MyMilitarySavingsWith every change of station in the military, every house is different. That’s a no-brainer, right? Sometimes you have a yard, you may or may not have a porch, and occasionally half of your belongings stay in storage because you hardly even have a house! Along the beautiful path that we call military life, you acquire so many different things from different places…that has high potential to get broken every time you have to pack up and relocate.
Where am I getting at with this, you ask? Well… I currently have no yard, I have a very awkward shaped porch, and the gorgeous Halloween and fall decor that I’ve collected from around the world is either completely missing or hidden away in the dark corners of our attic that neither my husband or I can locate. I refuse to buy new decorations (at least until they are all 75% off after this Halloween season) so, we have been winging it with a ton of DIY crafts this season. I do have a fun inflatable, 5 foot witch for the yard that was tucked into our Easter decoration box!? However, we have no yard to set it up in! So I’ve got a porch. A funny looking porch. That’s all I have to work with. So what’s a milspouse to do?!?! You make your own spider webs out of yarn, that’s what! It’s easy, cheap, and you can build it to fit any space that you have.
Supplies:
Directions:
- Start out by taping pieces of yarn into an asterisk (*) shape.
- Add more strands through your “X” base diagonally and horizontally, going every which way. Make it as full as you’d like.
- Build the inside of the web
- Cut a decent size of yarn and start doubling your yarn up to start the circle.
- To begin creating the circle, hold the folded end of your strand under one of the pieces of yarn that you already have taped up, towards the center.
- Take the tail end of your strand and feed it through the loop where you folded it to tie itself around the strand that you have taped up.
- Move your double strand from each piece of the web to the next piece, just wrapping around each web strand as you go without securing with any knots.
- When you get to the end and have completed a little circle, just tie off in a knot.
- Repeat with larger and larger circles until you are satisfied with the size of your web!
- Add some fun spiders and just entwine the legs into the yarn. No glue or tape necessary!
Notes:
- I’d suggest taping the yarn to objects that stick out from your porch to give the web some dimension – I taped the yarn to a bench I have instead of taping it straight to the wall, so it would *pop* out at ya!
- When trying to figure out the yarn length, it’s better to have too much than too little.
- I got my spiders from the dollar store!
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