Day 966 | String Art Rocket — Small City Big Days

I've been dreaming of this project since we painted Chase's room back in August. He said he wanted a space theme. Then, I saw this framed string art rocket for sale at Target. I thought to myself, "that's really cute". That turned into..."I want to create that...big...on Chase's wall". Ta-da! It finally happened.

I don't have any handy online tutorial to share...I'm sure there is one but I had my image so I just ran with it. In case you're curious, though, I've included a few additional photos so you can see my process.

Step 1: Prepare your image

I took the Target art image and then blew it up to about 45" long. I did this in Photoshop so I could print separate 8.5"x11" pages that I could then puzzle-piece together on the wall. I debated about just winging it and not using a hard-copy template but it was *so much* easier to do the nails this way. No guessing game or over-analyzing positions.

After I printed and cut out the image, I taped it up on Chase's wall in the exact position I wanted the string art.

Step 2: Hammer some nails

With my template in place, I copied the nail holes from the Target art. I used cedar shingle nails because they had a little larger head (definitely needed for some of the more "popular" nails). I did have one little glitch (of course!) and chipped away some paint around one of the nail holes. That's a problem for future Sara to fix.

Step 3: Wrap that yarn

I didn't really know what my strategy for the yarn wrapping was going to be so I just played around a bit until I found a system that would work. I ended up tripling each line of the image (that's just how my wrapping technique played out). I could have gotten away with just double strands (in fact, some of the orange is), but I like the thicker blue outlines.