Purchasing a wall hanging doesn’t need to break the bank. You can reuse old fabric scraps around your home to create beautiful wall hangings and pillows. This is where you have complete creative leeway toward decoration. Collect old scraps lying around your attic or basement, scraps you find in vintage drawers, or scraps you’d otherwise toss into the garbage. This fun weekend DIY project can give your home the missing decorative pop it needs.
Create a Fabric Collage
Using a backing fabric, you can layer different-colored and shaped scraps to build a beautiful collage. If you have other throw pillows in a solid color, this is an excellent way to add a bold and colorful pop to your decorative pillows. It can become a statement piece that stands out amongst the others.
Textured White Netting
Netting can create an eye-catching and straightforward wall piece without making your space seem overwhelming or loud. Use textured, thick fabric to give it definition. If you have white wainscoting in your living room or kitchen, hang this piece above it to tie the look together.
Macramé with Fabric Strips
These macramé-style hangings are great additions to bohemian-style homes. You can use long strips of fabric scraps to build a custom-made DIY macramé that looks great hanging behind a living room couch or above a bed in the bedroom. Best of all, this upcycling of old material is eco-friendly and great for the environment. For this decoration, you can use any color and style that matches your home.
Patchwork Wall Quilt
Sew small pieces of fabric together to create a unique quilt-style design. This is an excellent way to utilize extensive and tiny scraps of fabric you find around your home. You can use similar colors for a more cohesive look or collect random scraps and turn them into bold, colorful, vibrant statement pieces that drape across one of your living room walls.
Appliqué Art
For decorative art, stitch fabric shapes onto a larger canvas or pillow. This differs from a patchwork wall quilt since you’ll use varying shapes on a canvas. You can choose a canvas that takes up most of your living room wall or a small throw of decorative pillows for your living room. If you want to go creative, you can turn the design into a bird, a bunch of flowers, a sunset, or a mountain.
DIY Hoop Art
Embroidery hoops make great statement pieces. Place fabric scraps in the hoops to create colorful, framed pieces that are easy to hang on your living room or bedroom walls. You can also sew a blank canvas across the hoop and sew different pieces of fabric to create a piece of fabric art.
Fiber Wall Hanging
If fabric seems too much, you can use fiber to hang a colorful wall. Spin it together to create a circle, or weave it to create a small, bright centerpiece. If you have a rattan rug or other woven pieces in your living room, a fiber wall hanging does a great job of tying it all together.
Colorful Fabric Weaving
To create a textured design, weave strips of fabric together and drape them across your living room or bedroom wall. The base should hold the varying horizontal and vertical fabric strips together. You can also use colorful fabrics to weave different patterns and layers together.
Bunting Garlands
String various shapes, such as triangles, circles, or rectangles, out of fabric and tie them together on a cord. This is a fun way to make party decorations or decorations for your sunroom. Use bright, bold colors for a playful look or darker, softer colors for a moody look. You can also use rope for a more bohemian look.
Tassel Wall Hanging
Using fabric strips, make tassels out of fabric and hang them together. Layer them with a variety of colors to give the hanging texture. Or, you can use one cohesive color, like black, to give it a more modern, minimalistic look. You can also bundle fabric together to create a circle shape, followed by a triangular shape.
Fabric Mosaic
Adding a mosaic pattern to your home is a fantastic way to add depth, texture, and character to an otherwise minimalist, simple room. If your living room is mainly light, plain colors, then adding a mosaic will add as a centerpiece or focal point. Collect tiny pieces of fabric to resemble a mosaic pattern and glue them together. Use yellow, orange, and red for a bold, warm look. If you want to use cold colors, use purple, green, and blue to make your room seem more expansive.
Layered Ombre
Layer fabric scraps of similar colors create a cohesive, gradient effect. This looks great with yellows, pinks, purples, blues, and greens. You can even make several Ombres in complementary colors and display them next to one another on your living room or bedroom walls. You’ll need to make sure the colored fabric is uniform. Alternatively, you can use one giant canvas and build an ombre effect on that.
