I wanted to do something festive inside the house to celebrate the 4th of July but I didn’t want to spend a lot of money or time to decorate. I saw a picture on Pinterest that used navy and burlap as the base of the tablescape so I tried to imitate it for very little money in a very little amount of time. Here is the tale of my no-sew, DIY 4th of July tablecloth.
(sorry again, all pics courtesy of my very old iPhone)
To start, you’ll need several yards of navy fabric and light burlap fabric. The tablecloth size I wanted was 108″ x 60″ so I got 1 2/3 yard of burlap and 3 yards of navy fabric. Figuring this out with the lady at Hobby Lobby was a real treat! I had a very rough drawing of what I wanted the finish product to look like and we went back and forth for a while to figure out how much I needed.
The navy fabric was just wide enough so I didn’t have to put two pieces together – the whole thing laid nicely over the table. The only problem was the unfinished edge so I took my hot glue gun and folded the edge in and glued it all of the way around the fabric. Is this a permanent and super fancy way to ‘finish’ the tablecloth? Nope! But it was the cheap, fast and easy solution I was looking for. I don’t sew, so this was the perfect shortcut.
Next, I took my burlap and cut the piece of fabric in half, lengthwise. The length was perfect so I just needed to separate it into two long pieces. I liked the unfinished and raw edge so I left it as-is.
I laid it across the table and ended up folding it in half again because it was too wide for our table. This was a messy part – I ended up using a lint roller to get off the little burlap leftovers that were on the tablecloth. I love using this material, but prepared to get messy!
I used our red chargers we have from Christmas and then layered our china on top of that. So far, so good! It gives me the perfect amount of red, white and blue without being ‘too much.’ I love using texture in the house to add character without a lot of color so the burlap runners worked out really well!
I am working on a very quick and cheap DIY centerpiece so come back tomorrow and I’ll show you how I made it and the finished 4th of July tablescape!
