It’s Girl Scout cookie time!!! I have been a “Cookie Mom” for the past few years {OMG I can just see that as the next TLC show} and part of cookie sales includes cookie booths. There is a lot of competition in our area when it comes to selling cookies, so I was looking for something to make our troop stand out… so I decided to make a tablecloth for our cookie booth. I used only materials I had on hand so it cost me $0!
This is the final product in action.
This type of tablecloth obviously works well for Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts, but would work equally as well for a trade show or tailgating, or simply for a birthday party. And you don’t have to use felt, but it does work well because it doesn’t fray. There are several “frey stop” products on the market under various names, but that would add a lot of extra work and it would have to be pretty special fabric to make it worth while. Here’s a brand I’ve used on other projects: Frey Check
No Sew Girl Scout Tablecloth
Directions:
What shows green in the image above was now one solid piece of yellow felt. Next I cut out the white portions of the image above, traced each piece onto orange felt and cut them out. I also traced them onto fusible web and cut that out. {Remember use the mirror image if you don’t want your tracing marks to show.} I then ironed the shiny side of fusing onto the two orange pieces, then fused the orange pieces to the yellow trefoil. The result was pretty substantial and I’m sure I could think of a lot more uses for this type of felt project, but I digress. The last step is to fuse the entire trefoil logo onto the tablecloth.
This tablecloth is now on its fourth year, was used at a cookie booth today, and still looks as good as the day I made it!
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