My 14 year old son said, "Why don't you just amp up your blog and then you can get advertisers and they will pay you to blog." I told him that I'm not a very talkative person (they know this) so I wouldn't know what to write about each day. He said I should just blog about recipes, craft projects, stuff we do in homeschooling. Ok. I can do that. So this is my latest craft project (thank you Pinterest.)
I went to Pat Catans and bought a styrofoam wreath, three colors of yarn, and a pack of foam stars/USA stickers. Altogether, my total was just under $14. Not bad.
I started wrapping the blue yarn around the wreath, fastening it with scotch tape in the back (lazy, yes, but I wasn't about to dig out my hot glue gun and risk burning the fingerprints off my fingers if scotch tape was going to work just as well.) My daughter actually took over and finished the blue quarter.
We cut the yarn and taped it in the back and began with the red yarn. I eyeballed the spacing, I'm sure there's a more precise way to do it, but I'm pretty good at estimating. I like to call my style "Imprecise Precision."
I alternated white and red yarn until the wreath was covered. Because it is a circle, the yarn overlaps a little bit in spots on the inner ring. Unavoidable, really. When I was done, I stuck different size white stars on the blue field, not putting them in an order, just laying them where they would look good. I didn't glue them, I just removed the backing and placed them on. They stuck fairly well. If they start to come off, I can glue them then.
So here's my finished product. I think it looks pretty good. I'm happy with the result.
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