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This is the part were you fill in the gaps. This involved lots of climbing along tree branches so I advise y'all to wear pants and shoes.ĥ. They used a staple gun to staple the foundation fabric strip along the length of the tree limb.

The day before the wedding, my Maid-of-Honor and one of my brothers helped me get the fabric streamer backdrop up on the tree where we were doing the ceremony.

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We had a bag full of leftover strips (which came in handy later).Ĥ. Then she'd keep sewing the different strips of the fabrics along it until we had a massive 20 foot stretch of fabric streamers. When she ran out of her foundation fabric strip, she would stop a few inches before it ended and sew another foundation strip on. She used one strip of fabric as a foundation and would sew different strips of the fabrics along it (side by side) in an assorted fashion. My mom did this the week of the wedding and (because ours was SO big) it took her about 3 hours. Collect all your strips together and sew them. I didn't care if this was done perfectly so I just eyeballed it.īut if perfect strips are important to you then make a template strip out of cardstock and use it as a guide.ģ. Use good fabric scissors (or a rotary cutter) to cut sheets into 1'-2' strips. That includes wetting the sheets and mixing the dye in hot water with salt.Ģ. Follow the directions on each dye packet and dye sheets (I did 2 sheets per packet).īe sure to do ALL the prepwork (and not just toss them in the washer with the dye).