Fabric covered bulletin board

Dear Reader, I have a confession to make. I am not a patient person. This can make crafting very difficult, but it also provides opportunities to make bulletin boards out of canvases because I'm too impatient to go out and buy cork boards!
 This tutorial can be easily applied to covering cork boards, never fear, patient reader.

1. Gather your supplies! you will need:
-your canvas or bulletin board (mine is a 20 x 30 canvas)
-fabric of your choice, a few inches bigger than your canvas/board
-staple gun. With staples, preferably.
Optional: felt to line the back of the canvas. I thought the pushpins might need a little extra to hang on to, though in the end I'm not convinced it's necessary.
Optional: refreshing alcoholic (or not!) beverage of your choice

2. If you're doing the felt, glue it to the back of your canvas. I used Mod Podge because hot glue was too gloppy. And no one likes gloppy glue.

3. Lay your fabric face down on your work surface. I'm using a rustic outdoorsy picnic table because it's the only horizontal surface I could find that didn't already have stuff on it! Then lay your canvas face down on your fabric and trim around, leaving 2-3 inches extra around each side. Clip the corners.

4. Now for the stapling! The trick here is to pick a side, do not start near the corners. 1 staple in one side, then the opposite, pulling the fabric taut. Do the same with the remaining sides (total of 4 staples so far). Then go back and work your way from the center of the first side, putting a staple every couple inches or so. Then the opposite side. Then remaining sides (I sense a pattern), remember to keep pulling taut. Leave a couple inches around each corner staple-free.

How to start stapling- sides first!

5. The corner. This is the tricky part, only because it's difficult to explain. Ordinarily, when covering a canvas you just pick whether it will be horizontal or vertical. Then you fold the corners down so that the excess fabric lays along the side you won't see. I figured to find a way around that, and have no unsightly fabric overlap! Smooth the side edges together, then lay the corner fabric overtop (should be square/diamond shape) and staple like crazy. If you're not sure you get it, consult the image and then compare to the sweet origami square base, it's the same basic principle.

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Just make it work! So long as you are happy with it, and it gets done. Am I right?

6. Polish off your delicious beverage and admire your handiwork!

Isn't the patio lovely?