Ruffled Breakfast Tray Tutorial

Sorry that it has taken me so long to get this out to you... Mr. Beaux decided to spend the weekend in the Hospital with an irregular heart beat or A-Fib as all the Cardiologists were calling it.  Scary, I'll tell you but nothing serious it turns out, just more of a nuisance.  If it isn't controlled and "reset" then there can be other complications.  Glad he's better and I have him on "Lockdown" for the rest of the weekend! (Which is fine with him as all the FOOTBALL games are on today).  

So On with the Tutorial!

 Here is the Breakfast Tray that I introduced to you last week.  Don't even ask me what gave me the idea to paint it and put ruffles on it because I have no idea.  I was trying to think a romantic "tablescape" idea and I woke up (literally) with this!

I had all of the items on hand... 

Tray, paint, fabric, floral picture, Modge Podge, and the only item I bought was the trim.

Do you have one of these trays lying around somewhere?

I lightly sanded the tray and  painted two coats of  Benjamin Moore's HC-144 Palladian Blue (the color of my ceilings in the Dining Room and Living Room...ooooohhhhh so pretty!) onto the tray.  I didn't worry about the white part of the tray chipping because I knew that I would be putting Modge Podge over it and that would seal it.

I have a lovely old botanical book that I have been saving to cut the pictures out and frame them but I have not gotten around to that yet.  I photocopied one of the pages onto cardstock and cut around the flowers, Modge Podged it and put around 5 coats on the top.  This picture is with two coats.  I also distressed the edges of the tray with sandpaper.  

Here comes the time consuming part...  

• I had some fabric left over from a costume for my daughter when she was in the play "Tom Sawyer".  I measured around the underside lip of the tray and cut a piece of cotton lining fabric that length plus a few inches. 
• I measured the drop from the tray to the floor which was about 6 inches or so and cut that. 
• I basically figured that I wanted three ruffles which would overlap each other.... and Viola I mathematically came up (haha if you believe that...) with 4 inches for each ruffle. 
• I cut all of the strips, sewed a hem on each one and then sewed about three strips together ( again, all mathematically deduced of course).
• There are a couple of ways to make a ruffle, you can put in a basting stitch and gather it or you can pin it onto the base fabric as shown.  I pinned. 
• Do this three times (leaving a 1/4 inch of the base fabric on top to fold over and sew), overlapping the ruffle on the bottom each time and there you have it: A ruffled apron or a ruffle for the tray! 
• The last step before Hot Gluing onto the tray is to fold the top over toward you and sew it down.  This just gives you a nicer finished look when you glue on the trim.

 Hot glue the Ruffle onto the tray.  I folded the Ruffle in half and started gluing at the halfway part in the front of the tray.  Glue on the trim to finish it off.  

 Now who would LOVE to have Breakfast brought to them on this tray?  

Beaux R'eves!

XO Cindy

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