I made a sailboat last week.
Out of a branch and a twig,
part of my vintage ticking fabric,
and a couple of eyelet screws.
Quick and easy and sort of cute, if I may say so myself!
In a nutshell:
- I sawed a dead branch from our brush pile into a section roughly 16" long. If there's one thing I have an abundance of around here, it's dead tree branches
- I cut a twig to about 17" long
- Drilled a hole in the middle of the larger branch section
- Hot glued the twig into the hole
- Cut my fabric into a scalene triangle (I'll save you from running to find your geometry books - it's three different sized sides)
- Screwed the 2 eyelet screws into each end of the branch
- Sewed one end of the the triangles onto the eyelet screws
- Sewed the opposite bottom of the triangles onto the mast (aka twig in the middle)
- Sewed the top of the triangles to the top of the twig
- Then I cut out a double sided triangle to use as a top flag and hot glued it to the top
- Done
Took about 15 minutes. Most of the time was me trying to get the stupid needle threaded.
I really need to get some new eyes. Or wear my glasses.
Now, I'm a long way from the beach, so I used tree branches instead of driftwood, but I think it turned out OK.
You gotta work with what you've got! And here in the Midwest, we've got branches.
You can see how I've used my sailboat in different areas of my home over the years:
A Happy Little Sunflower Vignette
Summer Home Tour Eclectic Style
Easy American Flag Craft
And you can see lots and lots of other Quick And Easy DIY & Craft Projects HERE.
ℳartina @ Northern Nesting
Very Cute!! Love the whole vignette! Martina
Shore Girl
Wow -- so simple and yet ADORABLE!!! Love em'
Laurel
This is adorable...love it 🙂 Laurel
beachcomber
well done! i'm going to try this one day : )
cheryl x
Gloria (The Little Red House with the White Porch)
Wonderful job on the boat -- the whole little 'beachside' vignette is adorable!
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Best,
Gloria
Pamela
Is this cute or what? I love it Pam!
Fun!!!
missing moments
Very cute!
Tete
Cute! How's your week going? We are getting rain now!
Babs
That is sooo cute. What fun!
Babs
NanaDiana
Those are darling! I love your version! xo Diana
Vicki
I love it. So cool!
Kim K.
I'm totally in love.
Debby
How cute. Wouldn't that boat be cute in a little guy's bedroom.
SavannahGranny
You are tooo good girl! I do believe that you can do anything. Kudos for you. Ginger
Ann@A Sentimental Life
how cute and inventive!
Sherry@Back2Vintage
Way cool!!! Love it!!!