Finished Project Ideas - Stitchin' Littles

Use a 5″ paper mache’ nesting box from a craft store. Hot glue your canvas to the lid before decorating the box. We used Simply Striped SL-01. Cover the box with fabric, strengthened with fusable webbing and decorate with ribbons, trims, and decorative ball feet. Line the inside and bottom with felt to cover the fabric edges.

SL-2 Basic Bars canvas is used here as a pillow insert in a 10″ x 10″” pillow. Any of the canvas colors can be accented to completely change the look.

SL – 3 Two Blooms is shown here, using a 5 x 5 sturdy wooden frame from the dollar store. Paint the frame in coordinating colors with 2 coats of acrylic craft paint. Trim the canvas to a 1/2″ edge beyond the stitching, folded it back and hot glue it, checking for fit before gluing back each side. Put a few dabs of hot glue on the canvas back and tuck into place. Add decorative details as desired.

Using SL-4, Sunny Sail design, we cut 2 thicknesses of foam core board 5″ x 5″ and hot glued them together. Then wrapped the canvas around the foam board and glued it snugly on the back. Cover the edges with any trim you want and glue or use decorative pins if you like. We used a thin piece of card board cut to fit our frame, and covered it with a coordinating fabric using fusable webbing. We found a watery look fabric in our stash so we went with that. We centered & glued it to the fabric covered board and inset it in a shadow box from a craft store.

Here’s the SL-7 Sunshine, in a dollar store frame, painted to coordinate. We folded & glued back the canvas edges, then glued the canvas into the frame. It can be hung up or used as a standup.

SL-8 Patchwork was used here. We stitched it onto a piece of coordinating fabric, edged with lace and finished our 12″ x 12″ pillow with ruffles, eyelet trims and craft store buttons.

Hootie, SL-9, is one of our favorites. This is an 8″ x 8″ photo album from Hobby Lobby, but you can make a journal cover or Bible cover as well. We lined the lightweight fabric with fusible webbing to make it sturdier but you can also also use a bit heavier fabric. We made it by folding the fabric like the old paper bag book covers, (find a Grandma for help =), and then stitched along the upper and lower edges to keep its’ shape. The edges of the Hootie canvas were trimmed to 3/8″ beyond the stitching and centered and hot glued on the finished cover. We then glued on trim to cover raw canvas edges.

White Sparkle, SL-11, is a 5″ round design. We added sequins, and beads to the centers of the squares. Hot glue several layers of foam core board together to create the thickness you want to match the edging you choose to cover the sides. Hot glue the canvas, snipping & folding the edges around the sides. Cover with ribbon, felt or fabric. Extra trim bindings can be used around the edges and a ribbon for trim. A hanging cord was glued securely to the top.

Another functional favorite, our Red Sparkle canvas, SL-12, was used to decorate a box top. We got a 5″ round paper mache’ box from Amazon (to save hunting for the right size). We sturdied up our red suede fabric with fusible web, (a long rectangle shaped piece wrapped lengthwise around the box, with a seam on one side) then glued it with craft glue around the box tucking in an inch over the top edge inside the box and another inch wrapped under the bottom of the box, all glued in place. A 5′ round felt piece was glued to the bottom and felt was cut to fit inside the box and glued in place covering the raw edges of the outside fabric. The lid is left plain inside so it slides easily over the box. Coordinating ribbon was glued around the sides, and an extra trim and ribbon were added to the top edge.

Later Gator, Sl-13, is another simple frame idea, painted to match the canvas design.