I was too ashamed to take a before photo of this table that is in my craft room. It had piles of extra stuff that was slowly getting out of control. So I did what any lazy perfectionist would do and I covered it up real cute like.

I’ve got a big bunch of fabric laying around and this particular piece has been used for about 5 different things so far. I think it was about 3 yards worth. I try to never cut it in case I need a continuous length in the future.


So I got Precilla, Pricilla Percilla what ever my glue gun’s name is and only tried to cover the 2 sides that would be showing to the public. I hot glued the fabric to what is called the apron of the table right under where the wood top is so you cannot see my messy, impatient work.

I did that left side and just glued the corners and maybe one or two dots just to secure it in the middle. Then, I grabbed the other end of the fabric and glued that to the far right end of the table in the corner. You end up with lots of extra fabric in the middle. That is exactly what you want. It doesn’t matter if you have an extra 15 inches or 5 inches, you should be able to use this method.

Find the center of the leftover, drooping fabric and hot glue it to the center of the front apron.


Now, this is the part that I have no words to describe. You simply $d_x) #nO%’! @f~/? and then Y6*X%2B. You start on one side of the middle and pull it tight or tought or taught and fold it over itself to make half of a pleat. See the photo down there? Do that. Yours will be bigger or smaller depending on how much fabric you have. Or you can just forget about the pleat and be normal and just cut your fabric to fit.

If you are a crazy person and insist on not cutting and want to continue with the pleat you do the same to the other side making sure that your folds are the same width as the first pleat.


Here’s what it looks like when it’s all done. If you have lots of fabric you could do multiple pleats. I didn’t really think ahead so my pattern doesn’t really match up but hey, it doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful. Once I get my craft room cleaned up I’ll show it to you. I took these photos a few weeks ago when it was cleanish. Right now I would just die of shame. I cannot even see a speck of floor.


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