Nail And Yarn Art

String art is a fun easy way to make a colorful picture by wrapping thread or embroidery floss around pins or nails.

Nail and yarn art. See more ideas about string art thread art and nail string art. How far apart to set you nailsthe more nails you havethe more full your string art will be. And then my week long marathon of tiny nails and banged up fingers began. How to make nail string art make a customized name word picture or state with nails and some thread super easy and cute.

Lickity split i saw my opportunity to bust out some string art and jumped on it. Its surprisingly easy and gives beautiful results. Among all the forms of crafts you can work on with a bunch of string the string art with some nails or a needle is the most popular. Ive been wanting to experiment with string art for a while so when lion brand yarns came to me with a craft challenge using their new bonbons i jumped right on italthough im not much of a knit and crochet kind of gal i still love experimenting with new ways to use yarn for my diy projectsfor this weeks diy i created a piece of custom wall art using yarn and nails.

It ranges from simple designs like monograms to more complex creations like portraits and elaborate forms. There are really no limitations to the patterns you can achieve and the designs you can make using the string art technique. It is much easier than embroidery work being more fun with interesting unique outcomes. I had some plywood waiting in the wings so i cut it down to size sanded the rough edges stained it a dark walnut and then gave it a couple thin coats of poly to make it weatherproof.

I just love the rustic feel of this hello sign using yarn nails and a wood board. It could be a piece of wood a wall a fence etc. If you only have 2 nails on one side you wont be able to criss cross as many times as you would if you had 10 nails. This is a super simple craft that you can really customize to your.

This is an inexpensive activity thats good for craft fans of all ages. And the great thing is that you can make pretty much any shape you want in any colour. If you didnt hammer in the nails in a straight line when you wrapped the string its pretty noticeable. String art has become very popular lately and it now takes all sorts of forms.

In this video i show all the steps for making string art.