Yarn Wrapped Letters

My girlfriend Caroline and I have been friends since the first day of Freshman year high school. In school your homeroom was assigned in alphabetical order by last name. So me and Car always sat next to each other. When we met I instantly loved her, she has a laugh so contagious anyone would immediately smile upon hearing it. We became closer and closer through the years, of course it doesn't hurt that my husband and her husband have been best friends since high school too!
So, the other weekend all of our friends were having a little gathering and I found some cardboard letters in a bin. I pulled them out and realized they spelled Camille (Car's daughters name). I was immediately smitten and asked if I could take them home to wrap in yarn. For Valentines I had wrapped the word LOVE (pictured above). I really liked how they turned out. I find them soft and warming. For Millie (that is what we call Camille) I knew I could do the same. Ever so graciously, Caroline let me take them home. I was excited to see how a lowercase letter would wrap, well let me just tell you they are a little more difficult than the uppercase. With the uppercase letters there is more defined structure, no rounded ends per-say. For uppercase the yarn catches on the corner and you can continue to wrap them. I really do not like using a ton of hot glue on the fronts to keep the yarn attached, however with the lowercase letters (especially a) I had too. They are a little thicker and the back is not perfect, but yarn to the wind, who is looking at the backs! At the end of the day I was really happy with the final product and I really hope Millie likes them too!
As I was crafting Camille, I realized I had to also bring something for Millie's older and younger brothers. For Max and Ben I painted a wood letter in fun colors and only wrapped a small portion. I wanted to imitate a varsity preppy design. Here is how they all turned out!

The final products:

I added some felt roses and some pink yarn to accent the letters. Michael actually gave me the idea to make a flower as the dot on the I. I loved that idea! Crafting is really rubbing off on him!