Decorate your home with bright red chili peppers.
Strung chili peppers make a colorful decoration inside and outside the home. Listening to the seeds rattle around inside several dry chili peppers on a windy day also evokes a sense of home to those living in the Southwest. Create a chili pepper garland at home by stringing dried ancho, cayenne or California chili peppers. Place the chili pepper garland in the kitchen or barbecue area of your home for a spicy touch.
Instructions
1. Wash the chili peppers with water to remove any residue. Lay the chili peppers on the sheet of cardboard. Be sure they don't overlap. Set the chili peppers outside in direct sunlight for two weeks to dry out.
2. Organize the chili peppers on the cardboard in the order the chili peppers will be strung. Cut 14 inches of the cotton string with scissors, and tie one end of the cotton string around one metal craft ring. Thread the other end of the cotton string through the upholstery needle, and tie a knot around the needle's eyelet.
3. Insert the upholstery needle and cotton string through each chili pepper, 1-1/2 inches below each chili pepper's stem. String wood beads between each chili pepper for an artistic look. Stop adding chili peppers 2 inches before the cotton string's end.
4. Cut the cotton string from the upholstery needle eyelet with scissors. Tie the loose cotton string end to another metal craft ring. Hang the strung chili peppers on completion.
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