This string art kit was a really novel take on the craft. Instead of using nails hammered into wood to make the outline of the design to anchor the string around, it uses pins pushed into foam boards. This makes it such an easy craft to do, especially with limited time and space. This kit is from the Makerly subscription and isn’t currently available to purchase on their website, although they do keep a small back catalogue of popular kits for sale online. I like the Makerly subscription as they quite often do crafts that I wouldn’t have tried myself and sometimes have never even heard of, that are usually based in the traditions or origins of that craft.

Included in this kit was:

• Foam boards x2
• Metallic thread x9 (green, blue, purple, bronze, red, white, silver, yellow gold, antique gold)
• Pins

The pins had round heads to keep the string in place and were quite short, although you do still need to be careful of pushing them too far into the foam as they do poke out the other side slightly. The process was really easy to do; draw a simple design, trace it onto tissue paper (that was used as packaging in the box), place the tissue onto the foam and use it as a guide to push in the pins at 1 cm intervals, tear off the tissue and you are ready to string it up!

The kit came with the apple design, but having two boards gave the opportunity to create a second design of your own. The great thing about it is that its so easy to do that if you don’t want to keep what you’ve created you can just pull the pins out and design something new. The range of colours that came with the kit was really generous and meant you could play around with colour combinations and layouts depending on your design.