Fabulous Fabric Collaged Plant Pots

Brighten up old plant pots with lovely fabric scraps.

Posted by Delicate Stitches

About

I picked up some reduced price, slightly damaged terracotta pots from a local store and decided to pretty them up with fabric as I am trying to use up some of my fabric scraps. These pots make great presents. I did some big ones for Christmas and filled them with things like gardening gloves and seeds. You can choose fabrics that all match each other or have a real mish-mash depending on the look you want,

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You Will Need (4 things)

  • Terracotta Plant Pots
  • scraps of Fabric
  • Ribbon
  • PVA Glue

Steps (6 steps, 60 minutes)

  1. 1

    Prepare your terracotta pot by painting it with a watered down PVA solution.

    NB: This works best with terracotta pots, you could use plastic but you'd need a different glue. Terracotta and fabric work well together as they can both 'breathe.'

  2. 2

    Your pot will dry very quickly but while you're waiting you can prepare your fabric scraps, cutting them into suitable sized pieces.

  3. 3

    Using PVA glue collage your fabric scraps onto your pot. PVA dries clear so I like to use more rather than less!

  4. 4

    I like to overlap my fabrics over the rim of the pot so that when it's planted up all you can see is the fabric surface.

  5. 5

    You could also add a ribbon to finish it off...

  6. 6

    To finish off, coat the whole pot with a layer of PVA. Let it dry and then plant it up.

    PVA is water soluble so these pots are for indoor use only!