Turning Fabric Panels into Fabric boxes - Colorway Arts

By A Mystery Man Writer

Last updated 12 May 2024

Turning Fabric Panels into Fabric boxes - Colorway Arts

I have been making lots of cartonnage fabric boxes for a long time, but have never thought about using fabric panels until last year, when a student came to one of my classes to make a “surprise box” and brought one Christmas fabric panel. When I saw it, I thought, oh, that will be difficult, strange, not sure how that will work….but she kept making the box, coordinating that fabric with another basic, plain one, and at the end, her box surprised all of us in class. It fit perfect on the box; it was like the project was made to be used with that particular fabric! So fun! From that day….I started looking to the fabric panels with different “eyes”…you know what I mean? Looking for a perfect fabric to make some particular box! So far I have been