

Till next time, Judy