Monday, March 5, 2012

Magazine Reed Box

I had seen this magazine reed box at Craftzine long back and wanted to try it sometime. I decided to turn a sturdy shoe box into a reed box. Here are the results..



It hasn't turned out to be as great that as shown in Craftzine but I learnt couple of valuable lessons.
1. I thought making a magazine reed is very simple, but I realized it is not so. As says in the instructions, placing the skewer at 45 degree is IMPORTANT.

2. I just read the instructions twice probably, overlooked many things.
So after making few reeds, I glued them to one side of the box. After gluing, it was the time to cut the reeds to the length, exactly that of the box. Here I failed miserably. The reeds weren't getting cut evenly by the scissor. Later I read the instructions carefully, there is one sentence which says 'you can also cut the reeds to size before you glue them in place'. Then it was simple.
Now I am more confident for my next magazine reed project.


6 comments:

  1. Your reed box looks colorful and quite neat, considering it's your first time trying. Handmade things are such a joy, isn't it? Do you plan to store something special in it?

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  2. This is very nice...thanks for dropping by at my blog.

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  3. Yeah, handmade things bring happiness to self. I have put embroidery threads in them, keeping out of reach from my two year old son. The moment he sees it, he will try to pull out the reeds.

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  4. Hi Vasudha.
    Nice blog and very creative ideas. I used to make there reed boxes and trays about 2 decades back :-) Then i graduated to some paper sculptures... Will post about them sometime.

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  5. Thanks Sangeeta. I have been your blogs fan since long time and love to check out your blogs whenever I have time.

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  6. Very brilliant loved the red box over ur magazine box

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