Fun with Folded Fabric Boxes: All No-Sew Projects, Fat-Quarter Friendly, Elegance in Minutes

By Crystal Mills and Arnold Tubis

A Bounty of Boxes to Fashion From Fabric & Paper. Quick and easy no-sew techniques for making beautiful origami boxes with our easy-to-follow how-to illustrations and photos. Make in a variety of sizes-and have fun embellishing them! There is no limit to the ways you can use these impressive boxes: pretty storage, home decor accents, gift boxes, party favors...Inspired by a traditional folded Japanese box (masu), the boxes can be funky, lavish, or elegant depending on the materials you choose. Perfect for fat quarters or those special papers you've been saving. Includes lots of embellishment ideas.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: May 25, 2007
• ISBN: 9781571209672

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fun with folded fabric boxes

∎ All No-Sew Projects  ∎ Fat-Quarter Friendly  ∎ Elegance in Minutes

Crystal Mills and Arnold Tubis

Text © 2007 Crystal Mills and Arnold Tubis

Artwork © 2007 Crystal Mills and C&T Publishing, Inc.

Publisher: Amy Marson

Editorial Director: Gailen Runge

Acquisitions Editor: Jan Grigsby

Editor: Lynn Koolish

Technical Editors: Georgie Gerl and Wendy Mathson

Copyeditor/Proofreader: Wordfirm Inc.

Cover Designer: Kristy Zacharias

Design Director / Book Designer: Christina D. Jarumay

Illustrators: Crystal Mills and Kirstie L. Pettersen

Production Coordinators: Kerry Graham and Kirstie L. Pettersen

Photography by C&T Publishing, Inc., unless otherwise noted

Published by C&T Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 1456, Lafayette, CA 94549

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mills, Crystal Elaine.

Fun with folded fabric boxes : all no-sew projects, fat-quarter friendly, elegance in minutes / Crystal Mills and Arnold Tubis.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-57120-399-1 (paper trade : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-57120-399-0 (paper trade : alk. paper)

1. Box making. 2. Origami. 3. Ornamental boxes. 4. Textile fabrics. I. Tubis, Arnold, 1932- II. Title.

TT870.5.M55 2007

736'.982--dc22

2006031543

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We’d like to express our thanks to the following individuals:

V’Ann Cornelius, Florence Temko, and Jan Polish of Origami USA for their encouragement and promotion of our single-square origami box designs.

Leon Brown, Ian Harrison (British Origami Society), and Steve Rasmussen (Key Curriculum Press) for their role in initially bringing some of our box designs into book form.

V’Ann Cornelius, Louise Cooper, Boaz Shuval, and Charlene Morrow for their support and helpful suggestions in our previous work on origami boxes.

Charlene Morrow, Jennifer Burge, Connie Culbertson, and Bonnie Larsen for testing the folding diagrams, and for their creative input and suggestions for embellishing our fabric boxes.

The magnificent staff at C&T Publishing, especially Jan Grigsby, Lynn Koolish, Georgie Gerl, and Luke Mulks, for their warm