Hanging Placemat Pendant

11:48 PM | Posted by StepThruCrazy | Edit Post

First let me say HOLY GUACAMOLE I have about a million things going on at once right now!  So many projects, so little time.  It's all good though, that means more tutorials!  I made this hanging pendant a while ago, and am now just getting to blogging about it.

It's made completely from those cheap vinyl placemats from the dollar store, and hot glue.  That's it!  My tutorial doesn't call for any lighting, but that could definitely be done somehow.  I don't live close enough to an Ikea (gasp!) to get one of those super cheap hanging lamp kits, so that's pretty much why I went light-less.  No big deal, considering I put this over a little table in my kids' room.  They couldn't care less. :)

Enough yapping, lets get down to it!

To make this pendant, you'll need:

 

• Three 11 1/4" x 17" vinyl placemats
• hot glue gun & extra glue sticks
• strong string/twine
• craft knife
• scissors
• drill with drill bit large enough for your string to fit through (I used a 6/64??? Something like that...)

 I grabbed these cute placemats from my local dollar store for 50 cents a piece!  Nice!



Start by cutting one 1"x17" strip from two of the placemats.   Make sure to cut one from each so that the two placemats are the same size (for cutting strips from later).  Glue them together to form a circle, overlapping the edges by 1 1/2".


Take your craft knife and get ready for some cutting!  Cut 24 1 1/2" x 10 1/4" strips.  Take your first strip and glue it to the inside of your circle,





and glue another to the opposite side of the circle.  Glue the two together at the top, overlapping by 1 1/2".