This is the project I entered in the current challenge on Craftster: Bookworms.
Voting doesn't start until March 10th (just in case you want to vote for someone...!)
I found a tutorial to turn a book into a sewing box HERE and I knew it would be
perfect for my partner in the Book Lover's swap, which I had just started organizing
when this challenge was announced. So she got a new sewing box, and I got
something I could enter in this challenge! Win-win!
(People donate old books and the library sells them to fund their programs.)
just one cut along the inside of the spine at the front and the back, and they all came
out together. The pages aren't used in this project, so I saved them for something in
the future.
sandwiching in some ribbon to tie the box closed. I measured and cut balsa wood
into the sizes I needed to make the compartments, and used a hot glue gun to hold
them in place.
box a finished look.
circle of fabric stuffed with poly-fill and glued into one of the compartments. I made
a matching needle book to complete the package.
The most time-consuming part of this was the planning and the gathering of
supplies; I've never worked with balsa wood before and I didn't really know where
to buy it! (I ended up finding it at Michael's; in the future I will probably look for it
on-line.) I worked slowly since it was the first time I had done it, but now that I have
the experience, I think I could complete my next box in under two hours. I like the
way it turned out, so I will probably do this again, either for myself or a future swap partner.
