Bohemian Style

Bohemian style is in full swing on this episode of Creative Juice. We create a one-of-a-kind patchwork tack board with ceiling tiles, shed some light on a beautiful beaded lamp, and add some Bohemian flair to a plain old ring and mix up some red wide spritzers.

Ingredients:
2 c. frozen berries, any variety
1 bottle, 750 ml, dry red table wine
1 qt. seltzer water

1. Fill large pitcher with the frozen berries and dry red wine; let stand 30 minutes.

2. Pour wine from the pitcher into wine glasses approximately halfway up the glass. Scoop a few berries into glasses.

3. Top off glasses with seltzer just prior to serving.

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Materials:
cluster or charm ring blank
assorted beads
silver-tone head pins
rounds-nose pliers
wire-cutters

1. To create a charm, thread a head pin through one of the beads (if the beads are small, try putting two or three on each pin). Trim the head pin with wire-cutters, leaving just enough wire sticking out from the top of the pin to make a small loop with the round-nose pliers.

2. To make the ring, make a loop, leaving it slightly open, and link it to one of the loops on the ring blank. Close the loop with pliers.

3. Repeat steps until you are satisfied with the fullness of the ring, keeping in mind you can put more than one charm on each loop of the ring blank.

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Materials:
acoustic ceiling tile (15″x15″), available at hardware stores (can be cut to size with a utility knife)
9″ quilting square
medium to heavy-weight fusible interfacing
scrap fabric (velvet, funky colors and prints)
Fabri-Tac glue
backing fabric or felt, cut slightly smaller than the tile
18″ of decorative ribbon
sewing machine
scissors
pinking shears
assorted brooches and buttons
heavy-duty flat thumbtacks
jewelry wire-cutters
E6000 glue

1. Use the quilting square to trace and cut out four 9″ squares of fusible interfacing.

2. Cut scrap fabric in random sizes and shapes and place on the adhesive side of the interfacing. Arrange the pieces of fabric to overlap with no interfacing showing.

3. Iron the fabric pieces to the interfacing using a dry, hot iron. Press down and hold to fuse the interfacing to the fabric scraps.

4. Using a zigzag stitch, topstitch over the edges of each piece of fabric, stitching them in a crazy-quilt pattern. Repeat for each of the four squares, trimming the edges to fit the fabric to the interfacing.

5. Lay out the four squares to make one large 18″x18″ square.

6. Overlap the edges of two squares and pin together. Use a zigzag topstitch to sew squares together. Repeat with the remaining two squares.

7. Overlap the two sets of squares and zigzag stitch together to complete the large square.

8. Lay fabric right side down and place ceiling tile on top of fabric; there should be a 3″ seam allowance on all sides of the tile.

9. Place a dot of Fabri-Tac glue on one corner of the tile. Pull the fabric taut, fold toward the center of the tile and press. Continue this process until all four corner are folded in and glued to the tile.

10. Place additional glue around the perimeter of the tile, and fold remaining fabric in center of tile.

11. Glue the ends of the 18″ ribbon to the back of the tile, 2″ from the top and 3″ from the side edges; the ribbon will act as a hanger.

12. Cut a piece of fabric 15″x15″ (slightly smaller than the tile) and glue to the back of the tile, covering the folded fabric to create a finished look.

13. Choose an assortment of brooches and buttons and remove all the hardware backings (pins and shank button pieces) with jewelry wire-cutters.

14. Using E6000, glue heavy-duty flat thumbtacks to the back of the brooches. This can be tricky, so make sure to lay it on a solid flat surface while it dries. Set aside and let dry for several hours.
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Materials:
lampshade holder ring with drilled holes for hanging prisms
standard washer-top bulb clip
tall lamp
monofilament
painter’s or masking tape
medium-gauge jewelry chain
two pairs round-nosed jewelry pliers
4mm or 6mm jump rings
charms
miscellaneous beads of different sizes and colors
scissors
measuring tape

1. Cut monofilament line 4″ longer than the length of bead strands. To determine the length of the beaded strands, place lampshade ring on the lamp and measure how far down the beaded strands will hang. This measurement will vary depending on the height of the lamp. This shade is 8″ long, so the monofilament was cut to 12″ lengths.

2. Thread a large bead or charm on the monofilament and knot at the bottom to secure. Use a measuring tape to measure the strand and continue stringing beads on the line until the bead strand is 8″ long.

3. When the bead strand is the desired length, wrap a small amount of painter’s or masking tape to the end of the monofilament to prevent the beads from sliding off while working on additional strands.

4. Using round-nosed jewelry pliers, open a link in the jewelry chain to create the length of chain needed for the lamp; we used 9″ lengths of chain. Continue to make additional chain lengths.

5. Open a jump ring with the round-nosed pliers and attach a charm to one end of a length of chain.

6. Make enough beaded strands and lengths of chain with charms to attach to the drilled holes in the lampshade ring. We attached chain or strands to every other hole.

7. Tie the bead strands to the lamp by threading the top of the monofilament line through the drilled prism hole in the lampshade ring. Tie the monofilament in a double knot to secure the strand.

8. Attach the chain lengths to the lampshade ring by opening a jump ring with round-nosed pliers, threading the chain on the jump ring, inserting the jump ring through one of the drilled holes in the lampshade ring and closing the jump ring.

9. Trim away any excess monofilament and attach the shade to the lamp.