Posts Tagged ‘material’
How To Cover Up An Ugly Corkboard
Corkboards get so gosh darn ugly! Once you poked all the holes in them, and the cork starts coming apart etc… not cool. Anyway, they ARE really quite handy- so I covered one of mine up with some cheap material from IKEA! SO easy. You should have a go!
Step 1. Take your fugly corkboard, and buy some funky fabric!
Step 1
Step 2: Measure out your fabric so that it’s about 2-3 inches wider on each side. Position your corkboard on top, in the middle.
Step 2
Step 3: Get a hot glue gun ready (heated) with some extra glue sticks.
Step 3
Step 4: Run the glue gun along the short side of the corkboard, on the wood. If you feel like the glue is drying before you’re done (this happened with mine cause my glue gun is old and not heating as hot as it use too), then do about 5cm at a time.
Step 4
Step 5: Once you’ve done the short side STRETCH the fabric so that it’s pulled tight, and glue on the other short side. Turn in the corners, like you can see in the picture above (step 4), and add a bit more glue to those.
Step 5
Step 6: Make sure that everything is glued on well, turn it over, and hey presto! A cute looking cork board!
Step 6
You could make these to hang on the wall just as a decoration as well. OR you could just put one photo in the middle to ‘frame’ it, or make a bit of a collage that can be displayed. Lots of options- GREAT for making the craft/kids/study room/s a bit more bright and interesting!
The Bag Bag….
The night before last we finished all our TV series we were watching (LOST & Fringe mostly- WOW to the endings of both!!), which meant that last night I got the opportunity to do some more creative things! I had just been grocery shopping, and had left over plastic bags (yes, sometimes I use plastic bags- they’re handy for bins and such!). I don’t really have anywhere to put them, and had just been stuffing them in spare spaces in the kitchen! So I decided to do something about it!
The idea of the bag bag is simple enough- I didn’t use a pattern, and don’t have one for you either, you can just make it how you want. The basic idea though is to get a piece of material the length you want the bag bag to be (plus extra for turning over). Mine was 70-odd centimeters long, and 40-odd centimeters wide. I just folded it in half and ironed it all flat. Because I was using a scrappy piece of material, I ironed over where I wanted to sew the edges together.
Once that was sewn up I folded over the edges, and sewed around each.
Once they were folded over I just cut a little hole in it (this is all inside out by the way), so that I could tread through the straps I’d made. You could obviously use elastic, or ribbon, or a rope… anything really. I liked the idea of using something I could tie so that I could adjust it once I’d started using it.
Thread it through…
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Now, this was my only little idea that I actually had myself (the rest has been basic, and the same as any other I’ve seen…). For the top, I used a longer cord, and instead of gathering it till it was the right size and then tying it off there, I just tied it at the end of the cords, so that I had a hanger!
Now it’s hangin’ in my pantry lookin’ all dandy! This was REALLY easy to make, so you should give it a try and then let me know how it went!
Tags: bag, cloth, fringe, howto, kitchen, lost, material, orange, plastic, Sewing, tutorial, useful
My Sewing Bag…
If you follow my tumblr then you would have seen a link to the tutorial for a cute little sewing bag! Well, I’ve made my own (of course, with a few modifications).
Now, after a while I got confused with the instructions, and had a wave of inspiration, so I sewed mine a little differently. I hand stitched the entire sides together at the ends, and sewed the bottom together as well, so I ended up with a few more pockets. Unfortunately my iPhone does the colours of the fabric no justice. Imagine them much more intense!
I also only used 6 pieces of material, not 8, but still managed to get an extra pocket… If you want more details on how to do that then let me know if the comments!
If you want to do this craft, then you can look at the tutorial here.
Tags: bag, fabric, instructions, material, pockets, Sewing, tutorial, vintage
