Originally Posted by jpthequilter

Those are just wonderful!
Have you thought about a wall hanging of 5 squares embellished like the box top, alternated with four others =
plain or lighter or darker? ( a kind of ninepatch plan.)
Jpthequilter

Originally Posted by Eagle Hawk

Thank you for your complement on my Avatar. It is a bag I made for my small light board and it turned amazingly well. I made it to carry with me because my big light board is too big to take anywhere I hand embroidery things to put in the middle of my blocks and then CQ around each embroidery. Am I understanding right that your are relatively new at this? I haven't been doing it for long either, but have been preparing and collecting things for a long time, but you have given me so many more great ideas. Thanks for the beautiful website, too. I am really enjoying it. I love to look at the stitches that other people use and put them in my CQ's, too. It is so neat to build the stitches. I can't believe the great things I have seen people do on this board with such fantastic ideas and quality. Yours is one of the top quality.

Originally Posted by BuzzinBumble

A few other QB members have asked how to do the box and one asked that i post directions on the topic for everyone...For now, I will just be posting this answer:

I purchased set of 3 paper mache boxes at JoAnn Fabrics. That was the only way I could find the 5” size box that I needed. The 5" size fit the pin cushion lid that I made using an old CD, as directed in the IvoryBlushRoses blogspot. And there isn’t any way I could improve on her directions for the pincushion. She is the originator of that wonderful idea, not me. I only found a neat way to use it.

To cover the bottom, I glued fabric (that I machine quilted before hand) around the sides of a 5" paper mache box that I had already covered with strips of the same fabric on the edges and inside curves. I didn’t want to embellish the sides too much for fear it would visually compete with the lid. Then I made fabric covered circles to fit the inside and outside bottoms and glued those in too. The last step was to make a strip for around the inside of the box. I had originally planned to use the paper mache lid too, but it would not fit on the box after adding all that padding.

Hope that helps answer some of your questions for now.

Have a happy weekend!
Lara