TUTORIAL - MAKE CONNY'S OTTOMAN

HELLO EVERYBODY!!!

I HOPE YOU HAD WONDERFUL

HOLIDAYS!!!

 

AND I HOPE THAT 2018 BRINGS

YOU JOY AND HAPPINESS THIS

YEAR!!!!

 

AND A MUCH BETTER YEAR THAN

YOU PREVIOUSLY HAD!!!

 

At least this is what I am hoping for. The

Holidays this year at my house were sad since

the loss of my daughter. I just couldn't get

myself moving.

I hope you are still with me.

 

I wanted to post my way of making an Ottoman.

So many ways to make these and so many materials

in which to use. It is always best to use

and recycle materials. Anyway making ottomans

are super easy.

Sometimes the directions are just hard to make. I do

try to make the directions so that when google

translates, you can understand.

 

This is super easy, remember that! There are

plenty of pics to help guide you.

So here it goes!

 

PLEASE READ!

ALSO - THIS IS DELILAH'S OTTOMAN THAT IS

PICTURED IN THE HALLOWEEN APARTMENT.

I DID NOT WANT TO MAKE THE SAME OTTOMAN

TWICE AS I DID NOT NEED ANOTHER ONE, SO
HOPEFULLY YOU CAN BEAR WITH ME SINCE
THERE ARE MANY PICS WITH RED/BLACK PLAID

AND CANDY CORN FABRIC COMBINED. BECAUSE

I DID NOT TAKE ANY PICS OF THE RED/BLACK PLAID

OTTOMAN BEING MADE.

 

ALSO - THERE ARE 2 WAYS IN MAKING MY

OTTOMAN:

THE NORMAL WAY IS THE

RED/BLACK PLAID OTTOMAN.

THE OTHER WAY CANDY CORN OTTOMAN

HAS A PILLOW-TYPE TOP.

I WILL GIVE YOU BOTH WAYS HERE IN
THIS TUTORIAL.

PICK WHICH DESIGN YOU LIKE AND

USE FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL USE.

 

AS ALWAYS PLEASE REFER TO THIS
LINK AND GIVE ME CREDIT FOR MY IDEAS

AND WHAT I SHOW YOU.

THANK YOU.

 

 

RED/BLACK PLAID OTTOMAN.

DELILAH'S OTTOMAN

 

These Ottoman's can be made in any size

that you want!

 

CANDY CORN PILLOW-TYPE OTTOMAN.

 

TOP OF DELILAH'S OTTOMAN. Topped

with a black velvet ribbon that I retrieved off

of something else

 

 I bought this scrapbook paper sometime ago. I forgot

how many sheets are in this package but I have 3

sheets left.

I guess you could use cardboard and peel off one

side of the paper, but I am not sure how thick that

would be. Not sure if you could even bend it.

But this paper is flexible and can be bent!

 

Here is a pic up close of the measurements for those

that need centimeters.

 

 

This is on the back of each sheet.

 

This is a full length sheet.

 

Up close pic of the flutes.

 

Sideways of the flute. Flexible to use!

See how it can bend easily.

 

This is what you are going to make. I made 4

in the beginning.

 

Another pic with the bottom exposed.

 

Both of the ottomans are different sizes. What size

you make is totally up to you. You can make these

little ottomans fat or skinny. My red/black plaid

ottoman is short and fat while the candy cane ottoman

is more taller and skinnier.

 

The candy-corn ottoman is 1 and 3/4ths inches high and

that includes the top of the pillow.

 

Below is the side measurement for the

red/black ottoman.

 

Start by measuring out the almost or make it

one inch for easy figuring. Put tick marks all the

way down the paper. Does not matter which

side you use cause the paper is a square.

 

Cut out the strip out.

 

Place the cut strip on top of the paper

and cut more strips. Continue cutting

strips across the paper.

Keep in mind that it only takes 1 and a

half strips to make one ottoman. Or you

can use 2 full strips. The choice is yours.

 

I cut out 3 strips, but I did not need

3 cause my red/black ottoman takes

a little over half of the second strip.

Make sure that all of the strips are the

same size in width!!

Also - everybody winds strips differently,

some people wind tightly while others

wind loosely.

The strips for the red/black ottoman

is not wound that tightly, but it is not

wound loosely either.

The strips for the candy-corn ottoman

is a little taller so it kind of winds a

little tighter. At least it appears to me

to do so.

 

Making these ottomans are so easy and

fast! They are really a lot of fun to make!

TO BEGIN - start at the very end of

your strip and apply glue on the fluted

sections. Only apply the glue down the

strip about 4 inches at a time. And as

you see here, you do not have to apply

glue everywhere on each flute. The

glue will hold.

You are going to glue and roll!!!!

 

Gently start rolling from the edge.

 

Try to keep the sides even as you roll down the

strip. Add more glue as you go along.

 

Almost to the end!

It rolls up very quickly!!!

 

When you come to the end. Be sure to

put glue on the end and stick it down

good.

 

Hold it down for a couple of seconds or until

the glue takes hold and secures. This takes

less than a minute to glue together.

 

To add another strip to this, just butt up another strip

to the existing strip. DO NOT OVERLAP!!!!

Then continue to glue and roll until the strip is

finished.

 

Your ottoman should look similar to this when you

are finished. Your ottoman could be fatter than this,

but hopefully not any skinnier than this. Count

the rings - only about 6 rings going around.

 

The next step is to take a piece of cardboard and draw

the shape of your ottoman around it.

