My Sons New Growth Chart

I have been wanting to do a growth chart for a while now. 

Originally this is what I wanted to do, from How Does She (and still may) I just have to take the time to sand the wood I have, paint it, mark it and get it hung. 

So in the mean time I ran across a growth chart using jute webbing. Now I am new to the craft world and don't know much about material so I had never heard of jute webbing. :) It took me asking the lady at Joanns to help me find it. 

So I purchased 2 yards this week and googled different pictures of growth charts to see how I wanted mine to end up. 

Here are a few

Jenny Collier Photography

Beth Marie Photography

This one featured at Sew Dang Cute by Wipperberry is my favorite.

Love the key tags used to mark the growth.

She even packaged hers up in a cute gift box!

LOVE IT! 

Here is what I ended up doing.

Sorry I am horrible with pictures

I kinda took a little bit from each and I really like it.

I still need to find where I want to hang it....

Oh and I did use the round key tags! I love them! I have my son's name on the back side of the tag and then the date, his weight and height. 

Here is how I made mine

I took my giant sharpie and used stencil to mark the numbers

 

I went all the way up to 6 feet

DON'T FORGET TO ACOUNT FOR ANY BASEBOARD OR SPACE BELOW THE CHART.
My first inch starts at 6 inches. 

  

Then I marked each inch. For ease of measuring later.

 Ta-Da

Originally I had used my hemp chord with holes but as you can see I didn't space them far enough apart and it wanted to fold over on itself. So instead, I added wood.

I tied on the hemp, folder over the jute webbing and hot glued it.

What do you think?

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