Most times when I go to the salvage yard they have old wooden cutlery boxes. From when people had silverware “for best”.
Being a sucker for a wooden box, I picked up this one. It was plain wood with a moulded plastic insert to hold knives and forks etc.
I ripped out the plastic liner added in a few panel pins to stabilise the base that was coming off. Then gave it a couple of coats of white paint.
I used spray glue and a bit of futzing to line it and add the fabric to the top. The green lining is a piece of vintage woollen blanket that i dyed years ago. These blankets were the standard bed covering in the days before duvets.
The fabric for the top, I bought in Joanne’s when we were in the US in 2017
The blanket is a pure wool one and would have had a similar colour to the blue one in the pic below, I think I used a regular woollen dye (it was years ago)
So the line pattern was done by you? I’d never be able to dye such straight lines. My grandparents all used to have these blankets, I think I remember a plaid one in a similar colour scheme as your dyed one. I would never have thought to use a woollen blanket for this purpose but it looks like it was always meant for this box.
Sorry I didn’t explain myself clearly. The original blanket would have been like the photo (they photo I thought I was referring to had a pink blanket as well) with the lines. I just over dyed it.
The dyeing is ready, you just need to remember not to agitate it much or it will felt. I pick up these blankets when I see them in charity shops. Generally I use them for the wadding layer of some of the quilts I make.
