Simple Yarn and Paperclip Bookmarks

I saw this idea for bookmarks using ribbons and colorful giant paperclips on Pinterest and I love it.

I thought it would be a great idea to make a similar bookmark but with yarn instead of ribbons and where the yarn acts as the bookmark instead of the paperclip. In theory it would be like the built-in ribbon bookmarks in Bibles and fancy books.

Since we are visiting my mother right now, I was able to find plenty of yarn and paperclips all over the house.

I wanted to make a bookmark that had lots of different strands or yarn so that I could mark multiple pages in a book. You could easily make a bookmark with any even number or strands. I did 6.

I cut 3 different long pieces of yarn, and folded them over. I left them long and uneven at the bottom at this point.

I then threaded the pieces of yarn through the small side of a small blue paperclip and tied a knot. You could definitely find a larger or more interesting paperclip.

I then attached the paperclip to the front of a book. I also then cut the bottoms of the strands of yarn to be a little longer than the book. You could also add beads to the bottoms of the strands of yarn.

Now I want to dig through more of my mother’s yarn and make other bookmarks with different color combinations. The entire project took about 5 minutes.