Today's Creation

Over the past few weeks I've been slowly "collecting" paint chips from the local hardware stores.  For some reason, even though they are free, I feel as though I'm stealing something every time I grab a stack...Some of them were in fact to figure out what color we want to use for the stripe in Avery's room, but a majority of them were for this project I had seen in a similar format on Pinterest (surprise, surprise)  I just had something a little more detailed in mind.

I started by punching out all of the circles, borrowing a circle punch from a friend.  Last week  I sat on the couch and punched, and punched, and punched.

Yesterday I ventured out to Joanne Fabrics.  The original idea had used a wooden cross-stitch hoop and I wanted something a little fancier.  What I wanted to do was find something I could wrap ribbon around to class it up a bit.  Which in all reality a wooden cross-stitch hoop would have worked for that but I also had a vision of two hoops so I could do one color in the middle hoop and another on the outer hoop.  They only had a great big huge one and a teeny tiny one.  ARGH.  I had also seen one made with a wire wreath thingy, so I found one of those but it had too many "other" hoops and what not on it.  The thought of wrapping ribbon around it gave me a headache but I grabbed it anyway.  Luckily on our way out we came upon these tiny little gold rings... woot woot, they were going to be perfect!!

Yesterday:  I took all my punched circles and used my sewing machine to sew them all into rows.  Since there is writing on one side, I doubled them up.  I had 2 sizes and several different colors.  Also with the blue on the bottoms I used 4 of the circles and made a more 3D type thing folding them out.

Today:

I started by wrapping the gold hoops.  I used my glue gun to adhere the ribbon to start, periodically throughout and then at the end.

Next I needed to figure out how to attach the two hoops so that the smaller hoop would be centered.  I decided I would measure 3 pieces of ribbon all the same length and then sew them around both hoops.  

I was actually really excited at how that came out!!  

Next I cut 3 more ribbons all the same length and again sewed them to the hoop, these would be how it would eventually hang.  

And finally, I began tying all the strips of circles to the wire hoops.  I tied all the blue to the middle hoop and all the green to the outer hoop.  

This last picture you can see the colors a bit better, with the flash. 

I absolutely love how it turned out, with the exception that I ran out of circles, I may collect more paint chips and add a few more rows...but it's definitely okay how it is!  I just love creating and finishing!  It feels soo good!