Holiday Bunting...

This is our first Christmas in a LooOoNnnGGgg time that have been able to decorate... Most of the stuff we did have was either given away or disappeared into thin air... So I got to crafting... I had leftover drop cloth scraps from the teepee... I cut out some triangles, folded them over a rope nd ran them through a sewing machine... That was cute but I needed more... So I made some of my own butcher twine... I love this twine... But it's pricey and I want all of the colors..... I bought some crochet thread for $2.50 and made my own!

I wrapped the thread around a shim... A flat ruler would work just as well, make sure to not double layer it.

Then I took a sharpie and colored some stripes, making sure to heavily saturate the thread...

Progress... I did three stripes on each side of the shim...

Ta-da!

You can make it in any color you want! Special! Now onto why I needed my butchers twine... I made some Pom poms using the directions that I did here... Then strung my Pom poms on them with a needle....

These Pom poms were pretty big, about 2" diameter... All you have to do is wrap around the yarn more times the bigger you want it...

Pom Pom garland....

I came across some star name card holders at Savers for $0.50..... They had a slit for the card so I used the opening and slipped some twine through it.... Boom... Garland!

And I think take off the Pom poms and you have a Fourth of July garland.... I may just keep it up all year!