Are you like me and feel most fabrics should be considered works of art?
Scalamandre via Traditional Home Magazine
Do you get emotional at the mere sight of a suzani?
Photo via Decor Pad
Turn into mush when you spot a Marimekko?
Toile talks to you?
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Why not frame up some fabric yourself and create your own gallery? Start with this.
Now find some fantastically frameable fabric. Have you seen Premier Prints graphic prints available in tons of wonderful colors? I selected these three from Fabric.com for under $7.00 per yard each!
Cut the fabric about 2″ larger than the canvas on all four sides.
Fold under the raw edges all the way around and miter the corners. I taped the fabric in place while I got out the big gun…the pneumatic stapler. Now s-t-r-e-t-c-h that fabric eliminating any wrinkles.
So easy!
Voila!
Not in the DIY mood? You can order pre-assembled Marimekko fabric/stretcher kits here.
Blank walls begone!
great ideas! I, like you, find fabric to be so beautiful all by itself and love the idea of creating a custom canvas.
I agree – this is beautiful!!
I love fabric covered canvas! Your yellow fabrics are fabulous.
Is there anything you can’t do???
and is that my guest room?
May I just say, Genius!
I bought a canvas believing I would paint a masterpiece on it. Little did I remember that I don’t have that gene. But this!
This I can do. Thanks for the fabulous idea!
Love this!! I want to find some fabric and try!
Oh. My. God. BEAUTIFUL! And so easy!!
I am so so SO DIY challenged, though, and thus am convinced my creation will be lumpy, soggy and sad.
But it’s worth a try. I’m a toile girl all the way!
ooo the purple fabric is beautiful!
how much to come decorate my condo?
thanks!
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Very creative!! You did an awesome job with that fabric…now lets see…hmmm…what do I want you to make me
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Ohhh… what gorgeousness!!
I needed some visual aids for my new living room, you might just have saved a lot of testing around with fabrics and antiques…
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Wow, you definitely are creative with an eye for design. Please come over and spruce up my space!! Well done!
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Great ideas, especially if one still can’t afford the priceless works of art that one would like to have on the wall.
Yay for sewing blogs on the homepage! The canvas idea is fabulous and magical – can’t wait to try it!
I’ve been looking for a good way to preserve/display the fabric from an old (and light) blanket from India that was given to me from someone special… This will be perfect.
Beautiful! Aesthetically pleasing! When I choose to find a home again, I will try some of these out!
Have a most lovely day,
Currie
These are really really nice! Love the post!
What a wonderful idea, especially with the holiday season coming up. You’ve given me some great inspirations to try when the holidays die down. I’m always looking for some sort of decor to fill the month between March-August. I may just try this! Thanks!
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Oh my, I love it! I’ve seen it done before, but now I’m inspiried.
My bedroom is looking quite sad and dull and I want some cherry blossoms up there!
Totally going to check out my fabric stash today.
Thank you!
Great idea- I would not have ever thought of doing that without your suggestions. Great that Marimekko have the kits available- making the task so much more easier… what a great and relatively inexpensive way to spruce up the walls!
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lovely! thanks for the idea!
Great ideas! A lot of those colors are really bright! Congrats on Freshly Pressed!
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Thanks for the ideas! I am getting ready to move into a new house and will need to fill my walls with something beautiful.
Great designs… I specially liked the one with the black and white pictures and the yellow flowers in the vase…
i found you on the freshly pressed landing page, congratulations! And I completely agree with you on all fronts – textiles can just make me swoon. Block prints and batiks make me weak in the knees every time. But a handsome stripe, romantic chintz or simple dotted swiss can catch me off guard too. All inspire different moods and memories!
I have seen these done in a magazine I have and have so much fabric I want to do this with. I love that you can change these easily from season to season, if you want.
Being a fabric stasher, it’s a good way for me to justify keeping all those bins of fabric I have bought over the years! Lovely site, too! Will be back for lots of inspiration.
This looks like a quick and easy project that can add instant oomph to a room. Thanks for sharing the wealth!
I’m moving into a new place, and my mother just dumped a whole bunch of old fabric on me. I now know what to do with the fabric and what to do with the bare walls!
Thanks so much for the idea!
I like it, and would likely do some extra embellishments through embroidery and beading….
its a smart and cheap idea for my walls!thanks
very cool and artistic, some of it actually looks like something from the 1950′s
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Yay Ellen!
You made it to the front page! I logged in to check my blog stats and there you were and I couldn’t resist! Great post and easy “how to”.
High five!
Tammi xo xo
I have been wanting something to hang over the bed that won’t kill us if it falls in an earthquake (no glass, nothing heavy). I was thinking about getting a hanging tapestry, but this is a much less expensive idea! Thanks.
The first room looks so cozy. And I like your Assistant Editor. I have several cats and I find they are most helpful when they stay out of the room and off my keyboard.