 

Draw 2 - each ottoman needs a top

and a bottom. Cut both out. Mark top

and bottom as you see here.

 

Make sure each piece is the correct size. Trim

if needed. It doesn't have to be exact. Then glue

ONLY THE BOTTOM CARDBOARD ON THE

OTTOMAN.

 

These little ottomans do not take much fabric

at all. This is a quilting strip about 3 inches long

and 2 inches wide. Cut 2 of these little strips.

 

Now, mark around each ottoman onto

the fabric. Leave some room around

each piece.

 

Cut out a little more around each piece as you see here.

 

Next, put lots of glue on the cardboard that you glued

onto the ottoman.

 

Place the fabric on top matching up the lines and

then with scissors cut the fabric from the edge to the

ottoman - but do not cut the ottoman!

Apply a small amount of glue on the ottoman

and bend down each piece you cut into the glue.

 

Cutting allows you to bend each piece down and

gives you a nicer, cleaner edge. It takes only a

minute or less to dry.

 

See how neat the edges are. Now apply a little

bit of glue around the top of the side edge of the

ottoman.

 

Find the middle of your strip and butt

the edge of it up to the edge of the ottoman.

Press down with your fingers if it straight.

 

Apply a little bit of glue as you along and finish

one side of the strip, make sure you keep it even

and straight with the top.

 

With scissors cut off that one side of the strip

that has been glued.

Then stop.

 

I do not have a habit of gluing all of the fabric

down onto the ottoman, so I gently peel up

a little bit of the bottom edges, apply a little glue

and press the fabric back down.

This is how I do it, you can glue it all down

if you wish.

 

Next proceed to the other side of the

fabric strip. Apply little glue and

continue around till you come up to the

other seam edge.

 Apply little glue on top and bottom

edge and glue it down. Make sure

all is straight and even with the top

edge. Press firmly down.

 

Hold for a few seconds till the glue

bonds.  If everything looks good, then

with your scissors, cut off the bottom

edge even with the ottoman.

 

 Glue the edge down.

 

This is what it looks like from the side.

 

This is what it looks like towards the top of the

ottoman.

 

FOR THE RED/BLACK OTTOMAN - you will have to

cut the fabric a lot wider than what I show here.

SORRY - NO PIC SFOR THIS PART!!!

 

(THIS PIC GOES TO THE CANDY-CORN BUT I
CAN USE THIS  PIC TO SHOW YOU WHAT
TO DO NEXT).

Cut the fabric

about 2 inches wider than the cardboard. You will

need a little bit of stuffing. Stuff between the cardboard

and the fabric. Then cut from fabric edge to the

cardboard. Lightly apply glue and glue down onto

the cardboard. This forms the pillow top that you

see in the next photo.

 

Then glue the entire pillow top onto

the ottoman! Make it fit the sides!

Apply a ribbon or a design on top.

 

Top of my ottoman.

 

A side and top view.

 

Hold the ottoman as shown. A trim is needed

to hide seams.

 

Apply a little glue halfway around the ottoman.

Or all the way around the ottoman whichever you

prefer to do.

 

Lay the trim on the ottoman and press down

firmly all the way around the ottoman.

 

The trim was a last minute thing I did to the ottoman.

Glad I took pics of this part.

 

 

FOR THE PILLOW-TOP OTTOMAN.

 

By the way, the other piece of cardboard that says

TOP was made a little differently than the bottom.

I cut the fabric edge to the cardboard and glued the

cut sides down to this cardboard. Then I glued it down

on top of the ottoman. This will be hid by the

pillow-top. It just helps to finish it off in cases

someone tries to look under the pillow.

 

 

Take a 2 inch piece of fabric. Either glue or sew the

sides together. Leave one side open.

 

Stuff.

 

Then glue or sew shut.

 

I wanted to fancy it up a little so I sewed in a

little orange bead in the middle of the pillow. I

was going to use my small skull beads but I could

not find them. Had to use the beads. But it turned

out okay I think.

 

When I sewed the bead on, I tightened it at

the back of the pillow so as to indent the

pillow before I knotted the threads together.

Can you tell.

 

 Then I decided to stitch beads at all

4 corners.

 

Next, I added a small bead of glue as near to

the center of the ottoman top as possible.

 

I centered the pillow-top onto the ottoman. Then

I applied a little glue on the underside of each

point that had a glue. I held down one side with my

finger and then went opposite it and held down that

side. When it stuck then I went to the other 2 sides

and did the same.

 

 Top of the pillow-top.

 

A top and side angle view.

 

 

 

(I got lazy making this pillow-top. I folded a 4inch

piece into a 2inch piece and glued 3 sides, after

I stuffed it, I glued the other side and applied it to

the ottoman. I might re-do the pillow-top cause I have

one folded nice edge and the other 3 sides do not

look that good to me.)

So do not mix sewing or

gluing the pillow-top together like I did.

I do not

like how it sticks up on the glued  sides.

My choice is to remove the pillow-top and either

sew it together properly. Then put it back together

again or just leave it as it is. I can glue down

the parts that is sticking up.

 

NAH!!

After much deliberation - I carefully removed

the pillow-top and re-made it! I sewed it

together like I should have done in the first

place!

 

After all witch's like nice things too!

 

Well, I just could not stand looking at it any

longer. It peeled off easily enough without tearing

any of the fabric. I sewed the pillow-top and

added the beads again. Put it all together in

just a matter of minutes.

I hope you like my Ottoman tutorial!

Thank you for visiting me!

Hopblogger