Futon Tutorial

[embyquinn]

Since I'm still not 100 percent certain of my photography skills, I decided to do an illustrated tutorial on the making of a futon like the one in Cherry's travel room. This is a great single-occupancy convertible chair/futon for a 12" doll.

Materials:

Popsicle sticks (at least 30)
Glue
1/4" wide ribbon, two 12" pieces
Scissors (to cut sticks with)
Paint (optional)
















This is what the futon frame looks like in real life.


A cushion can be easily made from three thin pieces of foam covered with fabric. If you look closely, you can see that I added a couple more 1" pieces of popsicle stick to the end of the "backrest" frame to make it more level with the seat portion, but this is totally optional.

I hope this inspires many more futons!

[takahirokumiko]

Thank you for the tutorial. It looks awesome!

[Yanagi-sen]

Oooh... I like. I made a traditional Japanese futon for my first boy but this is really cool.

[Evelien]

I. LOVE. THIS.

I've tried making a bed out of popsicle sticks before but it didn't quite work out. The ribbon idea is ingenious. Thanks for posting this!!

[zirconmermaid]

Yes, thank you very much! I was trying to figure it out!

[lili]

Oh my gosh, this is amazing! And just with a bunch of popsicle sticks, I have a set of 1000 of those.
Thanks so much for this, I'm going to use this as soon as I get the time.

[Chrystal]

Embyquinn: this is great. Thank you. I'm getting a minigem aren and will make this for her.