hi there in this video I'm going to show you something a little bit different you
can do with your quilt tops rather than just turning them into quilts all the time
I'm going tto show you how to make a DIY footstool
I have a piece of MDF from my husbands supply don't tell him! So using a
measuring tape and whatever this tool is I measured twelve by twelve I placed the
MDF on two cat litter boxes
and remember whenever you doing work like this use safety goggles safety
first I found using a hand-held circular saw
the best tool to get a straight line
using tools like this really isn't that scary but if you aren't very confident
using these tools then get your husband or whoever to do it for you you
may actually be able to get somebody at a DIY store to cut this for you too
seriously just think of it as a motorized rotary cutter. Here I am just
filing off some of them raw edges so I'm just going to paint the underside of
this MDF. I purchased some sample paint at my hardware store I've placed the
base once again on a cat litter box and I am just going to paint that underside
because I want that MDF side not to be showing so I just painted it just
like a nice pale pink and to be honest it didn't take that long to dry at all
and here we have one painted MDF it really didn't take that long it was a
hot day now I created that quilt sandwich that
we normally do when we do a quilt
I will link the video on how to create a quilt sandwich right now
at this point I jumped on my mid arm and I did some free motion quilting just to
make it look even more effective when we put it onto the footstool so in each
square I did like a sampler free motion quilt design and it was good for the
practice and right here I'm doing some squiggles so I went very geometric in
the squares and I wanted to go a little bit more circular in the border work
I love free motion quilting so much
so I wanted to give you an up-close of some of the work that I did inside the
block sections a couple of them are repeats and some of them were actually more
easier than I thought they were going to be a lot of it was done via ruler work I
really enjoyed this process and using the mid-arm has been so much easier than
just using my sewing machine
ok so I have my two pieces of foam and my wooden MDF sheet that we painted
now you are going to put the painted side face down so we're just going to
use this raw unfinished unpainted part here okay so I've got some really cheap
spray adhesive this is from the dollar store actually I got it a while ago so I
hope it actually still works so you're going to want to spray your foam ask me
how I know this? That's because i've already made one ahead of time.... a foot stool
and if you don't spray some adhesive on the foam it will actually move about on you so I'm
i'm just going to press this down. By the way this size can be any size that you want it to be
it doesn't have to be twelve by twelve I just did 12 by 12 because you know it's
already precut for me and that was the size I saw in the store. So I thought "okay that
is the size that I will use" I don't know if this is absorbed. I'm
just going to leave it to dry for a while.
So I'm going to spray the second one. Then I put that on top of the other one like so it's just not going to move
about on you now that you have adhesive and I'm just going to let them both dry before
I do anything else
So you have something that looks like this and the
glues adhered to it and it's not going to move on you so what you're going to do is place
your quilt top right sides down and then place your base there like so and then
what we're going to do now is we're going to wrap it's over. You don't
want to wrap it fully like this because we have to attach the legs and we have
to leave space for the legs to put our screws in and stuff so we're going to find
out how big we need this base to be this quilt to be on this top and I'm going to do
it about like say about an inch and a half and then i'm going to fold the edge
under and I'll show you that in a second okay so let's start making that so I've
cut it - it's about an inch and a half so what I'm going to do is I'm going to fold
it over here and I only really want a little bit touching the wooden base
it's going to be a little bit fiddly and then you're going to grab your stapler
and you're going to attach it down once you've got the first one tacked down
it's just nice and easy after that
I got these legs for IKEA and to be honest they are a little bit too big for the
project so I would highly recommend that if you doing it this small you would
need to buy four separate legs I was doing this just because it was a little
bit cheaper and I really should have seen how big the legs were before I
did the base part but hey-ho is what it is!!
the first time I did this project I did it using fur and I used an envelope
style fold don't do that because I don't like the look of it I don't think it
looks very nice I'll show you a different way so I am just going to fold
and you're going to lift this part up and you're going to have it so it's kind of
going straight down I'm going to get this in place and I'll show you in a
second this is exactly how I want you to fold it I want you to go straight up and
down on that corner right there not doing that envelope style this looks
much nicer as you can see and you may have to cut off some bulk just do
whatever you need to do in order to make that nice perfect fold you may have to
mess about with that a little bit and guys they always want you to make sure
that you've always got a little inspector by your side she's a very good
job don't you Sophie.
Here she is my finished foot stool, the furry one is the
first one I made as you can see the big size difference I kind of wish it would
made my quilted one a little bit bigger but it looks awesome
I really hope you
enjoyed watching this tutorial on how to make a DIY foot stool using a quilt top
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