the thrifty crafter

Need a fun way to dress up your existing cake plate?  For a recent get together, I used patterned felt leftover from a multicolored bunting I made for the same party to create a scalloped edge decorative border for my dessert plate.  Such an easy way to add some extra festivity to your spread!

Here’s what you need:

• scrap felt
• Zots or photo mounting squares
• scissors

Here’s what you do:

• For my 12-inch cake plate, I started off with thirteen 2×3 inch rectangles. Fold each rectangle over in half and round off the corners with your scissors (as pictured below).  Use your first rectangle as a template to cut the rest.  *If you really want to go on a high school geometry trip, use the formula for the circumference of a circle, 2∏r, to determine what the length of your rectangles should be.  In this case, my radius was 6, so I needed a total of 38-ish inches to completely encircle the cake plate.  Using a 3-inch rectangle gives you a total of 39 inches, so there is some overlapping in one spot, but I actually placed this on the front for a focal point as seen in the picture above.

• Affix photo mounting squares (or Zots might be better and more “sticky” – I just didn’t have any) to the backside of your felt pieces along the edge that will attach to the rim of the cake plate.  Attach each felt piece to the cake plate, approximating the felt edges closely as you make your way around the plate.  Center the last felt piece, as shown above.