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Resting My Feet: A National Craft Month Craft

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While I was compensated for this post by JoAnn Fabric and Craft Stores the ideas, thoughts, and opinions in this post are my own.

I recently decided that Mr. Home-Everyday and I needed a comfy place to rest our feet other than our coffee table. While I know there are lots of ottomans out there, I was pretty sure that I could make one myself for a pretty reasonable cost. Mr. Home-Everyday had given me some pallets to use for some projects around the house, so I had a base. Now, to find some fabric to upholster it.

 

When JoAnn Fabric and Crafts asked me to participate in National Craft Month, I knew I would be able to find the perfect fabric. There are so many great trends to take advantage of this season, but my favorite lately are all the great floral fabrics available.

I found this great floral fabric by KAS from Australia, that I love. The colors are saturated, which will match all the color going on in our family room, and it seemed durable enough for us to rest our feet.

 

Supplies:
1 pallet
4 table feet
4 feet attachment brackets
white foam cut to size (same size as top of pallet)
batting cut to size (able to be wrapped around pallet on all sides with 2 inch allowance)
fabric cut to size (able to be wrapped around pallet on all sides with 2 inch allowance)
staple gun with heavy duty staples
fabric scissors
paint
paintbrush
drill

Paint and Dry: First, I painted the feet of the ottoman. I thought it best to get this step out of the way as then I could let the feet dry while I completed the other steps.

Stack It Up: After the foam, batting and fabric are cut to the correct size, place the fabric face down on a flat clean surface. Then place the batting on top of that. In the center of the batting, add the foam. Finally, place the pallet on top of the foam.

 

Staple, Staple, Staple: Starting in the center of one of the sides of the pallet, pull the fabric and batting tight and staple. Continue to staple from the center toward the corner, (about every 3 or 4 inches apart)  but DO NOT staple the corner. Do this on each side. Finally, fold the corners in as if you are wrapping a package, hold them tightly and staple them.

 

Give It a Leg Up: Finally, using a drill, screw the attachment brackets to the underside corners of the pallet. Screw in the feet to the attachment brackets.

 

 

Finally, put your feet up and relax.

 

 

Unless, of course, some little people get there to relax before you do!

 

Linking up at Serenity Now


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A Little More Classy: Fabric Lined Cabinets

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Yesterday, I showed off our living room and dining room, and revealed at how moving a little bit of furniture can transform a room. In the dining room, you may have noticed that  our Ikea hand me down cabinets looked a little more classy. That is because I lined the back of them with some fabric I found at JoAnn Fabrics for 40% off!

This is a project that I wanted to do for ages, and while I knew it would be a transformation, I cannot believe how much better these cabinets look.

I got a little help from A Thoughtful Place, and the quick tutorial on how to line cabinets with fabric. Now that I kind of had an idea of how to do this, I got to work.

First, I did the hardest part of the project, and measured the fabric to fit exactly to the back of the shelves. I did have a bit of an allowance because I thought it would be better to finish the edges to avoid fraying and also to make the edges perfectly straight.

As most of you know, I do not own a sewing machine, so it was time for Hem Tape again. Although, this time,  I had to use the non iron hem tape. The fabric I used is indoor outdoor fabric, and I knew I wouldn’t be able to iron it.

There are several no iron hem tapes out there (Fix it Fast). They work just like a double stick tape. First, you lay the tape where you want it on the fabric. Remove the backing. Then, fold over. It is very similar to iron tape, except NO IRON.

Once everything was measured and straight, I lined the fabric up, and hot glued it to the back of the cabinet with a large dot of hot glue in each corner.

NOTE: I could only do half of each cabinet at a time because of the shelf being in the way, so I only needed four large dots of glue. However, if you were using more fabric, or lining the back of an entire shelf, I would use more glue around the perimeter to make sure it stays in place.

Finally, I loaded the shelves back up.

 

I am so happy with this transformation! It was easy, inexpensive, and really made a big difference.

Shopping: Fabric Style

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Fabric shopping, to me, is probably the most overwhelming of all shopping. I would consider myself and very experienced shopper, and I come from a long line of bargain hunters (aka cheap-o’s), but fabric shopping gets me completely overwhelmed.

There are just too many options. Too many colors. Too many textures. I wish I had the Sarah Richardson gift of being able to purchase and coordinate fabrics.
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I don’t know if any of you stopped by JoAnn last week when they were having their huge store sale and clearance, but I did, and that made the shopping more overwhelming. When all the prices are good, it is hard to narrow anything down. Also, I don’t like to shop for just one fabric when I am making something, I like to do things that coordinate to help help bring some interest to the project (which is a secret right now, sorry).
Anyway, after hours of searching, I found this set of three fabrics that met my criteria of coordinating and being a great price (they were on clearance and half off of that!) and contained neutrals that I love (crisp white, chocolate brown, and soft gray).
Now the fabric is bought, it is time to start looking at sewing machines.
Anyone else have trouble fabric shopping? Think it is overwhelming? What do you do to get through a sea of gorgeous fabric on sale?