A quick guide on how to make a Pencil Holder with toilet rolls, twine and hemp rope.
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Crafting is fun and anything crafted must involve passion. If you put your soul into what you’re doing, your project is going to be a success.For the first project at hemp100 we decided to do something very easy that doesn’t involve many tools and for which hardly any skills are required. We had great fun making the pencil holder and even more taking the pictures.
Creating a Pencil Holder out of two toilet paper rolls is easy and doesn’t require any special skills.
First you have to save some toilet roll paper cards and imagine how good they would look when wrapped in hemp. I imagine a lot of things wrapped in hemp rope or twine. If you give it a try you will see that anything wrapped in hemp looks marvelous.
Cut the paper roll
Cut one of the rolls at about a ¾ of its length and you will end up with one full length roll and two smaller ones.
Wrap the twine
To wrap them I have used a silicon glue gun and our 1.5 mm Hemp Twine. All you have to do is to stick one end of the twine to the toilet paper roll and wrap it few times and use another drop of glue and repeat the procedure. If you wrap the twine tightly you only have to use a small amount of glue.
You can use PVC glue or any other kind of glue or you can make your own glue.
In future I plan to do my own glue as it’s not hard at all: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Glue
The tricky bit is at the end of the roll where you have to use a bit more glue to make sure the twine is tightly attached to the paper roll so that the end of the twine is properly sticking to the roll.
Glue rolls toghether
Next step is to glue all three rolls wrapped in hemp twine together in a vertical position with the bottom part aligned. Choosing to make a triangle out of the rolls makes sense as it gives increased stability.
Coil Hemp Rope
It already looks like a Pencil Holder without a support base. To create a support base I have coiled about two meters of 6 mm Hemp Rope. To make it more rigid and stable add some drops of glue between the coil layers. Again at the loose end of the coil you have to make sure is tightly glued. Stop when the diameter of the coiled rope is big enough to accommodate the three rolls wrapped in twine.
To stick the wrapped toilet rolls onto the 6 mm hemp base we used the glue gun and covered the bottom of the rolls with silicon.
Final Touch
I wasn’t happy how it looked after I have attached the rolls onto the base as you could see the silicon drops so I have glued one 1.5 mm hemp twine just at the base to cover it.
This is how I created a Pencil Holder with Hemp Twine, Toilet Roll and some Glue. I hope you’ve enjoyed our blog post.
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Written by Pavel Perju