$10 Anthropology-Inspired Planter
(Note: this tutorial was created before I had this blog. So the text instructions will not be as in-depth for any posts created before September 30, 2018.)
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Watch the video below to find out if I’m successful! (And text instructions are below)
How you can make it too:
Supplies:
Small flower pot
White rope
White embroidery floss
Copper spray Paint
Faux leather or suede
Scissors
Hot Glue
Instructions:
(sorry these are actually rather confusing, but the video shows you exactly how to do this!)
The first thing we have to do is spray paint the flower pot copper. I applied 2 coats of the paint, following the instructions on the can. I then let it dry overnight.
Next I took the faux suede and marked the material so each strip would be an inch and a half. I did this 3 times to make 3 strips. Then I cut them out. I made sure there was plenty of extra length on the strips.
Now fold the material in to create clean edges. I just used hot glue to do this & didn’t care too much about aligning the material perfectly in the middle, since you won’t really see it. I did that to all 3 strips.
After that, I folded 2 of the strips in half and marked the middle. I then glued them together in a cross shape.
I decided I was just going to permanently attach the straps, so I put some glue on the bottom of the pot and attached the crossed straps
After that, I glues the straps to fit smoothly to the surface of the flower pot.
Then I trimmed the excess off the straps.
Next, I attached the third strap near the top of the pot with hot glue on each of the vertical straps.
After that, I took my 2 and 1/8th yards of rope and cut it in half
A little hack is you can then take some tape around the rope to prevent fraying while you work with it.
Then I went around each of the straps and put a mark at 1/4th inch, then carefully cut a tiny slit, and used a pencil to widen the opening for the rope to go through. Obviously there are better ways to do this, but this seemed to be quick and easy.
Then insert your rope, making sure to insert it on the outside, then take the rope to the strap it’s across from, not adjacent to. Do this with the other piece of rope too.
Next, I used some hot glue to secure the ends of the rope, guesstimating the length of rope folded over
And since that’s really ugly, I wrapped the folded rope with the embroidery floss.
For the top of the rope, I found the middle and secured a loop with some tape. Then I wrapped that in embroidery floss too.
So we’re almost done! We just have to make the tassel… I just took a scrap of the suede and marked it at 2 inches and cut that out. I also cut out a thin strip that will be used to attach the tassel.
Then I marked the suede again at 3/4ths an inch. And began cutting thin strips to that line to make the fringe of the tassel. I just stopped when I decided the tassel was big enough.
I used hot glue to add the loop that’ll attach the tassel and then rolled the whole thing up.
And since there was a copper bead on the Anthro planter, I actually just spray painted a piece of painter’s tape so it was flexible. I feel like you could use a piece of paper or bendy plastic or cardstock too… And even though it’s tape, I used hot glue to secure it
Lastly, I put hot glue on the bottom of the planter & used a pencil to help me hold the tassel in place until it cooled.
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