Team Jaime {and Rainbow Yarn Letter Tutorial}

Frikin’ Frak!
Shoot!
Frickity Frik Frak!
Bleep Cancer!!!!!!!
(just in case you don’t know me, that’s my cussing)
One of my dear friends, Jaime, found a lump in her breast and two weeks later she is starting chemo. She had no symptoms (except the lump) and now we know it has passed though her lymph nodes and has metastasized in her liver.
Effin’ cancer.
Jaime’s heart and attitude through all of this is so inspiring. Please check out her blog if you get a chance and let her know you are praying for her with a comment or two.

Jaime’s birthday was right before chemo (Blarg), so we planned a surprise party at Luna Grill (which is super yummy HEALTHY Mediterranean food).

Of course we gave her some Lids, but my favorite gift was a sweatshirt that we put our handprints all over with words of encouragement.
So she can see our hands praying over her as she is in chemo.

We ordered cupcakes from Meringue Bake shop.
(you may remember her cupcakes at my sister’s wedding)

So yummy!
I decorated the tables (I’ll post more on the décor next time).
Jaime loves rainbows and since she brings so much sunshine into everyone’s lives, a rainbow theme was the obvious answer.
By far, everyone’s favorite centerpiece was the rainbow ‘J’!!
So I’ll show you how to make one of your own.

How to make a Rainbow Yarn Letter

You’ll need:

• An 18” paper mache letter of choice
• Gold spray paint
• About 5-10 yards of each color of yarn if using 10 colors
• Pencil
• Hot glue gun and sticks

This project is great if you already have lots of yarn colors because it only only uses 5-10 yards of yarn per color – a skein has over 250. But if you don’t have any yarn, keep in mind, each skein is about $5. With 10 colors you are looking at a $50 yarn letter! Try to borrow yarn from a friend or buy the yarn and make dozens of letters! (My friend Emmy gave me her yarn AND inspired this project with letters she made for the most recent Adopt Swap.)

1. Spray paint the ends of your letter and any “sharp” curves gold.

Funny story… I was setting out the items for the picture and I kept thinking… something looks wrong. But couldn’t pinpoint it until I was looking at the pictures later! HA!

2. Arrange your colors in the order you want them on the letter. Then divide the letter into equal sections. I just eyeballed it and put a light pencil line where I needed to stop wrapping the yarn.

3. Put a glob of glue around the the top and start wrapping. It’s easier if it looks a little messy. As you are wrapping you may want to add a glob of glue every once in a while to make the yarn more secure. Helpful Tip: Lightly mark the back with pencil, you’ll be twisting so much it’s hard to remember which side faces front, and you’ll want that part to be prettier.

Have a snack close by because the wrapping can take some time!
(I had leftover Minestrone soup from The Fresh 20. Yummers.)

4. When you finish a color, press the yarn into a glob of glue and snip.

5. Then (you guessed it) put a glob of glue down and start wrapping the new color. Be sure you start and end colors on the back of your letter, just in case it looks gloppy.

6. While making turns you have to do a lot more yarn wrapping. Put a fair amount of glue on the curves to keep the yarn from slipping and showing a gap. But since you spray painted a rad color on those curves, you can get piece-y with the yarn and that looks great too!

7. Finish by putting a bead of glue around the top and pressing the yarn secure around the edge. To hid the end of the yarn separate the yarn about an inch from the end and put a glob of glue, press in the end and snip.

Now give this rainbow to someone who brings sunshine to your world!

Please join me in praying for Jaime! You’ll see #teamJaime on some of my facebook and instagram posts. Now you know who I’m talking about.
Effin’ cancer.

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