After She Placed Buttons On A Piece Of Cardboard, She Made Something That Organized Her Stuff In A Beautiful Way!

DIY TUFTED ORGANIZING PIN BOARD

Supplies:

• Large piece of thin MDF
• Large piece of cardboard about this same size as the MDF
• Metal buttons that are meant to be covered.
• batting
• fabric of your choice
• needle/thread
• Tacky spray glue

Directions:

After figuring out where she wanted the buttons to be and doing the math to lay them out evenly spaced on the board, she traced where the buttons would go.  Then she followed the directions on the button package to cover the buttons nice and tight with the fabric. I’ll let her explain from there…

According to talesfromacottage:

Time for the batting!! I used just enough to cover the length and width of the card board. I used spray adhesive and adhered it to the opposite side of the cardboard.

I then centered the cardboard on the cut fabric with the marked side facing me.
Using the marked circles as a guide, I started from the front, (the fabric side) and began sewing on the covered buttons. I looped it through probably 4-5 times and finished up in the back pulling it tight.

I also taped down the thread on the back side for extra security. I centered the tufted cardboard on the MDF and folded the corners neatly over the back of the MDF and used a staple gun to secure it all the way around the outside edge of the board.

Lastly, she attached hooks on the back for hanging.  Pretty amazing what you can do with some cardboard and a staple gun (and a few other supplies)!

This looks amazing!

You could make it even fancier with a frame, too!

Have you ever DIYed a pin board of any kind?

Thank you to talesfromacottage for this great tutorial and pics!  See her site for more pics and deets.