fabric covered floss bobbins & treasuries

I found this tutorial for fabric covered floss bobbins the other day and thought it looked like a fun & quick project to try. Besides I have a nice zippered pouch that my embroidery supplies fit in (I learned how to embroider this past summer, inspired by a book I bought & the lovely embroidery projects I kept seeing out in blogland), so I figured some pretty fabric bobbins would be lovely.

Lovely & fun (for the most part) the project was… quick, not so much! It took forever for the glue to dry (the reason why I have floss on one bobbin in the above photo, but not the other two) and was not the very simple project that I first thought it might be.

A few tips if you decide to try this project… Do not use “Elmer’s Glue-All” even though it says for use on fabrics & was bought at the craft store, it will soak through the fabric causing you to have to toss it. A glue stick works better because it doesn’t soak through the fabric like the other glue did - although it does take forever to dry. Next time I might try picking up a specifically for fabric glue, although I hesitated doing that in the first place because technically you are also gluing cardboard to cardboard at one point & it seemed weird to use fabric glue for that. Do not try to use linen for this project, even if it is a tightly woven linen, because the glue will go through to the other side resulting in sticky fingers and more tossing of fabric bobbins into the bin. Try to view the mistakes as a learning process (oh I guess that last one is for me mostly:)

On a completely different note… I have 2 treasuries that I created on etsy today (1 is a regular treasury, and the other is located in the treasury west which is a testing area for treasuries I guess). Go take a look at them if you have a moment, both will only be up for a short time though so you better go quick:) Here and here.