Krafty Kate - Love and Chevron

Joe and I still need cute decorations for our apartment, so I wanted to make some framed art for the wall. I love the Philly LOVE sculpture and, of course, chevron...

So I combined the two into a very easy wall art creation:

Here's how you can make it yourself!

What you need:
Picture frame
Fabric
Paper mache letters
Paint
Yarn
Iron
Staple gun
Hot glue gun


Step 1:
Iron your fabric so it's wrinkle-free. Then, staple the fabric to the picture frame's cardboard back. Put the frame back together (sans glass).

Step 2:
Make your letters. I hit up 2 craft stores looking for either wooden or paper mache letters to spell out L O V E and couldn't find all the letters I needed in the right size/type/etc. So I had to settle with turning an H into an E...

Which actually wasn't very difficult. I just used an X-Acto knife and masking tape.

The original plan was to just paint the letters. But, because of the masking tape on the E, it didn't look right.

So I decided to wrap the letters in yarn. Which was INCREDIBLY time consuming, but probably took less time than it would have to hunt down all the letters I needed since stores apparently can't keep the complete alphabet in stock (can you tell I am still annoyed? haha).

All I had to do once the letters were covered in yarn was super glue their backs and press them onto the framed fabric.

Ta da! All done!