Trudy over at Sewing With Trudy mentioned in either FB or a blog post that she'd made some hula hoops for a church craft sale. I thought, hmmm.... That sounds pretty cool! How do you make those? So I emailed her.Got some instructions back and pondered on it for a week or so. Finally had time to go to the local Lowes (Home depot kind of place) and got the instructions all wrong in my head. For some reason I had gotten to thinking that I needed flexible PVC pipes to do this with. So Meri and I scoured the plumbing section and found some 9 foot long flexible PVC pipes. One of them was 3/4" in diameter, the other was 1/2". We couldn't decide which to use, so got both. Also picked up some colorful electrical tape.
Got home and cut about 1.5' off using a knife heated with a candle, used duct tape to seal the seam and promptly made tear-shaped hoops. Not exactly useful... oh boy... I dug out the email that Trudy had sent me and checked it again. Oops! I was supposed to pick up irrigational tubing... and in looking at some websites I found on how to make them, also a connector piece.Well, I didn't have those things... So I cut off the duct tape and in the 3/4" pipe, I inserted a piece of the 1/2" pipe to hold the two ends together and duct taped it again. It's more of a circle now and then dolled it up with the red and green electrical tape.
The girls are having a good time! and WOW, is it great exercise! Next time I get to Lowes, I'll pick up some of the irrigational tubing and try it again. If I can figure this out, then I know what I'll be making for our church craft sale next fall as well as gifts over the summer...
