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Valentine Mailbox
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Valentine Mailbox
Plastic Canvas Craft
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February 2005
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- Clear, 7 mesh plastic canvas - Cut pieces as follows:
- Sides (Top) - One piece 49 squares by 69 squares
- Bottom - One piece 49 squares by 23 squares (This piece will be left as is with no stitching.)
- Cut out mailbox back (see pattern link below)
- Cut out mailbox front (see pattern link below)
- Cut out mailbox flag (see pattern link below)
- Yarn - White, Lt. Pink, Bright Pink, Purple, and Red
- Large Needle (not sharp)
- Scissors
- Small Brad
- Thin Cardboard circle - 1" diameter also, make a small hole in the center
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If you do not know how to stitch on plastic canvas and you need help understanding the pattern:
Click Here for Basic Plastic Canvas Instructions.
Begin by using the design patterns linked here to cut out and create all the pieces for the mailbox:
Mailbox Sides (Top) Pattern
Mailbox Front Pattern
Mailbox Back Pattern
Mailbox Flag Pattern
- To stitch together the pieces, follow these general steps;
- Thread the needle
- Line up the holes of each piece you are working with.
- Start at one corner hole and bring your needle through both adjacent holes leaving a small 1/2" tail of yarn.
- Next bring your needle around and go through the next adjacent holes.
- Guide and hold the tail end of yarn to lay in the direction you are stitching so that it will be secured under the stitches you are creating.
- Continue joining the piece by looping through each pair of holes in this manner.
- Finish your end of yarn by feeding it through a few of the completed stitches on the wrong side.
- Stitch both the sides (top) of the mailbox to the bottom piece along the sides that are 49 squares long.
- Next, stitch the back piece of the mailbox onto the bottom along the 23 square side.
- To stitch the rest of the back piece onto the mailbox follow the dot guides given on the back and side patterns.
- Place the flag onto the mailbox as indicated on the patterns. (Use the cardboard circle inside the mailbox to keep the sharp edges of the brad from snagging the yarn.)
 
- Stitch the front piece to the mailbox along the bottom only.
- Bend the tab toward the inside of the mailbox where shown on the pattern.
- To close, insert tab under/inside the top of the mailbox.
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