Happy Thursday everyone! We are almost to the weekend! Woot Woot! 🙂 Today I wanted to share the tutorial for these adorable Spring blocks. These neutral DIY spring wooden blocks would be a cute addition to any spring decor. They can be used on a spring mantel or in a simple vignette. Being neutral in color, they would work with any color scheme. You could also change up the wording to say whatever you wanted so they could work for anytime as well!

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For this project you will need:

• Crocheted Lace Table Runner (I found mine at Hobby Lobby)
• Mod Podge
• Scissors
• Burlap roll
• Foam brush
• Ultra Fine Point Sharpie marker
• Hot glue gun & glue sticks
• Scrap Wood
• Wood Stain (color of your choice, we used Minwax Gunstock)
• Off White Acrylic paint
• Miter Saw (or hand saw would work)
• Router

The crocheted letters were made out of a table runner from Hobby Lobby. I actually made and used them on a banner for my purple palette spring mantel last year, but I loved the letters so much that I wanted re-purpose them to use again this year. You can check out the tutorial for the spring banner to see how the letters were made. I removed the letters from the banner gingerly, crossing my fingers that the letters would stay intact. Luckily they came off with no problem!

I thought it would be cute to attach them to some blocks and have those sitting on the mantel. We have lots of wood scraps in the wood shop and I figured this would be a good way to use up some of those scraps! We laid out some of the wood scraps and I put the letters on the blocks to see how they would look. Most of the wood scraps were 2×6″ except the piece for the letter ‘I’. Since that letter is so skinny we thought it would look better on a thinner piece of wood. We used a 2×4″ for that one.

To give the blocks more visual interest, I decided to vary the heights of the blocks instead of making them all the same. We arranged the blocks to the desired heights and drew a line across the bottom of the pieces that needed to be cut off. Mr. Wonderful cut the blocks down to size using a miter saw. If you don’t have a miter saw, you could easily do this with another kind of saw, even a hand saw would work!

As you can see in the pictures, some of the scrap wood pieces had rounded edges and others were straight so the next step was to round off all of the edges. This would make them all look more uniform. Mr. Wonderful used a router to round off the sides and top edges of each block although you could do this many different ways. We left the bottoms with a straight edge so they would sit evenly.

We applied an aging stain to the blocks initially. However, the aging stain did not change the color of the blocks enough. So I decided to apply some Minwax stain as well. That did the trick!

Initially I applied the crochet letters right to the wood blocks but it looked too plain so I decided to dress them up a little with some burlap. I thought the burlap would also go well with the pallet board backdrop on the spring mantel. In order to show off the burlap a little more, I painted the front face of the blocks with an off white acrylic paint.

I applied the paint with a foam brush and I was able to get a straight edge with that pretty well. The router had left a little bit of a straight line on the edge so I tried to follow that. I did not want to use the foam brush to get all the way in the corners though as I was pretty sure it would be too hard. So I used a small paintbrush for the corners. I took the paint all the way down to the bottom as there was not a routered edge on that.

By the time I finished painting the blocks, the first ones I painted were dry so I sized the burlap to the block. I decided to leave a little white showing around all the edges. I determined how tall the burlap needed to be and snipped a thread where I needed to cut.

Any easy way to make a straight cut on burlap is to snip one of the threads on each side and remove that single thread from the burlap. Then you will have a guide line to follow with the scissors.

After double checking the size of the burlap was correct, I applied Mod Podge to the face of the block where the burlap would cover. I carefully laid the burlap down on the block and was able to move it around a little if it needed it. After the placement was correct, I pressed it down fully.

Lastly, I applied hot glue to the back of the crochet letters on the same areas where the hot glue was before. I applied them to the block making sure they were centered.

It may sound involved but it was actually a very easy project. Also it is one that you could personalize to whatever you wanted it to be too! How cute would it be to make blocks to display that say a baby’s name or your family’s last name? Let your imagination fly!

Here are some other pictures of the finished product. I would love to hear from you if you make some blocks for yourself and see the pictures of what you make! Feel free to email me pictures of projects you make anytime! 🙂

Enjoy the rest of spring as summer is fast approaching! That is the only bad thing about spring, it is too short! 🙂