instructions
Designed by Melissa DiRenzo
thesweetescape.ca
YOU WILL NEED
• 3”-diameter foam ball
• Christmas sweater
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• 3/8”-wide satin ribbon
• Elastic thread: metallic
Note: A child’s sweater works best
because the small sleeve fits snugly
around the foam ball. If you are using
an adult-size sweater or are taking a
swatch from the center of a sweater,
measure to determine how much you
need to wrap the ball; add an extra
1” to both the top and bottom edges.
Lay the foam ball on top of the
sweater portion you’ve chosen. Cut
the desired portion.
Turn the sweater piece wrong side
out. If the sweater piece isn’t a tube,
sew the edges together to form a
tube.
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Using a needle and thread,
take small, evenly spaced running
stitches around an open edge of the
sweater tube to create the bottom.
End stitching next to starting point;
do not knot or cut thread. Gently pull
thread ends to gather bottom edge.
Knot and trim thread. Turn tube right
side out.
Slide the foam ball inside the
sweater tube. Trim open edge to 1”
from foam ball.
Using a pencil, poke a hole in the
top of the foam ball. Fill hole with hot
glue, then use the pencil to gather
and poke the extra sweater material
into the hole. Pull firmly on the
sweater material to make it fit snugly
around the ball.
Tie satin ribbon bow. Secure bow
to top of ornament with a drop of hot
glue. Tie elastic thread through bow
to make a hanging loop.
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Cut coffee straws into thirty 3"-long
pieces. String straw pieces and wooden
beads on a wire and spray paint gold; let
dry and remove from wire.
Cut a 2-foot length of 24-gauge wire.
String three straw pieces onto the wire;
bend into a triangle (Diagram 1). Wrap
wire lengths together with one twist
together.
Note: If you run out of wire during this
project, cut another length and bind the
ends of the new and existing lengths
together with a wire wrap.
Referring to Diagram 2, feed the wire
back through the designated straw.
Referring to Diagram 3, string two
more straw pieces onto the wire and
bend into a second triangle. (Diagram 3).
Wrap wire lengths where the triangles
meet.
Designed by Jenny Kolenda
blueskyconfections.blogspot.com
YOU WILL NEED
• 18" piece 18-gauge floral stem wire
• 4"-diameter foam ball
• Foam glue
• Glitter: silver
• Plastic coffee straws
• 2—1"-diameter wooden beads
• 2—wooden beads of varying sizes
• Spray paint: gold
• 24-gauge floral wire
• Wire cutters
• Needle-nose pliers
• Wooden skewer
Push the piece of 18-gauge wire
through the center of the foam ball.
Leave the same amount of wire
extending at the top and bottom.
Thinly coat the foam ball with foam
glue. Evenly cover the foam ball with
silver glitter; let dry.
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Referring to diagrams 4–7, continue
feeding the wire back through a
designated straw, adding straw pieces,
and wrapping the wire at intersections
until you have five triangles, which forms
the ornament top section.
Note: Because the top section is the
base for the remaining triangles, mark
the top center point with a piece of tape
or string so you can keep track of it while
forming the rest of the ornament. In
diagrams 11–16, the top section is dark
gray.
Note: At this point your ornament will
start to take a three-dimensional shape
that can’t be shown in these diagrams.
Referring to diagrams 11–16,
continue feeding the wire back through a
designated straw, adding straw pieces,
and wrapping the wire at intersections
until you have 15 triangles, which forms
the ornament middle section.
Center the glittered foam ball in the
straw shape with one wire end at the top
center. To hold the ball in place, insert
a 1"-long wooden skewer piece into the
hole the wire made.
Referring to diagrams 17–20 (the
bottom of the middle section is dark
gray), continue feeding the wire back
through a designed straw, adding
straw pieces, and wrapping the wire
at intersections until you have five
triangles, which forms the ornament
bottom section. Cut loose wire pieces
and wrap wire to secure.
Add a 1" gold bead to the top center
wire. Add the remaining three gold
beads, largest to smallest, to the bottom
center wire. Bend the bottom wire
around the smallest bead and feed it
back through the other two beads. Bend
the top wire into a hook for hanging.
String two straw pieces onto the wire,
creating a triangle that mirrors a top
section triangle (Diagram 8).
String two more straw pieces
onto the wire, creating a triangle that
mirrors a second top section triangle
(Diagram 9).
Referring to Diagram 10, feed the
wire back through the designated straw.
Add one straw to connect the two
triangles formed in steps 8 and 9 and
create a third triangle.
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DIAGRAM 17
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Designed by Rachel Smith;
thecraftedlife.com
YOU WILL NEED
• ¼”-square mirror tiles
• 2"-diameter foam ball
• Crafts glue
• Crafts paint: green, brown, red, pink,
silver
• 2—3" aluminum jewelry wire pieces:
gold
Glue a row of mirror tiles around the
center of the foam ball; let dry. Using
the center row as a guide, add rows
of mirror tiles until the ball is covered,
except for a small opening at the top
for the wire ornament hanger.
Paint a green triangle on the mirror
tiles; let dry. (If you need help painting
straight lines, use painter’s tape to
outline a triangle shape.) Add a brown
rectangle for the trunk and red, pink,
and silver dots for ornaments.
Bend the doubled jewelry wire
pieces into a ½"-diameter loop. Twist
the wire ends together to make an
ornament hanger. Push the twisted
end into the top of the ornament.
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