This week I got to do something a little different. Along with one of my buddies in our sewing class, we made fabric covered boxes. We used kits available at
The Quilt Shop, it came with pre-cut sturdy card, box corners and precise instructions. All we needed to add was our choice of fabric and some pva glue!
I've been dying to use this funky range of fabric for AGES but couldn't decide what to make with it. Well, this was the perfect chance and I chose to use the umbrella design. It has lots of colours in it and there are some beautiful co-ordinates in the range but I picked the red spots to co-ordinate with it........because it's a little more girlie!
If you like getting crafty, this is a super project, you get to mess around with glue and for a change it's a no-sew project!
And we got to bash around with a hammer............ great for working out the frustrations of the day! ;)
This box is about 13.5" square. It's called a block box because it's useful for storing your 12.5" patchwork blocks flat.
I know this box is going to get great use......... I have been putting
in the blocks I'm currently working on, they're not 12.5" but it's the
perfect spot to keep them until they're ready to be stitched together!
It was easy to make but it does take a little time - all in all, I would
say about 3 hours but in that, as this was my first time making one,
some of that time was spent checking and double checking that we were
doing it correctly.
I think you end up with something a little funky
for your efforts!
