Tissue box cover

This is a quick project completed last night - a tissue box cover. Please excuse the fact that it is pictured empty ... more on that later.

I used a terrific tutorial, which you can find on Lara's Kirin Notebook blog. The tutorial is easy to follow, well-diagrammed and can be adapted to fit any sized tissue box. The elegantly simple cover needs only a small amount of fabric and lining, along with two buttons and a little elastic.

The outer fabric I used is Cicada Studio's delightful Feeding The Birds. The fabric is a cotton-linen blend and lovely to work with. Pity I can't say the same about the lining that I (foolishly) chose. Its some super-slinky, chocolate-coloured Sunsilky, which will undoubtedly want to slide right off a cardboard box. Likewise something was clearly switched off in my head when I chose nice fat, rounded cream elastic (rather than something sensible and flat) to create the button loops. The elastic took on a life of its own when I tried stitching over it. Thankfully the wooden buttons that I used, did manage to behave themselves - nobody wants too many recalcitrant notions in the one project!

Now all I need to do is find a decent box of tissues to put in the cover. Tissues need to be hidden in this household. Argy and Bargy are the current land-speed record-holders for the gratuitous emptying of a tissue box.