I may be crafty but I do NOT know how to sew nor do I have a sewing machine. I know I know people always say “Oh its so easy to sew” but I’m more of a creative chaos crafter and like throwing things together, but when sewing you actually have to be precise and know what you are doing. You cant just “wing it” and see if it comes out how you want it.

Well when I look around online more and see beautiful things come out of that thing that they can sewing machine, I really want to try to teach myself and make something! Like this craft below… which takes old fabric scraps and reshapes them into leaves for a tree of a pillow! My living room has a rustic fall theme all year round so this would look beautiful against my natural colors.

A list of supplies is posted below but if you want to know how to make this visit CluckCluckSew for the full tutorial and pictures!

Supplies Needed:
1. Scraps, enough for the tree trunk and the leaves. Cutting your scraps into rectangles will make it easier to adhere them to the appliqué material.

2. Appliqué material: I use Heat’ n Bond. You’ll need about 1/2 yard or more depending on how many leaves you want to make.

3. Material for the pillow front, cut to 17″ x 17″ square. I used lightweight canvas and prefer home weight material, but you could use anything.

4. Material for the back. Cut 1 rectangle 17″x 14″ and cut 1 rectangle 17″x 10″.