How To Make Your Own Rustic Star
Do you need a decorative piece for your mantle? Need to fill large wall space with something but don’t want to have to deal with picture frames or put a bunch of holes in your wall?
The oldie but goodie, the rustic star is one of my favorite home decor items to make. Back when I was in college and had an apartment I couldn’t really go around pounding holes into the wall to hang my decor or even have a lot of decor-apparently it’s a fire hazard and would result in no deposit back. I had one wall that was large-in apartment standards and I wanted, needed to put something there. Something that would work with every season but could also be easily accented for the seasons or holidays. I stumbled across this simple star and with some minor improvements, was able to get exactly what I was looking for!
In this post, I am going to teach you how to make your own rustic star, step-by-step.
Materials
*Hot Glue Gun with glue
*10 paint sticks
*Jute Twine or anything similar and lots of it!
That’s it!
Making The Star
Step 1
Take your twine, measure it to the length of whatever surface you are using, triple that length-so 3 times the length of the surface you are using, and cut
*Repeat 9 more times
Step 2
Grab a paint stick, your hot glue gun-which should be warm and ready to go, and one strand of twine.
Measure a rough inch from one end of the stick in-about the width of two fingers, and place a thick line of glue. Immediately place one end of the twine onto the hot glue and try to press the twine down-this will be hot and you may even burn yourself on the hot glue, so use something to protect your fingers
Step 3
Begin wrapping the twine tightly around the paint stick; making sure that you are not leaving gaps. If you do end up with a gap, just gently push up on the group of twine until the gab closes.
Continue to wrap the stick until you have the same amount of stick exposed at the opposite end-so about an inch of unwrapped paint sick on both ends.
*If you run out of twine-as in your strand was not long enough, hot glue the end and get more twine to wrap. Go back to step 2 and continue.
*Repeat until all 10 paint sticks are wrapped.
Step 4
Take 2 paint sticks and hot glue two ends together at an angle. You can go as wide or as thin as you want with the angle as long as you don’t go to 90 degrees or higher. If it helps, have a picture of a star-like the one found in this post, to use as a reference.
Repeat this process of gluing 2 sticks together until you have the 5 points of your star.
Step 5
Measure out your strands again; this time one surface length should be enough.
Now we are going to wrap the glued portion of your star point.
Start as close to the top of the point as you can.
Put some hot glue along the edge and then the twine.
*You may need to hot glue and wrap at the same time.
*You will want to continue wrapping until no more paint stick is showing.
Try to get hot glue inside the point to secure the end of your strand.
Step 6
Hot glue the points together! Take the bottom of one paint stick and glue it to the bottom of another paint stick-wide part to wide part. Again this will be at a slight angle. It would be a great idea to consult an image as you eye-ball this process. You should end up with something that resembles a star!
Step 7
Finally, cut more strands for the remaining intersections. Two times the length of your surface should be good.
Hot glue one end at the center of the intersection and wrap until no more paint stick is showing.
Secure the other end by hot-gluing it in a place where it will blend in.
AND DONE!
Hanging Your Star
Like I mentioned above, I wanted to avoid putting holes in my wall or at least to only have to put one. You have some options on how you can go about doing this.
Use Command Hooks
2. Thumb Tack either hot glued to a point, wedged between the twine, or resting in the inner point
3. Hot Gluing or Nailing a picturing hanging bracket to the back of a point.
4. Tying or Hot Gluing ribbon, string, or fishing line around or on the back of a point and hanging it from any of the above-mentioned devices or from the ceiling if you have a drop ceiling.
Extras
The sky is the limit on the different things you can add to your star to “dress it up”. I tend to think of this star as a type of wreath, meaning anything I would see or use in a wreath can be used on my star. You can choose to attach things more permanently with glue or try and entwine it into the twine that’s wrapped around your star.
Get creative! Try things out! Have fun!
~MeganRelated Posts
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