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Am I sad for putting wallpaper in glass frames?
very cool canvas conversion. i really gotta do this to my room. great post
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I did this with a vintage piece of toile. It had been a salesman’s sampler back in the ’60. I didn’t want to cut it up so I mounted it on a piece of foam board. Then my son needed the room, so I had to take it down. I have since folded it back up, but it looked so cool in the room!
Now I’m inspired to find some new material!
good! you are a good creater! I like your these works!
such a beautiful, simple project! great post! congrats on being freshly pressed!
Oh my gosh. What an absolutely wonderful idea.
I can’t wait to do this in all of my rooms.
This is a blog I will def. (definitely) keep up with. I laaahhhove it! Consider me hooked — subscribed already.
Great work, true talent and creativity.
Congrats!
Best –
Shan
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Such a great idea!
I just bought some beautiful fabrics which I was thinking of turning into cushions or pillowcases. I think I’ll save some to be framed.
Love this!
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LOVE the idea, i live in an appartment that makes me unable to paint the walls. YAY!
fabulous!
I read somewhere that we can make our own headboards with fabric too!
Just don’t get carried away and give your art as a gift. My poor mom was forced to keep a huge seventies orange and brown fabric graphic on her wall for years because her darling daughter thought it was soooo cool.
Amazing! i absolutely love them, if i did have any wall space left in my room i would so try making these. When i get my own place i’ll place these everywhere ((:
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just gorgeous…you are so creative
Love this idea!!! I was actually dreaming about art work for my bare walls last night and wondering how the blazes I was going to afford some.
Merci!
Some great ideas there!
I’ve just bough a house and the living room is like 3 meters wide and 5.5 meters long. If I go with dark wood floors and white walls should i use lighter colored furniture as well?
Should the colors of the Mrimekko be the same as the cushion colors.
I’m a bit lost when it comes to designing and the space i have is awkward.
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THIS IS PERFECT! I’ve been stressing over how to dress up my walls and not to have to pay $400 to do it (I haven’t found anything in my budget that I actually like looking at yet). But I love patterned fabric. My friends joke about how I tend to like clothes that make me look like I belong in an abstract art museum
So why not use my knack for finding nice fabrics and use it for my decor!!
Thanks for the great post!
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Thanks for sharing your creativity with us!
Love, love, love Marimekko! One day I was in South Dakota Walmart and in thier $1.00 material bins was a huge roll of fabric, very nice cotton upholstery fabric was a beautiful Marimekko like print. I redid my entire bedroom and if my old computer had not given up the ghost, I would add a pic. I thought it was grand.
I also love the wonderful batik above the sofa in the pic from decor pad.
Congrats on bein fresh pressed!
I’ve been itching on decorating my blank walls! Thank you for this wonderful idea!!
Wow that is so cool! Thank you so much for the inspiration!
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Beautiful decorations! Thank you very much for the lovely ideas.
Wow! Thank you for this post! That is truly a great idea and I am so excited to try it out myself. I have never thought to do that before.
so pretty. and i like it! ♥
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great post
i m addicted to ur blog now
i like these works, so creative!
wooooowwwwwww amazing
very nice
That s beautiful!!!
This page is definetly a keeper! Congrats on making front page.
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I love the fabrics. I am in real need to decorate my place and you have some really great ideas. thanks!!
Die for Marimekko! I used to have sleepovers at a friend’s house and they had those huge red poppies on their sheets. I loved waking up surrounded by red and orange.
So, yes, I turn to gush!
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
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Great idea, cost effective and a big bang for your buck!
Do you reupholster yourself? If so do you have a post written about it?
Thanks again for an informative blog, excited to see more!
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Very nice! Thanks for sharing, I love decorating and this may come in handy one day!
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This is so great! I think I’m going to do this and rotate my canvasses out for the seasons, special ocaissions and for the holidays! Thanks and congrats!
~Mike
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wow this could be a great house-warming gift for my sister-in-law! thanks for sharing. hopefully I wont be too lazy to go to the fabric store & buy some cute fabrics in 3 different motives. ah yes… also to get some canvasses
wow this could be a great house-warming gift for my sister-in-law! thanks for sharing. hopefully I wont be too lazy to go to the fabric store & buy some cute fabrics in 3 different motives. ah yes… also to get some canvasses
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good…:)
congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
how exciting!
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where would i be able to find some black and white fabric like that in newfoundland?
(Sigh) Different strokes for different folks. I’m afraid a house full of such “standout” prints would be overwhelming for me.
My mother, on the other hand, would have liked your work. She was an excellent seamstress, sewing ALL of her clothes. (Her big disappointment was having four boys and no girls to sew for.) She also did upholstery, curtains, and most anything else that involved cloth. And she just loved LOUD material–especially if it had RED in it. Her walls, however were covered with her paintings.
While I’m not too sure on the topic itself, I love the sofa on the second picture
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Framing fabrics is a GREAT idea! I have a friend who re-did her bathroom with framed fabrics that was leftover from upholstering her den. It is a really unique way to use/recycle leftover materials.
How cool is this? Fun and classy, depending on what you want! Congrats on being Freshly Pressed.
Awesome idea. It doesn’t look too tedious either.