[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Amanda gave me my Mother’s Day gift early this year and needless to say it was beautiful. Her theme for the gift was “Beach Foot Spa”. ….. Beach…..Spa how can you go wrong….right!!?!! Included was a cute little hat.
Yesterday I started playing around with it and came up with this idea and she loved it. She got the hat from the Dollar
Store and we had some sisal twine lying around we also had picked up from the Dollar Store. Amanda and I like things to look expensive, but not cost a fortune, saving money for more trips to the spa and such. 😉 The ribbon she picked up at Michael’s on sale, but I’ve bought it at Wal-Mart cheaper. However, you may not find the ribbon with a frayed edge, which adds the laid- back beach feel I was going for. The shells we picked up on one of our family trips to the beach, my grandson loves to pick up shells and I need to find things to do with them. I loved my gift from Amanda, it was so thoughtfully done and the products are amazing.
If you find the drilling of the shells to be time consuming or you don’t own a drill you can glue them on, but find glue that can withstand hot summer days at the beach. Also you can sometimes find them predrilled, like the pack we are featuring in today’s good life tricks in tips, at Wal-mart. The sewing part of this project is time consuming, because of the variation in the thickness of the twine, but be patient the project is worth the trouble. What are some cool DYI projects you have made with hats in a spa kit? Let us know below, or give us an idea of one you would like to see us do.
Until next time, enjoy the good life!
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Tips and Tricks
If you don’t have a drill or you just don’t want to drill shells, you can sometimes buy pre-drilled shells. We found these shells at Wal-Mart for $9.00. Of course you will pay for it! 😛 But to some it may be worth it.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”426″ style=”vc_box_shadow_border_circle” border_color=”white” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
Materials:
- Wide Brimmed Hat
- 2” Jute Ribbon (I used blue ribbon with a frayed edge)
- Sisal Twine “54m”
- Shells (1 large shell flat shell and ten small shells)
Tools:
- Glue Gun
- Scissors
- Embroidery Needle with a large eye
- Straight Pins
- Drill with Diamond Burr (Masonry burr can be used, but it takes a lot of strength to drill through the shells)
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Directions:
- Plug in the glue gun so it gets hot.
- Now take the 2” jute ribbon and measure it using the brim of the hat as a guide. Leave about an inch overlap and cut the ribbon to size.
- Cut the sisal twine next. Again using the brim of the hat as a guide and cut the twine twenty inches longer than brim measurement. Cut two more pieces having three pieces in total.
- Next thread one strand of sisal twine through the eye of the embroidery needle and set aside ( Note: The sisal twine varies in thickness and this may make it a little hard to thread through the needle, so cut thicker areas off the end till you get a thin area to thread.).
- Take the jute ribbon and fold it over length wise keeping the edges uneven so there is a layered appearance to the ribbon and pin the fabric to hold it in place.
- Next pick up the threaded sisal twine and push the needle through the end of one side of the jute ribbon till the twine has an end tail of eight inches. Using a sewing straight stitch continue down the length of the jute ribbon sewing close to folded edge, having an eight inch tail on the opposite end when completed. Instead of normal sewing strokes use an up down movement pulling twine completely through each time, this is due to the uneven thickness of the twine. Remove all pins and repeat this process twice more keeping twine close together.
- Next take ribbon with twine insert and wrap it around hat and tie. Pin in place to hold. There should be six strands of sisal twine hanging down at back of hat.
- Drill holes in shells.
- Cut four lengths of sisal twine each three feet long. Taking all four pieces tie in a bow keeping bow as center as possible ends should look a little ragged.
- Cut two pieces of twine twenty-one inches long, set one piece aside. Take bow and place on a flat surface. Fold other piece of twine in half placing fold in center of bow, wrap end lengths around bows center and push ends up through the loop that is made from folded twine. Now take the embroidery needle and thread one of the new ends of twine. Take hat and place bow in center of the sisal twine that is hanging down the back of the hat. * Push the needle through the ribbon and hat then pull the twine all the way through to the inside of the hat. Do the same on the other side of the bow attaching it to the back of the hat. Tie the two piece of sisal twine in a knot on the inside of the hat. Use glue gun to glue knot inside of hat to hold in place.
- Now take other piece of twine and thread through hole in large shell. Center shell in middle of bow and attach bow to hat using same method as in step ten, starting at asterisk.
- Randomly place remaining ten shells on the twine hanging down in the back of the hat, five on each side of the bow, tying a knot at the end of each shell.
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