I was at uni today, and although completely unrelated to my day-job, had a lesson on blogging which I thought was quite apt!! I’ve been meaning to write this post for a few days, so this prompted me to finally get round to doing it.
I’ve had an idea in mind for a while to display my yarn tags but I couldn’t quite think how I wanted to do this. I’ve been pondering and then finally figured out what I wanted to do. So it was time to get making! Firstly, I asked Rich to engrave some yarn tags for me. This bit was easy, I knew that I wanted them to say “Oh I do like to be beside the seaside”, because it is absolutely my happy place. I love to go there and blow away the cobwebs, and it has definitely inspired the decor in the spare room. And since we have recently starting engraving yarn pegs, I though that these would be perfect to make a peg board with, engraved with the seaside themed images that we usually put on our seaside themed stich markers!
I then got out my yarn that reminded me of the seaside! I had lots of this from various projects, so narrowed it down and got wrapping my tags and pegs, using hot glue to secure the ends.
Here they are about midway through! After they were all wrapped, I then needed a blank background for my frame to put them in. I didn’t have paper big enough, but I did have wrapping paper! So I used this to wrap around the backing board. For the strings that my pegs sit on, I just crocheted two lengths, and used hot glue and sellotape to secure them at the back.
Super simple! I then hot glued the tags into place on the front. This is a close up of it all put together:
And here it is in place with these cute fairy lights that I got for a bargain £3 in the sale! I’m really pleased with how it turned out. A place to peg my notes, and another way to use some of my yarn tags too! I hope you’re all enjoying whatever crafty things you are making at the moment too!
