Halloween Collage Banners

Create a delightful collage banner to celebrate the holiday!

Spooky or sweet this Halloween banner will fill your space with good spirits.

Create a fabric collage background to showcase fun holiday images that you transfer onto fabric. You will learn how to create great compositions, add layers, and discover a plethora of embellishment techniques

Your banner can be vintage and sweet or dark and spooky. 

Student supply list: 

Supplies:

1.  Assorted fabrics in your chosen theme-sweet or spooky. About 4-10 different fabrics. Any fabrics can play in a collage; cotton, silk, velvet, lace, rayon, home decor- vintage or new. You only need small pieces of most fabrics and a few larger pieces that could be backgrounds.
2. Hand sewing needles and embroidery needles (I prefer gold eye Chenille needles), sharp scissors, and thimble if desired
3. Assorted thread: embroidery and cotton thread, metallic and specialty threads you would like to use.
4. Assorted embellishment items with a Halloween flair such as buttons, beads, rusty bits, skeleton leaves, ephemera and old or art papers, twigs, feathers etc, ribbons, yarns, whatever is handy. No more than a gallon zip bag full

Instructor:  Liz Kettle

Instructor Bio: Why I Sew:

I have been intrigued with stitching since I was a child. I have never lost the feeling that something magical happens when you combine fabric and stitch. There are just so many possibilities….will this fabric want to be a bag, a journal cover, or a skirt or become part of a special story in collage? Fabric is such a malleable material. It can be draped, sculpted, textured or smooth. Stitching is so incredibly satisfying….why would anyone not sew?