FABric Memo Board - Tutorial

So I started out this week wanting to make something for my god-daughters birthday and thought this would be a good idea.

It was easier than I expected it to be with just a few fiddley bits and I am really pleased with the result - hope she will like it too!

You will need

A Cork Board
A piece of fabric about 1" bigger all around
A piece of batting about 1/2" bigger all around
Ribbon ( I used about 4 metres for this one )
Buttons
A good scissors ( to cut the fabric )
A Staple Gun
Needle & Thread






Lay your fabric (wrong side up) and batting down with the cork board on top.
Centre the corkboard and insure there is enough fabric and batting to fold over the frame.

Starting at the top center roll the fabric and batting and using the staple gun attach to the frame. Then pull the fabric and batting tight and do the same in the centre of the bottom and at the sides. Make sure that you are pulling the fabric and batting tight for each staple. Staple the midlle of each side as well before continuing.

You should end up with the back looking like this




and the front like this



Then lay your ribbons criss-crossing corner to corner first pinning the top and bottom. You can staple these but with the excess material at the corners the staples may not hold. I had to stitch these on. Then add more ribbon criss- crossing from the top centre to the side centres and from the side centres to the bottom centre.

At the points were the ribbons cross sew buttons tightly to give the quilted effect. Gluing them does not do this and although it was a slower process to sew through cork board it was worth it.

and Ta Da!