A Colorful Fabric Corner
To fill space in your room, bunch together fabric and create a dynamic, texture hanging piece. Use a variety of reds, oranges, and yellows to resemble a flame or blues, purples, and greens to resemble a waterfall. Since the primary purpose is to fill space, you can have fun with creativity!
Fringed Tapestry
For a bohemian-style tapestry that adds flair and personality, use strip designs and sew them to a large tapestry with fringe underneath. Depending on the style you want, you can use varying fringe lengths. Choose a pattern that complements the fringe for a flowy, fun look in your living room, bathroom, or bedroom.
Fun Seasonal Decorations
Holiday-themed wall art is an ideal way to celebrate changing seasons and holidays. Using fabric scrap cutouts and stringing them to a rope, you can create autumn leaves, snowflakes, or Christmas trees. You can get even more creative and create a colorful mandala with different layers and colors. Bunch together red fabric to create a rose, or use white for different snowflake shapes.
Monogram Fabric Art
Using fabric scraps, create a large letter on the rope using different fabric scraps. You can use the first letter of your last name or the first letters of your family’s names. If you have a movie room or playroom, this is a fun decoration that’ll bring liveliness to the space. Use floral or striped patterns to make it more cheery.
Colorful Fabric Hanging Pockets
For decor and function, sew several fabric scraps into tiny pockets. Use different patterned fabric, like tiny floral patterns, dots, and checkered sunflowers, and string it across your kitchen wall. You can fill the pocket with spices, utensils, or coffee beans. This is a fun way to add more storage to your kitchen that doubles as decoration!
Colorful Patchwork Pillows
Combine various fabric scraps to create a bright and beautiful pillow cover. This is a fun project with a lot of leeway. Mix and match various colors, or use one or two uniform colors for a more cohesive look. Use a variety of colors for a vibrant, bohemian look. Opt for one uniform color for a more sophisticated pillow that fits well in a minimalistic-styled home.
Striped Pillows
Use pieces and strips of fabric and sew them onto a pillow in a coordinated pattern. Have fun with this one! Collect random pieces of fabric and upcycle them for this decoration. You can use different patterned pieces of fabric to create colorful, fun stripes across your pillow. Use these in your living, movie, or kid’s rooms.
DIY Scrappy Pom-Poms
Fabric pom-poms made from bunched-up fabric are a great addition to pillows. You can make ones out of bright, colorful fabric for pillows in your kid’s playroom or use a warm, modern palette for pillows in your minimalistic living room. You can also use leftover yarn scraps to add to the fabric for extra texture.
3D Fabric Flowers
To embellish your fabric pillows, add 3D fabric flowers to the surface. Bunch up fabric and turn it into roses, or use black and yellow fabric to turn it into long sunflowers across a canvas or pillow. Decorate your sunroom couches with the pillows or mudroom walls with the canvas for a fun and inviting aesthetic.
Zippered Patchwork Case
To create extra storage space, you can create a functional zippered pillow cover from scraps you find around your home. The cover can hold cords, trinkets, small notepads, pens, hair ties, and other items frequently lost and misplaced in the home. You’ll need material to build the zipper. Attach the zipper to the length of the strip.
Soft Felted Pillows
Everyone loves cuddling with felt, so why not create a comfortable pillow using felt scraps? Make a soft, layered design across a large pillow. Mix it with other patterned fabric pieces for a checkered look if you don’t have enough felt scraps. You can also make one half of the pillow a uniform felt design and the other half a patterned fabric design.
Animal-Themed Pillows
Sew animal shapes onto plush pillows for a fun children’s design. Throw these onto beanbags in your kid’s playroom, or use them to decorate your kid’s bedroom! Invite your kids to create these pillows with you. They can choose their favorite animals and help you sew them onto their pillows.