Welcome Sign

    I love crafting and trying new, different crafting materials. There is always one I keep coming back to and that is plastic canvas. I wanted a welcome sign but couldn't find the right one that i wanted to make. So, I came up with my own its a wreath made up of dog tags. 

 

 

3 Plastic Canvas Sheets

  Materials needed for this project are:

• yarn (color optional)
  
• plastic canvas sheets
• plastic canvas needles
• scissors

 
 
 
 
 

  

 

 

 First, you want to gather all your materials. This way you have everything in front of you and get comfortable because this will take some time, lol.

18 x 22

 Once you have all the materials it is time to cut the plastic canvas sheets into three sections, each sheet makes up nine rectangles eighteen by twenty-two.

Template

Second, use your template to cut each rectangle into the shape of dog tags.

 

Then you will end up with a pile or stack of the templates cut outs.

27 cutouts in total

Third, you will need yarn to stitch out each letter: 

• U-S-N-A-V-Y (US is optional)
  
• W-E-L-C-O-M-E

 

 Note: I decided to not use U and S, felt it was to much.

 

Fourth, here we start to sew or weave the yawn throughout the canvas. The font, I had to search Pinterest for the different fonts that would fit and look, that I was looking for.

Start weaving in the yawn.

As you can see with these pictures, this is what the finished look should look like front and back. You will also need to make blank ones as well.

This is what it will look like you attach together.

Tie it all together, literally!

Fifth, You will need to use your yawn and attach each of the letter words first. Then add the blank ones to give the wreath more depth.

Last, I cut a octagon shape because my wreath needed something to look more like a wreath and not a droopy wreath. I cut and used yawn to weave throughout the frame. After, I attached to the frame of the wreath.

This is what is should look like after you are completely done making and attaching you wreath together!