Valentine's Day Decorations:: Yarn Wrapped LOVE Letters

I mentioned last week that I was guest posting over at How To Nest For Less and sharing a little Valentine's Day project. 

I wanted to share the full tutorial here today just in case you missed it!

I'm typically not one to decorate for Valentine's Day, but thought it would be fun to make a little something this year.

Yarn was on sale at my local craft store, so I decided to make some yarn wrapped letters spelling out LOVE.

Instead of using traditional Valentine's Day colors (red & pink)  I went with a fun yellow & blue, with a touch of gray.

Here's what you need to make your own.

Yarn


Cardboard Letters


I decided I wanted to spell out LOVE. You could actually do this for a lot of holidays. Like 'JOY' for Christmas, 'BOO' for Halloween...you get the point.


Wait. Did you notice something wrong with my letters? Yes, you are seeing things correctly. That is a 'Q' and not an 'O.' The one snag was that my local craft store didn't have the letter 'O.' But, I had set my mind on this project, so I found a way to make it work.

I bought a 'Q' and cut off the tail outside..


and inside.

Voila! Now you have an 'O.'


The next step was to start wrapping.


I just wrapped the entire letter in one direction, then went back and wrapped in the opposite direction.
The 'O' was the tricky letter to wrap. Since there was an opening, I had to push the wad of yarn through the opening and continue wrapping all the way around.

Instead of just leaving the letters yellow and blue, I decided to wrap a little gray around each letter as well.


I just think it gives it a fun texture.

Here's what the L and V looked like before wrapping them with the gray yarn.


And here's the final result again.


Here's a close up of some of the letters.




This project was super simple and only took a few hours. It's a great project to work on while watching mindless TV ;)



Happy early Valentine's Day!

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