DIY Fabric Headboard

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• Piece of plywood OR insulation foil covered foam board from hardware store as wide as your bed and as tall as you want the headboard to be. (Width Sizes - King: 76", Queen: 60", Full: 54", Twin: 38")
• Batting 2" thick and to be the width and height of your bed choice
• 2 1/3yds of fabric across x 54" tall for King mattress, adjust for shorter widths
• Quick Grip glue
• Upholstery tacks (100 minimum)
• Glue gun/glue gun sticks
• Scissors
• Hammer
• Sharpie® marker
• X-Acto® knife for insulation board
• Jigsaw for plywood
• Staple gun for plywood headboard
• Roll of duct tape (any color)

DIRECTIONS:

1. On the plywood or insulation foam board, use a Sharpie marker and draw out your shape of the headboard. You may need a metal ruler to draw any straight line.
2. With your X-Acto knife for the foam board or the jigsaw for the plywood, cut out the drawn shape. Discard the leftovers.
3. Place the batting onto the cut shape and trim any excess batting.
4. Remove the batting and set aside.
5. With the Quick Grip glue, place small dabs of glue on the headboard form every 6" in all directions on the board, then replace the batting on top and press firmly in place.
6. Let it dry for about 3 hours before continuing.
7. Lay the fabric on top of the batting and do a test run which way looks best. Once you have decided on the direction, make sure it is centered with 2" overlapping all sides of the headboard. Cut off any excess fabric.
8. Starting in the middle on the top edge of the headboard, pull the fabric fairly taunt and wrap it around to the backside. Place a small dab of glue on the board and press the fabric in place. If doing it on plywood use your staple gun and secure the fabric. If using just Quick Grip glue, then place a piece of duct tape over the glued fabric. Repeat this process on each side around the headboard.
9. As you are tacking or gluing the fabric down, place duct tape on top of the fabric on the backside edges to help keep it in place.
10. When you get to the corners do a mitered corner to keep down the bulk in the fabric.
11. Once the headboard is completely covered, insert the tacks around the perimeter on the front side of the headboard about 1" apart. You will need to use a hammer if making this on plywood. You can push them in and glue at the back of the heads of the tacks to keep them in place if you are creating it on foam board.

JOANN HACKS:

• As you are gluing or tacking down the fabric, flip it over every so often to look at the front and make sure your patterns is still going the correct direction and not angling because you are stretching it.