New Year is approaching, it's time to decorate the Christmas tree and decorate the apartment with festive decorations. Once upon a time there was a tradition in Russian families - to decorate a beautiful forest tree with toys made by oneself. Moms with children, long before Christmas and New Year, glued colorful paper and cardboard bright lanterns, cute little animals, threaded glass beads for garlands. Nowadays, handmade creativity has again become fashionable, so why not try to make elegant Christmas tree decorations with your own hands? A tree with such toys will become even more elegant and nicer.
Let's make a Christmas ball of threads and use three very simple ways. First, make a beautiful spider web. We need a balloon, strong cotton threads of bright New Year's colors (blue, red, white, yellow, etc.), PVA glue or paste, petroleum jelly or other fatty substance, a small plastic jar with a lid, a thick needle with a large eyelet. We pull the thread in the needle, then in the lid and in the bottom of the jar we pierce the hole with a needle and let the thread pass through them. We pour glue into the jar, close the lid, the thread passes through the adhesive composition. Put on gloves and apron, take the ball and inflate it to a diameter of 8-10 cm. Now start wrapping it around the thread on the principle of winding the coil. We wind the thread in several layers loose, leaving gaps. That's all. We cut off the thread, we hide the tip of it, and hang the ball about one day. Then we pierce the needle with a needle, let out air, pull it out from the inside. It turned out a light balloon of threads in the form of a transparent spider web. On the one hand, we sew a loop of a narrow satin ribbon, we will sew two or three beads for decoration. You can hang it on the tree.
Girls who know how to crochet, easily make lace decorative balls of thread. You will need thread for knitting, better with lurex, air balloon, PVA glue, slightly diluted with water, crochet hook, satin ribbon. Let's choose different lace schemes for knitting round napkins. The pattern is better to take lace and transparent. We tie two round napkins of small diameter (8-10 cm), connect them together in the form of a ball and perch in glue. Air balloon grease, put inside knitted and inflated. Lace will straighten out and take the desired form. We dry the ball of threads, pierce the rubber base and pull it out. Decorate the lace miracle with a satin bow, make a noose and hang it on the Christmas tree.
How to make balls of thread on the tree in the third way? For their manufacture, any thread (silk, mohair, cotton, lurex, etc.) will do. Still need plastic transparent Christmas toys or foam plastic blanks for them, a needle and various decor (beads, beads, ribbons, feathers). In the Christmas tree we remove the fastener (the loop for which it is hung) and begin to wind it with threads from all directions in different directions, creating a dense flat surface. The threads are wound in several rows, very even and neat. We got a ball of colored threads of the same color in our hands. Now let's deal with its decor. We will insert into the needle a thread of contrasting color and embroider on the ball of the star. On a contour oboshjem their stalkchatym a seam silver thread. We will decorate the surface with colored beads. A ball of yarn is ready! Instead of embroidery, they also use applique, for example from crocheted flowers and snowflakes.