Turned a Michaels's wooden CD holder into a cute ribbon holder. Make sure to put a grossgrain ribbon spool in to align where to put the dowel for ease of dispensing your ribbons. I drilled one side all the way through and the opposite end I only drilled half way so that the dowel sits in it's proper place but the side that is away from the wall doesn't have a hole in it. I also put a strip of 2-way tape along the edge to hold the ribbon tails in place. Yes I'm OCD!
Nice thing is you can stack several of these babies together and they are very stable.
I could however use some suggestions on how to prevent all the spools from unravelling when you pull on one. I have weaved them through the back opening but the adjoining two spools still unravel a bit.
If you look really close this is the side with the dowel showing.
Date: Thursday, September 7, 2006 GMT Views: 1857
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Registered: April 19, 2006 Location: Second star to the right Posts: 5638
Thu, Sep 07, 2006 @ 6:37 AM
Wow....that's a hella cool ribbon holder!
To make all the spools stop unrolling? I would imagine the only way to really do that is to make the dowel competely stationary, which would mean to make it permanently stuck in there....unless you figure out a way to make it screw in temporarily till you need to take it apart to add more ribbon! ;)
Registered: January 1, 2006 Location: colorado Posts: 532
Thu, Sep 07, 2006 @ 8:53 AM
This is beautiful. Just a guess, maybe putting a washer or something between the spools as a spacer. Or, a little more intricate: putting little notches on the dowel for the cardboard of the ribbon container to rest in.....
Registered: March 3, 2006 Location: Near St Louis Posts: 3040
Sat, Oct 14, 2006 @ 5:39 AM
Did you ask a man? Sometimes they do have ideas for things like this in their garages! And OHH how they love to know they helped...took me lots of years to learn this one! But it sure is pretty!
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