Relining a Trunk

I mentioned a bit ago that I was working on this project but hadn't finished it. Well, I just did the other day and holy crap it was a project and a half. Let me preface everything by saying, I'm not the most crafty of people. I would love to say I am and I usually have awesome ideas but my ability to follow through and have them look like how I want? Yeah not so much. However, as grad school drives me into a slow form of madness brought on by debits and credits, I find my creativity needing to come out somehow (you can only make debits and credits and amortization so creative after all). Enter this project stage left.

My grandfather was a big trunk collector. He liked to pick them up cheap at flea markets and garage sales in various conditions and then take his time to revitalize them and turn them back to how gorgeous they were. He hasn't done any trunk restoration lately but my mother still has some of his earlier projects and a few of the trunks he picked up and I was able to play with one of them.

There are multiple ways to seal and restore trunks and many different How-To's online for those. I decided to go with a (what I thought was) very simple route and stick with fabric. To start, you need:

     .: fabric

     .: trunk

     .: sharp fabric scissors

     .: cloth tape measure

     .: spray glue

     .: fabric glue