Blue Castle

When I read about the yarn contest, the image that came to mind was a castle.  The first thing I did is gather together a pile of materials that could possibly be used for building.   Having no clear idea how this was all going to come together, I wasted a lot of time and yarn on trial and errors.  Eventually it occured to me that if I got all the boxes and things I wanted to use and stacked  them all up into a 'naked' castle (no yarn), it would prevent me from going on anymore yarn tangents.  The main problem for the whole project was the difficulty getting the yarn to stick to things.  For broad flat surfaces, rubber cement worked well, for details, white glue was o.k.- didn't occur to me to use fabric glue- maybe that would work better.

All the stuff in this instructable are things I had around already- I didn't buy anything- you can really use just about anything for this kind of project.

Materials I ended up using:

yarn
white glue
rubber cement
scissors
tubes from p. towels, t. paper, whatever
cardboard
boxes
skewers
tape
paint & brushes
ribbon
wire
toothpics
pins
yarn needle
wire cutters
ruler
pencil, sharpie

Step 1 Step 1

I made a pattern for the skinny building with the peak- you can use the basic idea and tweak the shapes to make one for whatever kind of structure you want to make.  I left it open on the side that meets the larger building. Also, the top is cut off as it's easier to wrap, and I like the way it looks as a separate thing.  The far left piece is the side I didn't use- to make that side correctly, it should be the same size as the square in the center

Comments

[animejunky2003]

awesome

[dismissie]

thanks animejunky2003! (twice! :-} )

[animejunky2003]

wow awesome:)

[Wonderlandknitter]

This project should have made the finalist round--you did a great job building with yarn, which is what I thought we were supposed to do. I'm sorry they didn't pick you! I mean most of the finalist projects are really great but yours is right up there with them!

[dismissie]

Hi Wonderlandknitter- thanks so much for the complements- it was a fun instructable- (I'm rooting for the crochet covered chair- it's sooo awesome!).

[Wonderlandknitter]

Beautiful!

[dismissie]

Thank you!

[ChrysN]

Nicely done!

[dismissie]

Thanks!

[rkramer]

When I looked at it I said "wow". Then I showed it to Leif and he said "wow".