Plaid Gift Box Ornament – Free Plastic Canvas Pattern

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I was so excited to sign up for this blogger ornament exchange. When we signed up, we each had to put our likes and dislikes, and our theme if we had one. My partner’s request was for something Rustic/Woodland with darker reds & greens, natural & neutral tones as the likes, and very bright colors as the dislikes. I took a trip to Hobby Lobby, and looked at their ornaments to get a better idea of the Rustic/Woodland theme. While there, I saw a gift box that I thought would be so neat if worked in plaid, with a burlap inspired bow.

At first, I stressed a little trying to think of how I would crochet this to look how I wanted. Days passed before I remembered that this ornament just had to be handmade, not necessarily crocheted – phew! It was then I turned to my first love – plastic canvas.

This year, we have 50 talented bloggers sharing their Christmas ornament tutorials and helping to host the handmade ornament exchange link party! Make sure to stop by the 2018 Ornament Exchange Link Party to meet the hosts, see all the great ornament DIYs, and share your own at the link party! Also, thank you Erlene of My Pinterventures for putting this awesome blog hop together!

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Materials:

• Worsted Weight Yarn – I used Hobby Lobby’s I Love This Yarn in Black, Cranberry, and Fire Red, and two strands of Baby Bee’s Sweet Delight Yarn in the Teddy colorway
• Tapestry Needle
• 7 Mesh Stiff Plastic Canvas – Less than a sheet
• Hot Glue Gun, and Sticks
• Optional, Jewelry Pliers to help with weaving

Material Notes:

Yarn Alternatives: Red Heart’s Super Saver (my favorite for plastic canvas!), Caron’s One Pound, Bernat’s Super Value.

I used yarn out of my stash. For the burlap inspired color, I used two strands of a lightweight (#3) yarn held together to equal worsted weight.

The box adds a lot of extra time. Alternatively, you could use ribbon, and a store bought bow, or any embellishment/s.

Time Spent:

I worked my ornament up in a few days, for a total of about 16.5 hours – a labor of love.

Measurements:

The finished cube is 3″ wide/tall. With the bow, it measures 3.25″ Wide by 3.5″ Tall.

Pattern Notes:

If you want to make a smaller/larger ornament, subtract/add three holes.

Patterns:

Tutorial:

Plaid Box

First things first, you’ll need to cut six squares out that are 19 holes.

Begin stitching on the black.

Add in the fire red. After completely each little square of the fire red, run the needle under the previous colors square to keep a nice clean back.

Lastly, add the cranberry, carry the yarn the same way as the fire red.

With some black, whipstitch the box together. First I started with the four sides, making sure to line up the plaid pattern. Then, I added the top, and bottom – these the plaid color pattern won’t line up, but no one will really see these much anyway.

To carry my yarn for the seams, I just pulled it across the back of the square – this will be on the inside, and not seen.

The basic cube is done! You could always stop here, and use as an ornament, or decor piece, or embellish with ribbon and a store bought bow… Or continue on!

Bow

These are all the pieces for the bow – top is the main bow, under that is the center of the bow, bottom left are the side pieces, and the two crosses are for the top, and bottom. I did mess up originally though (as shown above). The bow center should have been cut one hole longer, and the side pieces should have been cut 2 – 3 holes longer. When I first cut them, I didn’t take into consideration the fact that the yarn would add bulk, but I did draw it out correctly on the patterns provided.

Was trying to get these photographed outside in the natural light before I ran out of it. Minus the top bow center, all the rest are stitched up as they should be – leaving the tops, and bottoms unworked, so they can be worked over later in the assembly of the bow. The bow has the center stitches missing to lessen the bulk, and the left and right sides are left unworked for now so they can be worked through later to secure the box closed in the back.

Here in a close up of the bow…

Here I have lost my natural lightening, and been forced inside with my desk lamp. Forgive the bad lightening in the next photos!

To finish stitching the main bow part, bring the left and right sides together, overlapping by one hole, and stitch normally through both layers, then complete the row to the right, as normal, and finish by whipstitching.

This is what the front will look like (before the center strip is added).

This is what the back will look like (before the center strip is added).

To add the center strip, work is similarly to the box sides – leaving the top, and bottom whipstitches unworked. Wrap this strip around the center of the bottom making sure the unworked top and bottom are on the wrong/back side of the bow, and then whipstitch closed.

Assemble the Bow!

Lay one of the crosses on the top of the box. Line up the side pieces, and whipstitch closed.

Since I didn’t have the bottom cross to whipstitch on to secure the bow pieces, I used hot glue to glue the side pieces, and top cross in place.

A few photos back, I mentioned that my pieces weren’t originally cut long enough – so here I was only able to whipstitch closed, and had to omit the bottom cross because the side pieces stopped at the bottom black whipstitch – can you see it in the picture above? If you cut the pieces longer like I mentioned, it will all work out perfectly to whipstitch all the way around.

Glue the bow in place, and voila!

To hang, I threaded my needle with some yarn, ran it under the center of the bow, and tied a small bow, though I think the box could just be sat on a branch, or even a mantel or shelf.

Please feel free to make and sell your own Plaid Gift Box Ornaments using this pattern, but please DO NOT claim this pattern as your own nor should you sell my pattern, and DO NOT re-publish my photos as your own. DO NOT copy and paste my pattern anywhere, link to it instead.

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