9/4/2023 0 Comments Chalkboard paint canvasNow the canvas was pretty thirsty and soaked up more paint than I thought it would. Any wrinkles will be immortalized in paint once it dries. Then I doubled up my tarp and laid it out with my canvas on top. The bottom will need to be a bit more durable since it may get stepped on. Next, fold your fabric under at the bottom and make a finished seem. Once it’s sewn, you can insert your dowl and attach your eyelets. One thing you want to keep in mind is that you want to sew the loop big enough to accommodate your eyelet screw that you’ll attach for hanging if you don’t want to unscrew it every time you need to remove the dowel from the canvas. My dowel was 1-1/4″ in diameter so I sewed it quite a bit bigger than that. Next sew a loop at the top for your dowel. Next I sealed the corners with a little drop of fray-check in each corner and sewed about a half-inch in from my fray. All you have to do is pull at the vertical threads until they are the desired thickness. I find that seams make the edges stiff and therefore kink, crimp and bend when I don’t want them to. Next, and this is a personal preference, I frayed my sides (not the bottom or the top). Ironing your dropcloth is important because once you paint it, it will retain any wrinkles it had prior. ![]() I used regular detergent, set it to hot rinse and heavy soil and let it wash for an hour in the washing machine, then threw it in the dryer to dry completely. Keep in mind that you’re going to lose a few inches in height to the loop you will sew for the dowel. So I didn’t photo document the prep work but first you’re going to want to cut down your dropcloth until it’s the size you want. Now I have left over canvas to do Santa bags! Go to Toys R Us and get the big sidewalk chalk so you’re not priming this all day.įirst off, this bad boy is made on a painter’s dropcloth that can be bought at the hardware store! I bought a 9×12′ and cut it down to size. *VERY IMPORTANT* Do not attempt this without a large enough tarp underneath. Our’s is 9×12′ which we will cut in half. A giant 6×9 foot chalkboard canvas that can be written on, rewritten on, rolled up, stored, toted around, shared, relocated, repurposed….you get the idea. This is a genius idea if I say so myself. Pair this dilemma with our impending Halloween open house, to which I promised a photo booth, and you’ve got yourself a perfect solution in this simple DIY! The point is, I needed a better solution. Now that we’ve built his toddler bed that is also sitting idly in his room, it’s become a 3D game of Tetris every 4 weeks to shoot 300 pictures to get the $1,000,000 photo of him with his new teeth or his new skill. But now we have this pain-in-the-ass routine that we do and then a week later we put his room back to normal because we’re too lazy and sweaty to move it back the same day. I failed to see the agony it would be to switch out the crib for the chair every single month but my fiancé diligently and wordlessly obliged to help and keep me happy. I wanted him in his nursery chair with said chalk wall as the backdrop of his photos. ![]() You see, my son has a floor to ceiling chalkboard wall in his room that his crib is centered in front of. Wait, is that normal? Oh god! Exhibit A:Īnyway, I painted myself into a corner with this parent milestone because I failed to see into the future through the haze of labour recovery and sleep deprivation. The point of these is to take a photo every month in the same place so that you can someday look back at how he’s grown compared to this chair or that pillow and bawl your eyes out at how big he’s gotten. It started with purchasing the monthly age stickers you stick on your baby’s chests.
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