Zakka Along Week 24 :: Nesting Boxes

It wasn't really easy facing this final project in the Zakka Style Sew Along, as I really didn't want it to be over.  But it needed to be done, so I got down to it. The project, by Patchwork Pottery, was highlighted by Kati of from the blue chair, who made her darling boxes of Christmas fabric. Nice idea, but I brought back some linen prints I'd used in a previous Zakka project, and once again used osnaburg as the 'main' fabric.

As usual, there was alot of chatter on flickr and other blogs about the construction method outlined in the book, but I just didn't have time to rethink that, so forged ahead as written. The only thing that truly confused me was the excess fabric used for the lining pieces. But I just trimmed after sewing each side section and continued on.

I did choose to use fusible interfacing, since that's my choice when it works, and it did fine for me here. I see why some folks chose a heavier interfacing to make the sides sturdier, but mine are totally functional, so I'm fine with them.

Really wanting to quilt through all layers was another reason I stuck with the book's method, doing a basic daisy chain on all the printed linen squares. I was a little wobbly at times, but I just kept going. And it's done.

I added an orange line of machine stitching wherever the book suggest hand-stitching, which honestly, was a lovely idea, but just wasn't going to happen for me this week.

The one part where I totally did not even look at the book was for the binding. Someone had suggested doing double-fold, which is my standard anyway, so I cut 2 1/4" strips and proceeded in normal binding fashion except, not my norm, I folded in, pressed, and stitched down by machine. It just seemed logical for this project.

The finishing construction of the boxes was tedious but it did work. Again, I understand why others opted for other methods, but in reality, this one was a viable option. And again, they're done. Sad but true.

Stay tuned for a Zakka wrap-up post, but meanwhile, linking up with LRstitched, little quilt monday, and {sew} Modern Monday.