fabric ribbon pin board
I came up with this idea last night when I was trying to sleep. I wanted to put something on the door of my new craft storage solution (wardrobe, pictures to be posted) that I could pin stuff to and I thought, why not make one myself? the concept is fairly simple, so today, I set to work. I had all the necessary materials on hand except the ribbon:
- Cardboard for the backing
- Fabric
- Buttons
- Ribbon
- Stuffing
- Staples
Unfortunately, the padding I used is too wide to allow the wardrobe door to close while mounted on it, so I may have to put it on the outside of the door, or maybe on the side. I actually think it looks like a giant pillow, but I guess that's alright. The whole thing only took a couple hours, and considering this was all improvised, I'm fairly pleased.
I measured the space I wanted the board to fit in my wardrobe.
After digging through my stash a bit, I chose my fabric and ironed it.
For the backing I used the box that our new tv came in. I thought the plastic handle could be used to hang the finished piece, so I used a section of the box that had the handle in it. I used the measurements to draw my cutting guidelines and used an exact-o knife to cut.
I specified the tv box because it is super thick cardboard; I'm not sure this project would work with standard cardboard boxes.
Once the cardboard was cut, I used it to cut the fabric to size, leaving an allowance to attach the fabric to the backing.
I laid out the ribbon on top of the fabric for placement, but in retrospect, I should have drawn an outline for where the edges of the cardboard backing was so I knew what size it was because the ribbon ended up being too widely spaced.
I first sewed the buttons to the ribbon and fabric so it would all stay in place when everything was put together.
Again using the cardboard backing as a template, I cut some old mattress padding. Thinking that the padding would need space to expand when compressed by the fabric, I cut the padding a little short. But the padding remained the same size when I squished everything together, so next time I'll cut it to size.
I tugged the fabric tight and stapled each side to the cardboard, stapling one side, then its opposite side. The back isn't finished nicely, but I was planning to adhere it to the inside of the door anyway.
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