Stained Glass Garden Trellis

Make this objet d' art, an alphabet card game for a toddler, or a quilt from fabric scraps.

Jul 25, 2006

Here are the top three craft projects submitted. Now it is your turn.

You vote for your favorite. Do you pick complexity, simplicity, effort or level of skill? You decide.

Susan

My husband is taking apart of our deck in preparation of building a screened in porch. The railings of the deck are made of cedar and have many years left in them. We are going to box in the ends of the railings and reuse them in the garden. One of them will be a trellis on the end of the house to help hide the gas meter. The other will be the top of an arbor. The project I'm most excited about is the one that I'm turning into a craft project.

Once it is complete, the railing will be turned lengthwise so that the railing slats will be horizontal. It will be affixed to the house with screws so we can take it down when we paint. This trellis will have colorful art glass wired on the slats in a random, mosiac style pattern - kind of flowing like a stream. Eventually, it will have a flowering vine going up one side. The art glass will help add color, pattern and height to the shade garden.

Breanna

I am not sure if this qualifies as a craft project. I have a simple idea. I have a little boy 18 months. He is very active and not interested in sitting down to learn his letters or read. It is important to me to work on his language skills but if it isn't in motion he isn't interested.

I got an idea to take a package of construction paper or card stock and write a large letter on each sheet. I put a picture of an object starting with that letter on the back. I spread them all over the house. As we ran from letter to letter singing the alphabet song, he thought it was a great game. I ended up covering them with clear contact paper to make them last. I am going to use them to make games later on using the same concept but spelling out words.

Grace

I found a box of old upholstery fabric samples. They were about 10"x12". It just seemed logical to make them into a quilt. I cut the information papers off each one and started piecing them together. I pulled out my scraps of trim and randomly added trim to some of the seams. The textures and colors were different but all shared a common theme and made them relate to each other. I batted it and used flannel for the backing to add softness.

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