Roomy Chest Of Drawers For Needlework. Master Class

Author: Julia Zhdanova

Today there will be a story about how they took me to "Weak"! It turns out that my husband doubts my abilities and, passing by, threw the following phrase: “- Is it too weak to make a chest of drawers?”. Of course - NOT WEAK!

And here's the result

To begin with, I decided on the size, it's hard to make a big one for the first time, but a small one is not interesting, so I got an average size - 60 cm wide, 30 cm deep, 40 cm high.

To make a chest of drawers I needed:

binding, beer and corrugated cardboard
kraft paper
coarse calico 3-4 colors, flax, rep tape
glue Moment Joiner, PVA furniture, glue Moment Crystal
decorative handles 5 pieces
scissors, construction knife, square, iron ruler.

From corrugated and beer cardboard I cut out the sidewalls and glue them together, be sure to lay them out under the press …

Then, under the shelves on which the boxes will stand, I cut out additional sidewalls from dense double corrugated cardboard (if you do not have double corrugation, then glue two sheets of corrugation together and it is better if the directions of the corrugation are perpendicular, the strength of such cardboard increases significantly), they are equal in height to future boxes, I make a gap of 0.7 cm between the sidewalls - this is the thickness of the shelf, when they dry out, I paste over them with coarse calico.

The thickness of the side wall of the chest of drawers I got 1 cm, here the inner part of the bottom will be smaller by this centimeter, and the outer side made of beer cardboard is larger, then the side walls will fit into a groove and the outer corner will be even and beautiful.

An additional double-corrugated panel was glued to the back wall, the upper shelf will rest on it, this panel is covered with coarse calico. It is not necessary to glue the entire back wall completely, because the top panel will be of a different color.

The middle shelf is made of double corrugation and is covered with coarse calico, but the upper shelf I got from two parts - the lower side (coarse calico) is made of corrugated cardboard, and the upper side (linen) is made of binding cardboard. I glued the fabric to the furniture PVA glue, it is thick enough and therefore does not wet the cardboard, moreover, when it dries, it does not leave marks on the fabric.

She smeared the grooves and end parts of the shelves with Moment Crystal glue and assembled the base of the chest of drawers, and now the shape appears. Honestly, it takes a lot of time to dry the parts, especially you need to make sure that the parts do not lead, so they dry under pressure. My main helpers in drying parts were a hair dryer and an ordinary iron. I ironed the dried parts with an iron (without steam) and put everything under the press, all the parts after that turned out to be even and very strong.

I made the jumpers from several layers of cardboard - binding cardboard, then corrugation and again binding cardboard, covered with coarse calico and again drying))))))))

And here is the back wall - if at first I had doubts about making a chest of drawers, now they have disappeared and my husband no longer smiles sarcastically, but looks with interest!

Now I take out a roll of kraft paper - what an excellent paper it is, it helps me a lot in the construction of houses and here it is very, very useful, before it had to be asked for at the post office, but now it turns out you can buy it at any hardware store. I glue all the corners on the dresser with Kraft paper, the corner is even and at the same time securely fixed. The width of the side wall is 30 cm, so I cut out flax 35 cm wide so that there is a sufficient bend on the back wall, as well as 0.7 cm on the front side.

I glue the side, bottom and again the side of the chest of drawers - with a linen strip - 40 cm + 60 cm + 40 cm, slightly pulling on the sides, dry with a hairdryer, and then make cuts, but not completely, leaving a 0.5 cm undercut and bend the strip inside.

The inner part of the sidewall, I cut out from the binding cardboard and covered it with linen.

I cut out a piece of linen onto the back wall, I did not fold it, because it turns out an unwanted thickness, so I take out a sewing machine and put a decorative stitch along the edge of the back part, it will prevent the edge from shattering and at the same time decorate the back wall.

Well, the base is almost ready and I start assembling the boxes.

I glued them out of binding cardboard - with Moment Crystal glue, the most important thing is to withstand the angle when the bottom of the box is glued. After drying, I glue all the corners with craft paper and glue Moment Joiner.

Then I take a piece of linen fabric, cut it out so that there is an edge at one end, I start to glue it from the middle of the end part of the box, exactly where I will have the front side. The edge should extend by about 1 cm, overlapping the edge of the strip.

It is not difficult to get a neat corner, the main thing is to cut it off not from the very edge, but to leave about 0.5 cm from the corner and glue the corner in an overlap, but make sure that the overlap is not large - 0.5 cm is enough, trimming from flax I did not throw it away, they were very useful to me to align the bottom of the box.

When dry, the flax becomes very strong and the box, accordingly, too.

Now I cut out the inner parts from the beer cardboard and glue them with light coarse calico, then glue them into the box - first the bottom, I bring the edges of the coarse calico onto the walls of the box and also glue them, the extra fastening never hurts)))) then the side walls.

I decorated the bottom of the drawers in the same way as the back wall of the chest of drawers - it turned out smoothly and beautifully. The front panel of the boxes will protrude about 0.5 cm beyond the edges of the box, I cut them out of binding cardboard and beat off with coarse calico polka dots, two tones - red and brown. The front panel is decorated with a small linen insert, I calculated how long a strip is needed for one such insert, multiplied it by three, added centimeters to the bend and cut a single strip of flax, then stitched the drawing on a typewriter and then cut this strip into three parts, the drawing turned out to be the same everywhere. I also did it for the lower drawers.

It remains only to glue the front panels to the drawers and screw on the handles.

But I have not yet made small pockets for the instrument, at first I thought to just glue the rectangle and the cells in it, but it’s not so interesting, and then I came across a paper tube, I tried it on, it looks good, but it’s only enough for two pockets, but I need 7 - 8 pieces of them, that's just what to make them from, twist them out of craft paper, it's quite long and it's hard to dry again, and then I see how my husband collected all my scraps from the corrugated cardboard and tries to shove them into the oven to put things in order and burn !!!!!!! Nightmare!!!!!!! Well, how is it possible - this is a building material, my hamster is in a swoon !!!! After a short fight, having won a victory, I twist the corrugated tubes from the scraps.

How I did it:

cut a strip with a longitudinal section from the corrugation of cardboard
then a strip of kraft paper is twice as long as a strip of corrugated cardboard
glue kraft paper
I take a paper tube, wrap a corrugation on it
pressing the corrugation tightly to the tube, I roll it over the Kraft paper smeared with glue, pick up a hot iron and again start ironing along this length of the tube, the corrugation becomes even, without corners, the craft paper sticks securely and I get a chic, even and strong tube. the diameter I need.

I make 7 such blanks, then I cut off 4 cm and I get such a half-column. I glue the blanks together with Moment Crystal glue and tighten the inner part with linen. Then I got carried away and forgot to photograph how I pasted the strips of polka dots - on the front side, but in principle, there it is already clear that the edges of the strips go into the fold and they are not visible on the front side. And for the brushes, I made a specially higher glass.