A Thoughtful Homemade Father's Day Gift
Still no Father's Day gift? That's okay! This year I made a personalized and thoughtful gift for both my father and for Matthew and they only take a few hours and a few materials that you might already have! I got every single one of these items from Hobby Lobby!
Materials
sewing threads of your color choice (I used yellow, navy, and white)
needlepoint ring (couldn't find it on their website but it's literally just a thin wooden circle frame that can be found right next to the sewing fabrics)
pen
scissors
I have really wanted to get into needlepoint for the longest time now and I'm not sure why...but I took the opportunity to get started with this Father's Day! It took hours and hours for me to figure it out and decide how I'd construct it, but eventually I ended up with a beautiful beer cooler with "#1 GPA" for my dad and one for my husband with his monogram (he wouldn't let me stitch the monogram correctly, so the order is first, middle, last)! Needlepoint ended up being super therapeutic when I got the hang of it and now I'm just itching to do more!!
Step 1: Clamp the corner of the needlepoint fabric into the ring and trim off the excess (do it neatly so you can use the best amount of left over fabric later). Using a pen, design what you'll stitch into the fabric. Since I made these for Father's Day, I put "#1 GPA" for my dad and "MJT" for Matthew inside of a frame.
Step 4: Decide where your design will go on the cooler, line it up, and trace that. You'll cut out a little window from the leather fabric and stitch the design into it.
Step 1: Clamp the corner of the needlepoint fabric into the ring and trim off the excess (do it neatly so you can use the best amount of left over fabric later). Using a pen, design what you'll stitch into the fabric. Since I made these for Father's Day, I put "#1 GPA" for my dad and "MJT" for Matthew inside of a frame.
Step 2: Stitch into the fabric your design! I used Youtube to figure out how to stitch, this isn't something I could really teach you in a blog post. It would be very long, haha. But it's super simple when you get the hang of it! After you've stitched your design, unclamp the fabric and trim neatly around the design.
Step 3: Open up the beer cooler by snipping the threads, leave the bottom circle area that goes under the can intact. Lay that on the faux leather fabric and trace around it. Leave a little space around the cooler, you won't want to cut out the exact size, but slightly larger.
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| Here you can see where I traced the cooler and where I cut it a bit larger. |
Step 5: Lay the cooler on the opposite side than what's shown above, and stitch that right on top! Make sure there is an equal amount of extra fabric on either side of the cooler. Unfortunately I didn't get a photo of this step, but it's very literal! Try to make the stitches as even as possible as they will be visible when you're finished.
Step 6: Fold the cooler in on itself- inside out. Like when you made that pillow in FACS class in middle school? You stitched the pillow inside out and flipped it around when you were finished. Same concept here! See below where the extra fabric sticks out? That was the part that was stitched. Make sure to trim what you're able to before you flip it right-side-out, unlike me 😊
Step 7: You may not need to do this step, but I left way too much fabric on the top of the cooler, so I needed to trim it to be the same height as the cooler that I sewed inside. And you are finished!!
This is such a personal, thoughtful gift to give your family member. It's unlikely that they've ever been given this before!
Happy Father's Day and thank you for reading!
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