Quick And Easy DIY Sailboat Decor
A couple years ago we had a little mini tornado (F-0 I believe) go through our yard and damage a couple trees and do minor damage to the roof. We were so lucky that it wasn't anything more serious as it took down a garage and a few barns within a stone's throw from here! After the storm, we gathered all the branches and such and threw them into a pile. Where, for the most part, they still sit.
But more to the point of my little story here, I did make a couple of cute little sailboats out of a few of the limbs though.
And this is how I did it:
- I sawed a dead branch from our brush pile into a section roughly 16" long.
- I cut a twig to about 17" long
- Drilled a hole in the middle of the larger branch section
- Hot glued the twig into the hole
- Cut my fabric into a scalene triangle (I'll save you from running to find your geometry books - it's three different sized sides)
- Screwed the 2 eyelet screws into each end of the branch
- Sewed one end of the the triangles onto the eyelet screws
- Sewed the opposite bottom of the triangles onto the mast (aka twig in the middle)
- Sewed the top of the triangles to the top of the twig
- Then I cut out a double sided triangle to use as a top flag and hot glued it to the top
- Done
Now, go find your own tree branch and build yourself a boat!
But more to the point of my little story here, I did make a couple of cute little sailboats out of a few of the limbs though.
And this is how I did it:
- I sawed a dead branch from our brush pile into a section roughly 16" long.
- I cut a twig to about 17" long
- Drilled a hole in the middle of the larger branch section
- Hot glued the twig into the hole
- Cut my fabric into a scalene triangle (I'll save you from running to find your geometry books - it's three different sized sides)
- Screwed the 2 eyelet screws into each end of the branch
- Sewed one end of the the triangles onto the eyelet screws
- Sewed the opposite bottom of the triangles onto the mast (aka twig in the middle)
- Sewed the top of the triangles to the top of the twig
- Then I cut out a double sided triangle to use as a top flag and hot glued it to the top
- Done
Now, go find your own tree branch and build yourself a boat!
It's a very simple and rustic sailboat made for home decor. It probably would not actually float :)
See, just a branch for the boat and a twig for the mast. Very simple.
These are the eyelet screws that I screwed into the end of the branch
The fabric was some vintage ticking that I bought at a barn sale. It was full of rips and holes, so about the only thing it was good for was small projects like this.
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Thank you thank you knew drift wood was a impossible dream but tree branches I can do
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Adorable, I love it !
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