EMBELLISH A ROUND CARDBOARD BOX
 | - You can find the models presented in the picture in the following files (4 models per files) - At the garden. - At the kitchen garden. - Spring flowers. - Revival. |
SUPPLIES:
| - Cardboard round box (3" diameter). - 1 piece of cardboard 4" x 4". - Glue for fabric or ordinary white glue transparent once cured. - White linen 30 ct (Permin's Antic White) 4.7" x 4.7" - 4" x 4" piece of felt. - Strong floss. |
ASSEMBLY:
| - Cut a disk on the cardboard with the same diameter as the cover of the box (in my case 3.2"). - Sand lightly the edges. - Cut a disk in the felt sing the cardboard disk as a guide. - Find the center of your embroidery and draw a circle 3" in diameter and another one of diameter 4". - Découpez la toile autour du cercle de 10 cm. |
 | - Paste the cardboard disk. |
 | - Glue the felt. - Adjust the felt to the cardboard disk by cutting the excess. |
 | - Thread a strong floss at 1/4" from the edge. Leave about 4" on both floss ends. |
 | - Place the felted disk on the embroidery, the felt against the back of the embroidered linen. - Maintain the cardboard disk firmly with a finger and pull with care both ends of the floss so that the linen gather around the disk. - Tighten until you have a reverse. |
 | - Make a knot to fix the fabric reverse and cut the excess of floss. |
 | - Iron lightly the linen gathers in order to flatten them. |
 | - Paste the cardboard under the linen gathers. - Put some weight on top your work (a good dictionary should do. The power of knowledge!). - Let it cure a few minutes (>10 min). |
 | - Paste all the back of the disk, included the reverse linen. |
 | - Place the assembled disk on the top of the round box. - Put some weight on top of it. - Let the glue cure completely (from 20 min to 24 hours depending on the type of glue. This is still a good time to read the small prints on the tube!). |
FINISHING:
| I chose to keep it simple for the finishing touch and I did not mask the cardboard of the box. Therefore I give you two finishings, altough only your imagination can limit you. |
 | The easiest finishing: - Glue a thin fantasy binding around the edge (about 12" long). |
 | The more elaborate finishing: - Here I glued 12" of binding around the cover and around the box on the lower part. - Cut the binding (clean cut) and let it overlap at the place where the box has a join or a groove. Glue the binding. - Mask the edge of the disk on the cover with a floss ( 3 turns with a red embroidery floss - 6 strands). - Stop the floss by stitching it with one strand. |
 | - I chose 3 colours of floss (cardboard colour, colour of the embroidery, and red). - Tighten a beige knot at the 4 "corners" of the cover. To do the knot, thread the brown floss in the linen behind the floss that masks the edges. Do a simple knot and cut a length of 0,6". - Do it again with a green floss by positioning the 4 green knots in between the 4 beige knots. - Finish with 8 red knots in between each of the other knots ( red is the colour less present on the object). |
 | - Put a drop of glue on each knot. You can use a stick as shown in the picture. |
 | - Et voilà, it is gorgeous! - By the way, BBQ sticks leads me to the next topic. Have a look, you will love it! |