Tin Can Footstools

Tin cans actually are pretty aesthetically pleasing just as they are.

Tin can footstools. Tin can footstool basics six cans usually 46 oz juice cans are arranged in a circular pattern around a middle can creating a daisy shape. It needs to be large enough to completely wrap over your foot stool covering the top and sides. Aug 20 2018 i love this craft and the stories behind the stools. Carfully sew it to other cans at top and bottom.

I ve studied how they ve been made in the past and created my own contemporary method. Make sure your fabric is long enough to come up and around the top and bottom. Cut a large square of decorative upholstery fabric. Recycling tin can footstool.

So sometimes the simplest ideas can have the best effect. They re covered with upholstery roll ends. They are attached together by various means and often placed on a cardboard or plywood base. Keep adding more cans to the end can number six you sew back to the frist can to make a circle slide the last can into center.

This footstool is made from tin cans juice comes in. Now take 1 can and sew it to another turning the frist seam to the same side. Padding is placed around and on top of the cans. Wrap each can in fabris whip stitch closed thats the easy part.

Bring the fabric around the cans fold in one edge so it is not raw and hot glue the seam down side. All has to be done by hand but since i never made one i m not entirely sure how it all goes. Place the fabric onto a flat surface with the wrong side facing up. Mar 1 2012 here s my version of the juice can footstool.

Typically oatmeal food or nail cans were used to make this scalloped shape. Lay your fabric out and put the cans on it s side on the fabric. Mar 1 2012 here s my version of the juice can footstool. These tin cans have been painted with a simple design and some metallic paint and the finished effect is great.

You don t have to do much to transform a tin can into something amazing without hiding its true nature. My grandmother made one when i was little it lasted for many years. Then stand it up and evenly glue the fabric on the top and bottom. Vintage footstools made of 7 tin cans in each ask for photos of all in the collection pennsylvania origin footstools made from 7 cans.

People usually try to find fabric that matches their living room furniture to make a set of two stools. See it on. Mine won a blue ribbon at the. Decorative trim a footstool or ottoman is a great piece of furniture to have putting up your feet makes the most uninviting chair more comfortable.