Last
Saturday our local library invited me to do a mini program on
Christmas Ornament making. I had been making a bunch of Christmas
ornaments while watching nite time TV. After the program director
saw some of my designs, she asked me to share some of the techniques
I'd been practicing for Christmas ornament making.
I had a
box full of cloth scraps from loooooong ago, along with a bunch of
embroidery thread in lotsa colours. So's I came up with some designs
for Christmas ornaments, using cloth scraps, and threads covering
styrofoam balls.
A while
back I'd gotten interested in temari ball making.....a Japanese
needlework technique also using stryofoam balls and threads. Of
course, being me, a lotta colour was involved in the designs.....so I
was a happy camper. I'd made some ornaments using the traditional
Japanese methods.......
but
wanted to do some simpler ornaments using Christmas themed cloth and
coloured threads. These are the kind of ornaments we worked on at the
library program.
A few
lovely ladies joined me at the library on Saturday, and we had a ball
(pun intended!) covering stryofoam balls with with fabrics and
stitching red and green threads around the centers. We added some
hand made cording and hand made tassles and viola! We all had lovely
Christmas ornaments to start off the holiday season.
Thanks
so much to the Logan County Library for suggesting this event and all
the lovely folks who turned out to have a bit-o-holiday crafting fun
and share some laughs.
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