Place-mat Noticeboard

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Creating means finding a new space to organise myself, at least that’s what it means for me, today. Being in a rental I enjoy finding new ways in adding usable wall space without ruining the wall (haha). With some left-over heavy-duty cardboard and a coastal orientated placemat, I found (when cleaning and de-cluttering the house) I started to ponder ideas on what can these become.
I needed a larger noticeboard and got thinking how these materials could work toward something beneficial. Firstly, the cardboard needed to match the size of the circular placemat, so that was painstakingly established. Then some colour needed to be incorporated and to match my already coastal orientated theme around the house I used teal, navy and white. To make things more interesting I decided to squirt the paint randomly all over the cardboard. Then to paint it I would just use one stroke in the circular direction, starting outside and working in to create a mixed colour board. Then set to dry.




Once dried I put my placemat over the top and using twine, I threaded into a large sewing needle (like one you may use for mending woolen projects) utilising the buttonhole stitch method (or blanket stitch, which ever you know it by) around the edges to seal the placemat together to the cardboard. When coming back to the original stitch I tied it up and knotted several times to ensure it all stays together.

Then I worked a new knot into the stitch before and ensured the twine was double thickness with a gap of 9 stitches leave some slack in the string as this will be what you use to hang the noticeboard by. Tie off on the 9th stitch.

Ta-da new exciting wall space as decoration and practical for noticeboard things. Good to keep near a kitchen or entrance to grab that shopping list off!




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