String Art

This was a very time consuming project and took a lot of time, effort, and TONS OF PATIENCE!  And I had gotten several ideas from Pinterest that ended up turning into one project.  I used a regular corkboard from Michael's because it was cheap and did the job and could use push pins because I'm on a budget.

The first part "LOVE" I got the font from a statue that I had seen on my trip to Maine...

I was actually going to do this but I didn't have space for it and couldn't get my "O" to turn right.  But I basically went on Word and made the font really big (as big as I wanted) and printed them out and cut them out and place them where I want.  After I had them placed I began to put push pins around them with a little space in between them.  Then I went on to do the heart.  Now North Carolina was a little more difficult to do because I couldn't find anything big enough and then when I did I couldn't print it out all on one sheet.  This is where I found this program called GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program (http://www.gimp.org/).  It allowed me to make the image print into 3 different sheets of paper.  I used a tutorial called 

Screen Print an Image Larger Than 8.5 x 11 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciY6e60Pt-8&feature=player_embedded#! )which showed me how to use the program (he used it for screen printing but it worked for this project too!).

Some of the process.  I used different color string for each.

The idea for the state I got from http://theharpsterhome.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/heart-in-ohio/

That part is where I used the GIMP program I mentioned above.

And the heart I got the idea from this picture, I couldn't find a tutorial on it on the link and it was in Portuguese.

But basically I just have to wrap the string around a bunch.  North Carolina was the hardest especially with where I live being on the far western side of the state.  Just play around and find out what works best for you :)