DIY yarn wall hanging |

Hello everyone! This is week 5 of the One Room Challenge. Welcome to my blog where I share my passion for creating comforting homes by thrifting, sewing and a little diy-ing along the way! While I’m not averse to buying new. I love being able to stretch a budget AND get that “layered over time” look that comes from incorporating pieces that have had a previous life! You can follow my decorating journey on the HomeSpunStyle Instagram.

If you missed my previous posts, you can catch up here:

Week 1 – Before photos and design board

Week 2 – Boho basket wall

Week 3 – DIY kilim pillows

Week 4 – DIY mid-century style plant stand

As I shared in earlier posts, the greatest challenge in our One Room Challenge college apartment makeover has been the constraints on what I can do with the walls. Because the townhouse is campus housing, I am prohibited from make any permanent changes to the walls which means no painting! So I have had to get really creative with figuring out ways to camouflage the pale yellow walls on the cheap!

This week, I made a large yarn wall hanging. It was easy, quick and inexpensive which meets all my requirements for a great project! This could even be a no-cost project if you have left over yarn and a stick, dowel or pipe of some sort.

Yarn Wall hanging in grey, blush, rose, cream hanging from dowel on shiplap wall with plant in fore ground.

For my wall hanging, I purchased a 3 foot dowel, 1/2 inch in diameter at Michael’s. With my coupon, it cost about $1. I could have bought a shorter one but wasn’t sure at the time how wide I wanted it to be.

I also purchased 4 skeins of yarn in cream, light grey, rose and blush, all from Michael’s with coupons of course! The dark grey textural yarn was left over from another project.

Skeins of yarn in blush, cream, grey, rose and dark grey laying on cutting mat

I picked the colors based on this mood board I had put together earlier for the makeover:

mood board in rose, grey, cream and blush with color blocked Target rug, Five Below boho rug, air plant, cactus and desert print

Here’s how I made it:

1.First, I cut 10 pieces of yarn in every color. I made them about 5 feet in length, not knowing for sure how long I wanted the wall hanging to be. Each piece of yarn gets folded in half so the actual length is half of whatever length you cut your pieces to.

cutting mat with length of rose yarn laid out

2.Then I laid them out on the floor and started playing with a design until I got the look I was going for.

3.To attach the yarn to the dowel, I folded the piece of yarn in half, slipped the folded end under the dowel, and then pulled the ends of the yarn though the loop. I made sure I went in the same direction, putting my loop under the dowel rather than over it, so that all my pieces had the knot in the front.

grey yarn attached to dowel on cutting mat

grey yarn shown looped over wood dowel on cutting mat

You can choose to have the knots facing out or the plain side facing out. Here’s how the other side looks.

close up of yarn wall hanging in cream, blush, rose and dark grey on dowel

4. I kept going until my piece was about 20 inches wide. As I worked, I hung it on the wall periodically so I could stand back to look at the overall effect. If a color needed more intensity , I added more strands and if a color needed to be less prominent I took out a few strands.

grey, cream, blush and rose yarn on dowel on cutting mat

5.The last step was to cut the ends. I chose to do a straight across cut but I’ve seen others cut into a V or an inverted V as well. My rotary cutter and cutting mat worked great for getting all the lengths even.

woman's hand and rotary cutter cutting yarn wall hanging on cutting mat

6.To hang it I used a length of jute twine and tied it to each end of the dowel.

Yarn wall hanging in grey, cream, rose and blush with plant in tall plant stand and bohemian rug against shiplap wall

Yarn wall hanging in grey, cream rose and blush hanging on shiplap wall with plant in tall wood stand and boho rug at the bottom

This project was so simple. It’s a great way to create wall art that is completely customizable to the colors in your space. And you can size up or down depending on your need.

This weekend I’ll be delivering the wall hanging and other accessories and making some final tweaks to the space. Next week I’ll be revealing the finished living area! I hope you’ll come back and check it out. In the meantime, be sure to check out all of the other Guest Participants in the One Room Challenge to follow along with their progress. There are also 20 Featured Participants which you can follow too!

Debra