Fabric Boxes with French Seams Tutorial
10-31-2014, 04:53 AM
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Originally Posted by SewExtremeSeams
Thank you everyone for your kind comments.
I wanted to add that if I do another 15" square, I will probably make my corners smaller thereby making a shorter but fatter box.
I wanted to add that if I do another 15" square, I will probably make my corners smaller thereby making a shorter but fatter box.
10-31-2014, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Aurora
When you did your French Seam you removed another 1/2" (3 1/2" total) from each corner which made your box taller.
11-01-2014, 07:04 AM
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[QUOTE=SewExtremeSeams;6434670]My tutorial shows you how to make French Seams when constructing a Fabric Box as first shown to us on http://seaside-stitches.blogspot.com...-tutorial.html.
Thank you for making this tutorial available, along with the one you adapted from.
Thank you for making this tutorial available, along with the one you adapted from.
11-01-2014, 10:15 AM
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Yes, elnan, my hat is off to seaside stitches blogspot for starting this whole fad. I wrote to her and asked her permission to make a tutorial on her boxes with the French Seams. The French Seams were a challenge to myself since I, at the time, had not made French seams in YEARS.
12-12-2014, 01:49 PM
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I used your tute and didn't do the French seams, just sewed those corners down and found that it fit nicely over a tissue box. So the first one I made I just tore off the top of the box and left it in there for holding buttons. The next one I made I zigzagged a large circle in the center before I sewed the corners and then put it over a tissue box for the tissues to come out of the hole. My husband loves it and thinks it would be cute quick Christmas gifts for my co-workers. So far I have done 6 of them. I am finally using all those fat quarters I have been saving for a "rainy day". Thanks for the tute!
12-15-2014, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by pyffer3
I used your tute and didn't do the French seams, just sewed those corners down and found that it fit nicely over a tissue box. So the first one I made I just tore off the top of the box and left it in there for holding buttons. The next one I made I zigzagged a large circle in the center before I sewed the corners and then put it over a tissue box for the tissues to come out of the hole. My husband loves it and thinks it would be cute quick Christmas gifts for my co-workers. So far I have done 6 of them. I am finally using all those fat quarters I have been saving for a "rainy day". Thanks for the tute!
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