PottyBarnKids had a great thankful tree, where each day in November you write what you are thankful for and put it in a leaf pocket. However, it cost $70. Mom and I thought we could definately do that with less expense.
We had fun shopping for the materials and the main fabric that I'm using for some of the leaves and for the binding, Hailey picked it out. We used a lot of WonderUnder or Fusible Web (it's the same stuff just different people use different names). We also made the pattern ourselves. We would have been under budget if we were more exact with how much fabric we needed but the biggest expense (and the biggest time saver) was the sticky felt letter and numbers. (We needed to get 7 bags in total just so we would have enough number 2s.) I'm glad we worked on this project together since we were about to personalize it more for my family and it has history on how we made it. This is also something I need to finish off at home. My goal is to have it done by the end of May (with a lot of my other sewing projects I have started but haven't finished yet.)
This is 2009's calendar from PottyBarn that we borrowed thinking it was this years but still got good ideas from, like the border and the size.
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