Cube Finish

Materials Needed
Tacky Glue
Straight Pins
Quilt Batting
Styrofoam Cube (either one premade or one you cut to the dimensions needed)
Scissors
Iron
Ribbons
Complimentary Material
Pearl Headed Pins

STEP ONE:

Take complimentary material and make a strip that will go the entire circumference of your cube and cut it wide enough that you can fold it over a couple of times with the resulting width the same width as the side of cube.

Then make a strip of tacky glue down the side of the fabric:

FOLD over that side and then make a strip of glue on the top, bottom and side of the other edge of the fabric:

FOLD that edge onto the other folded edge and make sure that the width matches the width of your styrofoam:

Lightly iron with a hot iron to flatten and make the edge straight; then set aside:

STEP TWO:

Cut two pieces of quilt batting to fit the front and back of the styrofoam "cube". Lightly glue the batting into place on the front and back:

This is what it looks like when this step is complete:

STEP THREE:

Center your stitched front onto the front of the cube (to "aid" in centering...place some pins around the stitched piece embedded into the cube so the fabric will not move - they will be removed once the stitched piece is attached permanently to the face of the cube):

STEP FOUR:

Choose a "side" to work on and lay a strip of tacky glue down the center:

Place straight pins along the edge of the fabric to hold in place (these will pins will stay in place for the lifetime of your cube - do not remove!):

STEP FIVE:

Continue in this fashion glueing and folding the fabric around (like wrapping a present) all the way around the cube:

*HINT* don't be shy with using the pins they add stability (in my opinion) to the peice!

STEP SIX:

Remove the pins from the stitched piece face and now you have a mounted front!:

STEP SEVEN:

Do the back the same way you did the front either using a stitched "signature" square or using complimentary material (the same or different that you used for the fabric strip in step 1). Here, I used a signature square for my back face:

STEP EIGHT:

Lay a strip of glue crosswise on the top (or bottom of the cube) - Here I did it on the top, but in my thinking on making this tutorial, all will be hidden and not as much attention to detail for hiding pin heads if you do it on the bottom:

STEP NINE:

Place the strip of material on top of the glue line and pin down with straight pins:

STEP TEN:

Tightly wrap the fabric strip around the cube until you get back to the starting point:

STEP ELEVEN:

Lay another strip of glue across teh edge of the fabric starting place:

FOLD the edge of the raw edged strip over and press down into the glue (this will hide the pin heads from the previous step):

Here's what it should look like up to this point:

STEP TWELVE:

Add a fancy bow with ribbons and hold into place by using pearl headed pins:

Series of pearl headed pins I placed to make a design!

It's complete! You have a lovely stand-up Cube FINISH!!!!

LOVELY!