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Tap the nail 2-3 times with the hammer to seat it in the hole. The glue will help secure the nail in place. My tutorial focuses on using these MDF letters, which are hard to hammer into. For that reason I used a simple power drill with the smallest drill bit to make the holes. I also used glue and what seemed like a gazillion small nails. For this string art you will need: If you do not have a printer at home, you can simply place a sheet of paper on the computer screen and copy the contour. Drill holes about halfway through the letter (don’t go all the way through the MDF), just to give the nail a head start. By the way, you can use a foam board and needles instead of a wooden board and small nails. This option is easier to make, but it is much more unstable and fragile. Besides, it is usually used for string art for kids because it is safer.

I’ve seen several string art projects around lately and love them all. String art is time-consuming, but the end result is beautiful and well worth the effort. When I decided to turn my last set of studio wall letters into string art, it wasn’t before going through several other ideas first. This project took me a couple of days, just like this State String Artdid.The first day I spent a few hours on it, the second day almost all day. I used approximately 2-3 skeins of floss for each letter. Some letters needed more than others. If you laminate the sheets you can use them with gels OR acrylic paint (eg: practicing one-stroke flowers)If you follow along here, you know that I have a studio and that I have already created these flower wall letters and these burlap wall letters to go over my windows. The final letters, C-R-A-F-T, finished off the walls over the far right window. For some of the free printable string art patterns, you do not have to necessarily hammer a nail at each point, but still, they have to be enough to keep shape and contour. Nails on the sheet appear with the Proximal Nail Fold (PNF)/base of the nail at the top and the free edge at the bottom TIP: Occasionally the trailing end of your string may tangle. Because you must keep the string taught to avoid unravelling your project, place a heavy object on your string (I used my drill) so that your hands can be freed to untangle the end. When going around curves you will not have an even number of nails across from each other. You will need to wrap one nail multiple times as you zig zag.

Use a pencil to mark small dots where you want your nails to go. Mine were approximately every half-inch. The decor in my studio is all about colors. Lots and lots of color, so when deciding on the string art design, I decided to use two colors on each letter. If you wish to make decals, insert the sheet into a smooth plastic sheet protector (the kind you get for binders) and make your design as you would with the reverse decal methodI’m really happy with how my letters turned out! I’m glad I decided on the string art and making them so colorful. It really fits well in my studio!