As I wandered through the most recent MintLife posts, I came across a great article about outdoor DIY projects. Since summer is in full swing here in South Florida, I thought I would share one of them.
When I was little, my family spent most weekends and vacations in the Florida Keys. Although my family and I moved to different houses a few times during my childhood, one thing remained the same– every house always had a hammock. I began to associate hammocks with a necessary part of summer fun, or general beachtime fun. My family would sit in our hammocks and watch the sunrise; my neighborhood friends would come over and we would have lunch on the hammock. The hammock became our home base for hide-and-seek or manhunt and the spot where each of us waited our turn to go on a jet-ski.
Sufficient to say, a hammock, for me, is pretty intrinsic in feeling like it is summer. So to celebrate the height of summer, here is a DIY Summer Hammock made by Kate at Design Sponge. All you will need are the following:
- cotton beach towel/blanket or piece of fabric at least 40″ x 80″
- scissors
- pins
- 1″ leather strapping (if your sewing machine cannot sew leather, nylon or canvas strapping would also work)
- mid- or heavyweight cotton muslin or canvas (at least 4″ x 40″)
- rope for hanging hammock (I used this)
- zip-ties
- cotton twine
Check out the rest of the instructions for this Hammock DIY.
What is your favorite summer memory? Let us know in the comments below or on facebook.com/thesobremesa.
