Fall Pears

For our November Pinterest Club we made these cute little pears

The picture tutorial pretty much explains it all, these were so easy and they are so cute, I am going to be making a few more today to decorate my Thanksgiving table and when I am done using them for fall decor I am just going to display them in a fun vase, they are fun year round!

We used the Natural Jute, in both the light and dark color, from Hobby Lobby, it is only $3.29 for 400 feet and you need about 6 yards of the dark for 1 pear and about 8 yards of the lighter color for 1 pear.One roll of twine of the dark will make over 20 pears! The darker is much easier to work with but its fun to have two colors. I thought about using some red and yellow yarn to add more color to the table but I don't think I will. You could probably paint them though- I will be trying that after I make a bunch more. I thought my light bulbs looked a little too narrow at the top so I just went back and wrapped a double layer of twine over the skinny part and I liked that look a little better. We used hot glue and just glued as we wrapped. On the skinny part I just glued a few lines for about an inch vertically down the bulb and then twirled and wrapped really fast but along the wider part the twine slips so you need to glue more horizontally as you wrap.
On an easy scale of 1-10 I give these an 8.5 for super easy, it just can get a little tricky around the wide part- but you can go back over bare spots!! On a pain scale of 1-10 they get a 4, I had little glue blisters all over my thumbs from the hot glue! Ouch! It was worth the pain though, I love them!!