Burlap Turkey

Since I am still working on Thanksgiving decor for my deck, I decided to take a school art project one step farther, and make a burlap turkey.  If you missed that post you can see it here.  It's the beginning steps for this project.

                                       

  

                               

       

I used lots of Aleene's Fabric Stiffener on this project.  The first thing I did was to lay large squares of fabric on wax paper and brush the fabric stiffener on all the pieces.

I used 3 pieces like the one below.  I made each piece a little larger.

Not only does the stiffener help the fabric hold its shape, but it also does a great job of keeping the burlap from fraying.   The photo below shows what the burlap looked like before I started.  You can add the stiffener to the edges of your burlap and no more frayed edges.

I stuffed a brown paper bag, and wrapped it in the burlap.  I did not use the fabric stiffener on this piece.

I found that using a pipe cleaner was the fastest and easiest way to secure the bottom. 

I folded the edges in and glued them down with the glue gun.

For the end that I added the feathers, I glued down the edges in small sections.  I stuck a floral pin through the bag to keep it from sticking out.

I glued the smallest piece first, and then glued the feathers to the it.

I added another layer of feathers and a larger piece of burlap.  This helped to secure the feathers, and fan them out more. 

Last layer of feathers, and then I added the largest piece of burlap to cover up the feathers.

I shared how I cut out the head and the pattern in the post for the paper turkey. 

So the head of the turkey didn't look flat, I stuffed it with burlap scraps after hot gluing the edges together.   I added the eyes and the red fabric, and then glued it to the turkey body.  I also cut out a few brown feathers, and added them to the side of the turkey. 

The last step was to cut out several layers of feathers for the front.  I slid each piece around the base of the turkey head and glued each piece.  For the last layer, I added a red piece of fabric to extend the gobbler.  All done!  

 The photo below shows both turkey projects.  The paper bag version is definitely much easier and faster.  :)

One of my major goals for my Thanksgiving Break is to change the layout of  my blog so I can make my photos larger!  Not looking forward to that task.  LOL  Thank you so much for visiting.  

Kathy

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