A homemade gift: Yarn Wrapped Letters

I was in need of a cute, inexpensive gift idea for Christmas presents for two of my nieces who are 5 and 9 when I came across this cute craft project for yarn wrapped letters.  My nieces love things for their rooms and I thought the idea of hanging their monograms on the wall in the form of these yarn wrapped letters would be a really neat idea.  So, a couple of weeks before Christmas I went to Michael's to get the letters and yarn, and I got started.

One girl's room is blue and pink and the other is pink and purple so I tried to match those themes.  I got white wooden letters in different sizes and yarn from Michael's.  I took some in-progress photos but I can't seem to find them anywhere so here is the finished version:

You can see that I wasn't perfect at geting al of the little corners covered but I still think they turned out pretty well...

I added strings so they could be hung and then hung them on a piece of cardboard so that I could box them up and wrap them for gifts.

The girls loved them and hopefully next time I go see them I can get a shot of the finished product in their rooms!