Ribbon Board for Eye Glasses

Really need a place for your multitude of glasses, and sunglasses?  Me too.  At a spur of the moment I grabbed up a loose piece of fabric with, some spare grosgrain ribbon, a stapler, and a small stretched canvas.  (You could use any piece of wood as long as you can stretch fabric over and staple it down.)

Here’s what you do:

 

Get your supplies:

Stapler

Frame or stretched canvas

Fabric cut an inch bigger than your frame

Ribbon

Scissors

Step 1

Cut your fabric at least an inch bigger than the border of your frame.

Step 2

Flip your frame over face down on top of your piece of fabric which should also be face down. 

Step 3

Staple the middle sections of the fabric down the sides of the wood frame.  If you pull taught the fabric should not wrinkle or look uneven.  Once the centers of each side have been stapled down you can continue stapling out from the center out.  Once you get to the corners it gets trickier.  Because it is the back there is no need to be pretty about it.  I fold the fabric into one side then take the rest of the fabric and fold it over to the other side of the corner.  You should have a sort “V” shape or like a flattened cone.  **I am doing a terrible job describing this action… it won’t matter, no one will see it.**

Step 4

I don’t have a image for this but this is where you take the ribbon and place it in any directionality you would like then staple it down the frame on the back tightly.  I just did lines across which I kind of regret and may do differently later because my glasses don’t lay separately.  I even feel like I might prefer this vertical instead of diagonal because of the directionality the glasses must hang. 

Have fun with it!  Hope this gives you some good ideas.  If you wanted more of a multipurpose board you could do this over a cork board or you could create a more cushioned board just by adding some poly-fill, there are all sorts of options.  Anyway, have a great day and I hope to see you all soon.

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