Yarn Weave Home Decor

Have you fallen in love with beautiful weaves? 

We have! They add such a cozy, warm feeling to your space. We started making yarn weaves as a part of our home decor collection but want to show you how you can make your own!

Materials:

Weave board OR nails & wood

3 or more different colors and thicknesses of yarn

Inspiration

Larger needle

Scissors

Ruler

1. Create your board for weaving

You can buy them just about anywhere online or at craft stores. We made our own using an old wooden cabinet and some nails. Nail about every ½ inch at the bottom and top of your board.

2. Pick out a thinner yarn to start

You will tie your yarn on top the first nail (top or bottom line, doesn’t matter). Zig zag your yarn up, down and around each nail.

3. Leave space for you rod

Leave at least 3 inches at the top for your rod of choice. I like to use sticks & old branches I find outside.

4. Large Needle

Once you have zig zagged your yarn around all your nails (placeholders) you can pick out your first color & thickness of yarn you want to start with. Tie the end onto your large needle (light but snug). There are many, many designs you can do for weaving. Let’s start with the basic and when you are ready for more- hit up YouTube :)

5. Start Weaving

We are going to start basic. So now that your yarn is tied onto your large needle, you will start doing an over under motion through all your strands of thin yarn across and back, over & over until you are pleased with the outcome.

6. Continue weaving

Weave as you please with each different yarn. You can switch yarns but simply un tying you light but snug knot and replacing it with a new yarn. Be sure to tie off your yarn onto your thin yarn or on top another yarn as you go so you do not lose all your hard work.

7. Leave Space

Be sure you are leaving space! If you think you haven’t left enough, use your ruler to tighten your weaving. Leave about 2 inches the the bottom so you have room to slide off your thin yarn from your placeholders.

8. Add Fringe

You can add fringe just about anywhere you wish. I like to add it to the bottom first and then move to the weaved area. To add fringe to the bottom you will need to unhook your thin yarn from your nail placeholders. Pick the yarn you want for you fringe. Decide on the length and double it. Loop your fringe yarn around the loops from your placeholders. Once you have all of your fringe looped on you will not cut the ends of your loop creating your fringe look!

9. Add details

THis is now where you can go back to add any fringe into your weave or other fun details. To add fringe into your weave just pick an area you feel it will look best. Decide on the length on your fringe, double it and cut one end so you have one long strand of yarn. Fold your fold in half and loop it around the thin yarn you created your weave with. Pull the ends around, up and through to create your fringe. Repeat this over and over until you have the fringe you had visioned.

10. Rod Placement

Yes, I choose the word rod because I know some people will find it funny. Besides that, once you have all happy and giddy with your weave outcome you will need to slide off the top loops from your nail placeholders. When You slide them off, you will slide them right onto the rod you have chosen. Tie a strand of yarn to the ends of the rod for hanging.

Hand your weave up, ship it off to a friend, take photos for use to see, blog about it, do whatever you want with it!

What did you decide to do with your weave?

We loved making this so much that rug making might be in the making here soon for us.

P.S. Our website is down at the moment! Tear, I know. IndieMade has told use that they are working on it so hopefully it will be resolved and up & running here soon!

Much Love,

Amanda

A Quick DIY Storage Box

A Quick DIY Felt Storage Box

Want to fancy up your storage boxes? 

Here is a super quick and low cost way to fancy up those boxes. 

Materials:

Storage Box, Cereal Box, Old Bins...

Felt

Scissors (fabric scissors)

Hot Glue Gun

The amount of felt you need will completely depend on the size of your box and number of boxes you want to cover. Felt is very inexpensive so over estimate.

I wanted to cover this storage luggage box I picked up at Michaels Craft Store. 

I layed out all the felt under the box and on top. By "measuring" from actually placing the felt where I wanted it. TIP: use a tiny bit of masking tape to hold the felt in place if it moves and is pisses you off. 

Once you know where you want your felt use a chalk pen pencil to mark any spots you need to cut so your felt fits just right. I did this around the clips and handle, also on the bottom and along the line of the opening of the box. 

When you are all set there, go ahead and cut those area off/out. Now begin gluing starting with the bottom layers of felt first. Work your way up to finishing with any felt accents. 

Hot glue, as you probably know, it HOT and drys quick. IF you make an "oh, shit" just peel the hot glue off...after it is dry :) 

                    

Well here is my box. 

I love this DIY because it is quick and easy but also because it adds so much character to a functional piece you can now use as decor! 

What does yours look like? 

You can use ANY old box. Stack cereal boxes together and wrap them in felt for a new file holder. Take an old shoe box and cover it in felt, creating a new tissue box. 

The list goes on!

Don't miss out on where to find unique designer handbags with us today on the TOM & Orrow blog. 

Much Love,

Amanda Adams 

Darby Smart: diy air plant clock

Air Plants & Clocks: diy your own air plant clock 

Last year I joined Darby Smart and was hooked. 

Air plants were all the range on their site for 2015 and I joined in. 

So, I am going to show you my favorite home accent I designed using craft supplies from Darby Smart. 

First off, Good Morning! 

I hope that you are enjoying the strangely "warm" weather 

we are having for February, I sure am! 

I got on to Darby Smart and had the hardest time with narrowing down my first project. I could easily loose track of time on that site! I picked out some supplies and they arrived before I knew it. 

DIY Home Accent for under $20.00

I picked out:

-wooden clock

-clock parts

-E-600 glue

-2 air plants

-white gravel

-plastic sheets

-2 embroidery hoops

I got right to work measuring out the layout of what I was picturing in my head. 

Inserted the clock parts to the wooden clock

Now the measurements. I use the embroidery loop to measure the level of the plastic.

I covered the smaller loop completely and the largerplac loop with a harsh angle 

placing the smaller loop on the wooden clock, than the larger loop with the angled plastic covering.

test out the layout & get it all figured out. This is where the lovely E-600 comes into play. Add a friendly amount of glue to the embriodery loops to secure the plastic. Than do the same to the wooden loops to secure to the clock and eacother. 

Allow this to dry while you load the laundry, put the kids to sleep, or run errands. Once it is all dry, you are good to add the rocks and air plant! 

Ta-Da! Here is your new air plant clock. 

I left the wooden natural but you can add your own designs, paint it, really whatever just be sure to leave enough room from your clock parts to the plastic so that your clock will work and not drag or catchy on the plastic. 

Air plant turnout...I kill all plants :) It is super hard to kill these. It is not like I took that as a challenge but let's just say air plant life is no longer in our home. You can learn all about how to care for an 

air plant in the product description and care listing on Darby Smart, or simply Google it :) 

You don't want that advice from me. 

Happy Monday! I hope this is good motivation for you on this lovely Monday. 

Later Loves.