I got the inspiration for this box...
...from a wonderful tutorial on Resurrection Fern's blog.
I made some tri-color batts...
...and felted them into a large piece of flat felt.
I drew a pattern on interfacing...
...tweaking it a little, thinking that I wanted it to be more strictly rectangular than hers...
...and a little shallower, in order to fit the template to my available piece of felt.
I'm pretty sure that these were mistakes...
...since I had to sew a dart into each side to help keep them from splaying out.
I found that I also had to lose the reversibility of the project...
...when I sewed the end pieces together (also for the sake of stability).
The stitching that I ran along the edges of the box bottom helped a lot, though...
...and I would definitely do that again...
...I also like the zig zag stitch that I used to edge the box top and flaps.
If I repeat this project...
...I may forego the flap altogether and just make a large, square felt carton...
...perhaps with cut-outs for hand holes?
