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My Craft Room Make-Over: How to Upholster a Tin Can

January 14, 2009

This is a fun and easy way to make an ordinary can look fabulous. All you need to do it is a bit of fabric, a scissors, an iron, a hot glue gun and a can.

 

First cut your fabric to fit the circumference and height of your can PLUS a couple of inches in both directions. Press the top and bottom edges down/up. Press ONE SIDE of the fabric in. Center your can on the fabric. Roll the fabric around the can and hot glue the pressed finish edge over the raw edge of your fabric. It helps if you use a little hot glue to keep the raw edge in place as you roll up the fabric.

Although this works great for any can that doesn’t have a sharp edge inside–notice the soup can had a pop top, which worked great–the decorative tin pictured below, which I found at my craft store on sale for a dollar, turned out particularly well. (For instructions on how to make the cube memo/picture clip, check out this post.)

(Originally posted at Curbly.)

3 Comments leave one →
  1. January 24, 2009 3:21 pm

    How do I keep my diesel fuel from jelling when it’s 40 below ?????

    • diymaven permalink*
      January 25, 2009 9:15 am

      Not exactly my area of expertise, but if you really need to know, I can ask one of my brothers. ;)

  2. dewonangus permalink
    January 15, 2009 12:50 pm

    Well done! It looks fabulous.

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