Ruby Star Wrapping :: Ruby Star's Chinese Takeout Box

After receiving a copy of Melody Miller and Allison Tannery's new book, Ruby Star Wrapping, at Sewing Summit, you can imagine how pleased I was to see Amy start up her Ruby Star Wrap-Along! There are lots of clever and useful project ideas in the book, and while I don't plan on doing every one like I did with the Zakka Sew Along, I do hope to do the ones that especially capture my fancy.

And this first one, shared by Anna of Noodlehead, looked fun. Plus there's someone in my family who really gets a kick out of Chinese takeout boxes, so I figured I might as well try my hand at one.

If you have the book, there's a link mentioned in the techniques section that let's you print the template at 100%. That really helped.

I had just enough Pellon #808 Craft Fuse on hand to use as the directions suggested, but still found my box a tad unwieldy as I tried to glue the bottom, so I put my handy-dandy Wonder Clips into play, and they helped stabilize things just enough to get the job done.

Even though I'm not one to rush the holidays, I did enjoy digging into my stash for some of Robert Kaufman's O Tinsel Tree. And the project, start to end, took under an hour. So there's one little gift box ready for Christmas wrapping.

Linking up with the Ruby Star Wrap-Along.