have you made a tissue box cover? does it have a bottom or not?

[ZingSweetApple]

if yes, how do you replace the tissue box?

does it need a bottom?

I think I want to do a few, but I imagine they would have a top with a hole/slit and four sides only, then you just put it on top, like a tea cozy.

can you help?

The ones I've seen at craft fares have been just covers like you have described.

The only tissue box covers I've seen are bottomless, as you describe.

I have made one before that has a bottom .then you can insert tissues (useful for car, especially if you make it in oilcloth).
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thanks for replies!

574

the photo on your link is lovely, but it looks quite slim, I don't think it would work for a tissue box that is the size of a brick.

Thanks though!

You could make a box with a lid and cut a hole in the lid to pull the tissues out. You could make it from thin board and score the sides of the lid to fold the edges down. I can't find a photo at the moment. But I'll have another look later. (supposed to be going out!)

Or you could make something like this Presumably it is made from a bottom with the four sides, each of which is scored to make the top fold over.

There is the bottomless one like [[http://comfortstitching.typepad.co.uk/comfortstitching/2011/09/moda-country-fair.html this with the pattern included)

Or you could crochet or knit one. Many of them have a bottom too.

That one on etsy would be fairly simple to make I reckon..... A rectangular piece (obv lined with a stiff interfacing and an inner/outer fabric) which forms the bottom, sides and fold over at the top with loops on one side and buttons on the other. Then attached to each end, a smaller rectangle piece which forms the ends and fold over at the top, these fold underneath the button/loop folds.

My DM made some tissue box covers years ago, she used embroidery plastic - a mesh grid and stitched over it - 4 sides with a top that had a hole cut for the tissues. The bottom was open so the box just slid over the tissue box.

Just wanted to add that the fabric cover wouldn't need card inside I don't think, as it would get support from the tissue box once in place and if no tissue box then it would just fold flat.

The one 574 linked too, I've also made and they are great for those little 'handbag' packs of tissues or for the slightly larger soft packs of travel tissues - I've not seen the larger packs for a long time though.

I love the look of the Etsy one! Yes, I agree that mine wouldn't hold a whole box of tissues.

I've made the little handbag packs too. They are very cute. I was wondering if you could scale it up and make it squarer for a larger box. Maybe if you made it in jersey or something similarly stretch so that you could manoeuvre the box in.

I found this tutorial for something similar to the Etsy box I posted before.

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thanks!

I saw that type on Pinterest, also with a velcro version.

in fact I think I'll do one with a velcro at the bottom, anything on top will be destroyed by DD's vandal little fingers!

Intriguing to see that pattern, it's exactly what I had in my head! I'm thinking I might make a couple for me but also, they'd be good items to put in Christmas hampers esp if material picked to suit the decor of the house they'd be going to....

Thanks for the idea Zing!

I'm think aloud here (metaphorically speaking) really rather than knowing what I am talking about, but if you had the Velcro at the bottom would the box lie flat on the table? I suppose it would depend on how big the Velcro was and where you placed it but if it were a strip down the middle, for example, the box might wobble. Not a problem really as it isn't an 'elf and safety issue, is it? A wobbly box won't kill anybody. On the other hand it might annoy me.

I wonder if there would be some way of putting the Velcro down the side somewhere, maybe on of the short edges?

You are right, the Velcro would create a lump which would prevent the box from lying flat. There's no reason why the flap couldn't be at the side, just needs to be big enough for the tissue box to be able to slide in/out. You could also use press-studs or even magnetic catches (u-handbag.co?.uk I think) both of which would be thinner than Velcro and might look better, especially as if on the side, then the catches are more likely to be seen.
An alternative would be to have the bottom piece remove completely so the Velcro would actually be around all 4 sides and not create a wobbly bottom. Bit of playing about needed I think in order to determine what would work best.

Zing - do you really think dc would fiddle? The loops would be quite strong if you stitched back and fore a few times at the joining area and I'd make a flat fabric loop rather than use thin round elastic as you'd then be able to stitch through the fabric a few times (I find round elastic is more likely to slip free of stitching)....

a wobbly box? nooooo!

good point. although anything is better than the current carton box ripped to shreds!

fiddle? - oh yes.

DD is 21 months old and is not only everywhere, but her favourite activity currently is to rip tissues to shreds and stick the pieces in her nose.
she sucks on things and pulls things apart.
nothing is safe from those chubby little fingers.

toys are just not interesting enough

Ah, that nice fiddly age tbh! my youngest is 9 and he still fiddles..........

You could make a toddler fabric book with buttons and loops and Velcro and stuff!!!

I have a 13 yr who still fiddles. IPhone in one hand, whatever anybody foolishly has left lying around in the other. Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle.

Ironically he was pretty good at not fiddling as a toddler but he's made up for it since.