Thanksgiving Sign with Fabric Letters

Make a cute Thanksgiving sign using fabric letters and adhesive spray. Cut the letters easily with your Cricut Maker 3 using a fabric cutting mat and various fabrics. Adhering them to a dark wooden sign makes them stand out even more. This is an easy project that takes very little time, the kind you can create at the last minute, if needed.

 

Materials:

Cricut Maker 3
Pink Fabric Cutting Mat
Rotary Blade
Wooden pallet sign
Various fabric scraps
Adhesive spray

The first step is to select a quote for your sign. I chose "thankful, grateful and stuffed" for mine. The original sign I saw on Pinterest (at dukesandduchesses.com) said, "happy thankstuffing," which I thought was really cute, too. Choose any saying that delights you.

Then select the fabrics you will use. I stuck to five colors/patterns and alternated them in a repeating pattern to spell out the words.

I typed my letters in Design Space and selected the Birthday Bash font.

I changed the letters to different colors in a pattern, so I would know which letters to cut of each fabric.

I placed the letters with the same color together for cutting. Each set would be cut on the mat separately.

The letters were squished together too closely, so I manually separated them in Design Space on each mat before cutting.

Once I was ready to start cutting out the letters, I switched out the blades in my Cricut, removing the fine point blade and inserting the rotary blade, which is used to cut fabric.

I placed each fabric on my pink fabric cutting mat, used a brayer to smooth it out, and put the mat into the machine.

After each set of letters was cut, I pulled off the extra fabric, leaving the letters on the mat.

Then I pulled off the letters. They came off easily, although they did leave a bit of fabric residue on the mat. This came off easily with a spatula tool.

I continued cutting out letters until they were all done.

Then I arranged them in word order. I loved how the various fabrics looked next to each other.

Now all I had to do was attach them to my sign, and I would be done. I placed them on my sign in the positions I wanted. I would glue each one in place while leaving the others on the sign to keep them spaced properly.

I placed newspaper under my wooden sign to protect my table, turned each letter upside down on the paper and sprayed it. I thought I took pictures of that process, but I guess not.

Working with the adhesive spray was a bit tricky. It seemed to dry fast, so I needed to place the letters on the sign quickly after spraying them. I should have worn gloves, but I couldn't find mine easily (after my last bout of organizing - hmm).

I got bits of glue on my fingers, and the letters wanted to stick to me instead of to the sign, which became very frustrating. I got smarter then and used a Cricut tweezers to place them instead.

Here are the letters all glued on. I think they look cute. I can't wait to hang up my new sign for Thanksgiving.

Do you have a cute Thanksgiving quote you could put on a sign like this? It's a good way to use up some of those fabric scraps you have sitting around.

Note: I was able to remove the adhesive spray from my fingers and from the tweezers by using lemon essential oil. It works great for removing any kind of sticky residue from surfaces and is even safe for skin.

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What if, today, we were grateful for everything?    Charlie Brown

Leslie

 
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