Week 5 – Project 9-12
Bathroom Makeover – Designed by June Scroggin – page 41
The fabric selected for this project was a group effort. We decided to use laminated cotton for the shower cap eliminating the super thin vinyl and taking a step out of the shower cap construction. The laminated cotton selected is Erin McMorris Weekends Dots and Loops Peach. The fabric for the towels is Liz Scott Sugar Pop Painted Flowers Cream Pink and Dots Dot Dot Dot Eggplant.
(A note on the directions for the shower cap: there appears to be a misprint in the book which is not on the official errata page. Cutting the cap with a 30″ diameter resulted in a very large cap. June responded to us quickly and sent along her original pattern instructions which call for a 24″ circle.)
Week 5 – Project 13
Two Drawer File Cabinet Cover – Designed by Sharon Madsen – page 45
Tracy selected Valori Wells – Jenaveve Linen Floral Birds Garden Fresh. Tracy decided to make her own bias tape from Valori Wells – Jenaveve Linen Pebbles Teal. It required an extra 3/4 yard of fabric to create 10 yards of bias binding.
For this project you will need 6 fabric covered buttons or select 6 fun buttons 1-1/2″ in size.
How to participate: One Yard Wonders Sew Along Details
The File Cabinet Cover is so cute!
You have selected some very lovely fabrics, this is such fun to see these projects come together.
so many pretty fabrics! can’t wait to see the finished projects!
Love the file cabinet cover idea, and that fabric is divine!!! I need file cabinets and see them at the thrift store all the time, but I can’t get myself to bring them home because they are so ugly… hmmmm, I think I need to make a thrift store run.
I’ve been thinking about a file cabinet cover ~ mine has my yoga blanket over it at the moment. What a great idea!
Both are quite interesting projects, looking forward to seeing how they turn out. Of course, the fabric choices are great!
I really love the filing cabinet cover. I’m thinking of using a similar idea to cover a small bookshelf in my kids’ play room. I can’t wait to see your projects this week!
Jess
Another week of gorgeous fabric choices!
The file cabinet cover is a great idea! They look so much nicer covered in beautiful fabric. Looking forward to seeing the finished project!
I look forward to these projects every week. I am working on the bed pocket from a couple wks ago.
June is a dear friend (like you!) and she is so talented. I am so glad you are featuring her project. Clarice
I love that connection Clarice! xo Kathy
The fabric for the file drawer cover is gorgeous!!! I love the birds! And the bathroom idea is so fun! I’m planning to make some of towels and shower caps for presents this summer.
Exciting! I can’t wait to see the result!
I can’t wait to see the bathroom makeover projects completed. I might just need to get a filing cabinet so I can make a cute cover for it!!
I love the fabrics selected for these bathroom makeovers, I need to get some of the Liz Scott line. Very fun to follow along!
Wow — I REALLY can’t wait to see the finished pieces this week! Fantastic fabric choices, and really good projects too. I’ve had recovering my file cabinet on my to do list for eons. (Plus you’re using the linen that I am now lusting over thanks to your newsletter a week or two ago!!!)
The fabric choices are amazing!
What cute projects & ideas! Definitely not things you would normally think of to sew, which is fabulous!
Ahhhh I need a bathroom makeover in my new house! Such pretty pretty fabrics!
The File Cabinet cover is a cute, cute idea. I wish I could cover the huge metal credenza in our office!
Thank you for sharing all the wonderful projects!
Very pretty and so fresh!
I love these fabric selections!
I would have never thought to make covers for these items, but they work! Love it.
Love the Valori Wells prints. They are so fresh and modern. Years ago I had an ugly file cabinet I got when a store was closing. I wished I had thought of covering it back then. Great idea!
Looking forward to see how these come out! Very cute looking!
Cool! I have been meaning to try those bathroom accessories…I really love those towels!
Such beautiful color choices!
I love the file cabinet cover – I think I’ll definitely have to try that one!!
Ah! Wish I had seen this sooner–the filing cabinet cover is so lovely & I just donated a filing cabinet to Goodwill because my husband has pretty much hated it since we got married because it was so ugly (it was).
I am so tickled you are trying my bathroom makeover projects. Just to clarify the concept of “one yard”. I took the book’s mission quite seriously and made every single bathroom makeover project out of one single yard of fabric, not an individual yard per project; instead, every single project came out of just that initial one yard. What you don’t see in One Yard Wonders are the other items I made using leftover pieces; e.g., a portable watercolor kit in a basket embellished with fabric pieces from my original one yard of fabric, including a roll-up paintbrush case. I also decorated a bar of bath soap and so on. Every inch of that one yard of fabric was used to make something. There was a big lesson in doing this for me as I learned I waste a lot of fabric on just one project when I can utilize it for other things as well. Just thought I’d share this with you. Enjoy (I hope) my projects!
The Valori Wells fabrics are always so inspiring to me, you picked some beautiful ones for this project.