Hello again everyone. I have been struggling with releasing this post because the art looks so cool but I just don’t think its right for our house. I guess this is a good reminder to keep trying new things and not let some bad projects get you down. This art piece is really cool but it is a little informal for our house I think. You can’t win them all I guess!
Here is the story of the coffee bag art!
If you all have been reading my blog for awhile you know that I love to make my own art pieces for our house. Check out this post for a bunch of ideas like post cards, posters, stickers, and even soup can labels. Today we are talking coffee bags. Not the kind you store your coffee in but the big burlap bags that store to coffee beans. What could we possibly do with that right? How is that art?
When I went to Friends Plant Sale they had these for sale for $1. Can’t get any better than that right? I was drawn to them immediately because of the cool graphics. I think people use these to cover their plants and garden. All I could think about was a wall hanging. If you think outside the box you can find art anywhere.
I have been looking for a large piece for a long time and this is the perfect size and I thought this would fit in with our other odd ball art projects.
I wanted to mount the coffee bag on a large dowel and hang it using twine.
Supply list
Coffee Bag
1″ Dowel
Twine
Safety Pins
Plastic needle (big enough to thread the twine)
2 sided threaded screw
Nail & Hammer
Sand Paper
Drill
Sharp scissors
First, Sew the bag closed. It had been slit open let the coffee out. I am not a sewer so I learned how to create a new stitch that looked like it fit with the bag. This article from Apartment Therapy showed me how to get the straight look I wanted. I needed to sew it tight enough that the back of the bag wouldn’t sag when it was hanging on the wall.
Next I slit the top of the sides open and sewed the top shut. This would allow me to slide the dowel into the bag when it was done. I used baby safety pins to keep the bag aligned so when I sewed the bag shut the one stayed straight.
I then slid in the dowel and trimmed off some of the edge to get the perfect length. It should stick out a bit but the dowel was way too long. I thought about staining the dowel but with our light colored floors I decided that natural was the way to go. I will later use the left over dowel piece to create a hook for the bag to hang on.
Here is the final Back and Front
Back
Front
Now, I need to create something for the bag to hang off of. I cut strands of twine 4x as long as the bag is wide and braided them together. I folded the twine in half and created a loop for one side of the dowel. At the end of the braid I tied the braid to the dowel.
Now the hook. I cut the left over dowel piece to be around 2 1/2″ long and sanded the edges to get a finished look. Since I went with the natural look for the dowel I am going to keep the hook the same. I took my little hand saw and cut out a notch for the art to hang on. I then drilled a pilot hole in the middle of the dowel and screwed in the double sided screw. These are like the best invention ever! You can do anything concealed and its awesome!
The I screwed the hook into the wall after drilling another pilot hole. Next, hang the art! Here is the finished product.
It looks pretty cool but I am not sure if against the dining room is its final resting place. Maybe we need to paint that wall again? I have been thinking about painting it black. Maybe it is just not right for our house? I had fun making it so it was worth it in the end. I think the best part for me was learning a new stitch and the wooden hook!
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