| 1. Iron batting and
flannel to remove any wrinkles. Your flannel and batting
needs to be approximately 2" - 3" wider than foamcore
board all the way around. Because I was using scraps of
batting and making 2 boards, I needed to sew together 2 pieces of
batting to make it large enough for 1 of the boards. The
seam won't show when it's covered with the flannel though. I
think you could use felt instead of flannel. You probably
wouldn't need the batting then. I used the batting with the
flannel to give it just a little more padding in case I want to
pin something to the board. |
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2. Tape down the
edges of the batting all the way around the foamcore with your
duct tape. (Yes, I'm using *purple* duct tape.) :o)
I formed the corners using the method shown below. |
| 3. To make the
corners, cut off the first edge that was taped down for each
corner flush with the edge of the foamcore. |
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4. On the next
side, make an angled cut. |
| 5. Fold the edge
over and tape down with duct tape. After you have the
battting taped on, repeat the procedure with the flannel. |
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6. Here's one of my
finished ones. I was a little disappointed with how my
corners turned out with the flannel. The corners were a
little tough to form neatly because I only had about an inch of
flannel at the top and bottom. I purchased the flannel quite
a while ago and only bought a yard because I was only planning to
make one board. It wasn't quite enough to do both boards
with a 2" - 3" edge at the top and bottom. |
| 7. My plan is to
keep it covered with blocks from WIPs so that I don't dwell on the
corners. :o) These are small landscape blocks that I
started during a Quilt
University class. I need to stitch around the edges of
my appliqued pieces, machine quilt the blocks and maybe add some
other embellishments. |
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