Maybe because it’s back-to-school season, or because people are in fall organizing mode, but I’ve been getting requests about ideas for bulletin boards. Well, when it comes to bulletin boards, nothing combines style and practicality like a French memo board. Covered in decorative fabric, French memo boards use crisscrossed ribbons to hold photos, invitations and notes — so you don’t have to use pushpins. That’s particularly useful when you don’t want to put holes in your valuable pictures and cards.
Perfect for a dorm room or a home office, they’re surprisingly easy to make with inexpensive materials. I assembled the memo board shown here in less than two hours.
(And to those holdouts who still won’t part with their utilitarian corkboards: You obviously didn’t get the memo.)
What you’ll need:
- Foam-core board
- Hobby knife
- Scissors
- Batting
- Fabric of choice
- Ribbon
- Pins
- Buttons
- Needle and thread
- Duct tape
- Hot glue gun
- Felt
Step 1
, cut a piece of foam core to your desired size. My memo board is 15 by 20 inches. You can find foam core at an art supply store. (The people at the store will even cut it for you.) Use scissors to cut a piece of batting (available at the fabric store) 1 inch larger than the foam core on all sides, and a piece of fabric that is 2 inches larger on all sides. Place the fabric upside down with the batting and foam core on top of it.</p>
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