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Frankenbox A ready-made wood box gets a fused-fabric makeover. From "Uncommon Threads" episode DUCT-146

Quilt artist Frieda Anderson shows how to cover a craft box in fused fabric scraps.

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Frankenbox

Materials:

craft box
4 sheets leftover fused scraps
release paper (the paper that comes with the fusible web)
decorative rotary cutter blade
straight rotary cutter and mat
an iron that gets extremely hot
hammer, nail and piece of scrap wood
buttons
copper or colored bead wire (or copper wire from the hardware store)

Preparation:
Place scraps from previous fused projects on leftover release paper and create a collage (figure A).

1. Starting with the lid rim of the box, measure and cut out a piece of the fused collage that's as wide as the rim and about 1" longer the lid width.

2. Using your iron on the hot setting with no steam, press the first side of the lid with the cut-out strip. Repeat around the four sides, pressing down the 1" left over to the next side of the lid.

3. Place the lid top down on a piece of fused scrap and trace around the shape; then use one of the decorative blades to cut out around the shape, cutting just inside the traced line (figure B).

Figure A

Figure B

4. Fuse this to the top of the box (figure C).

5. Place the side of the box on the fused scrap and trace around the four sides.

6. With a straightedge rotary cutter, cut out the shape just inside the drawn line.

7. Repeat for all the other sides.

8. With a decorative blade, cut out four strips 1" wide and the length of the box.

9. Fold in half lengthwise and crease with your finger.

10. Place these on each of the corners of the box and fuse in place.

11. Place the lid on top of a piece of wood, determine the center of the lid and pound a hole into the lid with a hammer and nail.

12. Create a handle for the box lid from buttons.

13. Stack the buttons, largest on the bottom to smallest on the top, about 1" thick.

14. Using a piece of 26-gauge copper bead wire, thread through the buttons and down through the hole in the lid.

15. Use a larger button on the inside and a large bead to conceal the wire (figure D).

Figure C

Figure D

GUESTS :

Frieda Anderson
Website: www.friestyle.com