DIY: A tribute to Minnesota
Published 9:00 am Saturday, December 23, 2017
Kristin Overland
Kristin Overland enjoys making crafts, sewing and crocheting. She makes and sells wooden signs for weddings with her mother, Sue Sanderson. Overland, 28, lives right outside of Albert Lea with her husband, Derek, and her son, Joshua. She works as a marketing assistant at Mrs. Gerry’s Kitchen.
What you will need:
• Hammer • Needle-nose pliers
• 1 2-ounce box of wire nails • Tape
• Size 10 crochet thread • 14 1/2-by-16-inch piece of wood
• Red paint • Paintbrush
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Print out or create an outline of Minnesota with small lines or dots. Create a heart at the location of Albert Lea in southern Minnesota.
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Center and then tape down the outline onto the piece of wood.
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Use pliers to hold nails and then hammer in nails evenly apart about 1 centimeter all along the outline of the state and the heart. Tear off the paper guide.
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Using crochet thread, tie a knot around one of the nails and then weave the thread back and forth around the nails to create a border around the state.
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Weave crochet thread back and forth sporadically around nails as desired. Make sure to have some string go to the heart to outline that shape. Space within the heart will not have any string.
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When finished with string, paint the inside of the heart with red paint.
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