When it comes to decorating my home, I love creating one-of-a-kind upcycles.
By using interesting and unique items for my DIY projects, I can create beautiful decorative items that are sure to impress anyone who comes to visit my house, like these lamps made out of rustic chicken feeders.
And when I saw these genius upcycle projects involving embroidery hoops, I knew I had to add them to my DIY to-do list.
Embroidery hoops are normally used to keep fabric taut during the embroidering process. But these wooden hoops come in multiple sizes, and they can make for some visually interesting customized upcycles.
With a few simple supplies and a little bit of imagination, you can make a special DIY project that is perfect for any room in your home.
Scroll through below for quite a few creative ways to upcycle embroidery hoops for use in your house or office!
Which of these embroidery projects would you want to try? Let us know in the comments!
Create a gorgeous stained-glass decoration using an embroidery hoop, transparent paper, and plastic color filters.
To make this upcycle, simply cover the hoop with the transparent paper, and use a glue stick to apply the plastic color filters in geometric shapes and patterns.
With just hoops, clothespins, and some wire, you can create a one-of-a-kind photo mobile.
This DIY-er used a wood stain to give the clothespins and hoops a more polished look.
By selecting a few different fabric patterns and attaching them to embroidery hoops, this DIY-er created a lightweight decoration that was colorful and simple enough to hang from the ceiling with just some string.
You can also use embroidery hoops to add some flair to a simple, bare lightbulb.
By overlapping four embroidery hoops and fastening them with a screw, this DIY-er was able to create an extremely unique hanging lamp.
Use your embroidery hoop to create your very own DIY pincushion.
Simply glue a piece of cork board to the bottom, add some fiber filling, and cover it with a piece of adorable fabric.
Store your extra spools of thread with this hoop that doubles as a piece of wall art.
This DIY-er hot-glued small wooden dowels to a regular embroidery hoop and slipped a spool of thread over each one.
With just some beautiful fabric and glue, this DIY-er turned embroidery hoops into wall art.
By varying the fabric choices, you can mix and match the patterns in a special and unique way.
Using sequins, glue, and colorful felt pieces, you can create a hanging mobile out of embroidery hoops.
This is the perfect project for showing off your creativity, and it can be hung either indoors or outside on the porch.
When this DIY-er didn't have anywhere to keep her brooches, she created this upcycled hoop display to hang on her bathroom wall.
For anyone who has a wedding or formal event coming up, embroidery hoops can make for some thrifty and adorable table numbers.
These hoops are so cute that your guests may just want to take them home as party favors.
By layering a patchwork fabric with a bright solid fabric and adding a few small pockets, this craftswoman created a lovely home for all of her sewing tools. This can be conveniently hung on a wall nearby a favorite sewing nook.
With GPS and smartphones to help us get from point A to point B, paper maps are utilized less and less. But that doesn't mean an old map won't look great on your wall as a piece of embroidery hoop art.
Each of these incredible and inexpensive upcycle ideas will add a unique, personalized touch to any room in your house.
Which of these project ideas do you like the best? Let us know in the comments.
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