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The New Year holidays are just around the corner. It's time to think about decorating your home or classroom, and prepare gifts for loved ones. A Christmas tree and balls are irreplaceable attributes of the New Year. The master class on making New Year's crafts from threads is quite simple, so both adults and children can handle it.

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Balls of thread - master class

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Let's start with the simplest crafts - balls of thread. They are airy, light, do not break, and their size depends only on your desire!

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To make these balls you will need:

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• “office” silicate glue or PVA glue
• long needle,
• threads of different colors
• and various little things for decoration (beads, rhinestones, foil, rain, bells, etc.)

Inflate the balloon to the desired size. We thread the thread into the needle and pierce the bottle of glue with it, now the thread will pass through it and immediately become saturated with glue. We begin to wrap the ball with adhesive thread. Then you will have to wash your hands, because all your fingers will be covered in this “liquid glass”.

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You can do it differently. Wind the threads around the ball, turn by turn, and then, on top, coat the threads with glue.

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When the glue dries, pierce or gently deflate the ball and take it out. Then we decorate according to our own wishes. We filled this ball with shiny “rain” (it will be better visible if we make the ball more transparent), glued stars and foil flowers on top, and tied a mini bell at the bottom.

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Christmas tree made of threads - master class

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For work you will need the following materials:

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• floss or knitting threads (thick ones are easier and faster to work with),
• cling film,
• whatman paper A1,
• glue,
• brush,
• scissors,
• ruler,
• compass,
• pencil.
• Ribbons, tinsel, toys, sparkles, etc. are suitable for decoration.

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Take whatman paper, measure a distance of 48 cm, divide it in half. Place a compass in the resulting center and draw a circle. Cut it out by first marking four equal parts on it using a ruler.

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Cut one piece out of the mold. If you want the future tree to be narrower, then cut off two parts, leaving half a circle.

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Make a cone by rolling the resulting craft blank. Apply glue to the joint to keep the shape in place.

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Take cling film and wrap the cone.

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Dilute the glue with water. Dip the threads into the resulting solution, wet them and randomly wrap them around the cone. You can wear disposable gloves to protect your hands from the glue. The Christmas tree does not have to be green, so the threads are suitable for absolutely any color and any thickness.

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Wind threads moistened with glue until the tree becomes dense enough. If there are few threads, then the craft will not be able to take a stable shape.

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Leave the Christmas tree for a while to dry and become stable. After a few hours, carefully pull out the cone and peel the film off the threads. The Christmas tree is ready!

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You can place an LED candle or a New Year's garland inside the finished Christmas tree, and your home will be decorated with fancy openwork shadows.

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If desired, the craft can be decorated. Glue tinsel or toys on top, sprinkle with sparkles. It's easy to make bows from ribbons.

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In addition, in addition to balls and Christmas trees, using the same principle you can make, for example, an angel from threads and glue.

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For the head, a very small ball is inflated (these are made from scraps of burst balloons, for example:)), which is pulled out after the threads dry.

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But for the body, we took a transparent plastic plate (we peeled it off from the box with the toy), rolled it into a cone, and stapled it in two places. Having started to wrap threads around the body, we realized that they would only hold on if we wrapped them on all sides (and not just on top, as we planned), meaning that it would be impossible to pull out the cone later. But in principle, this is not necessary, because it is transparent. The angel's wings were cut out of foil.

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But we made such a snowman out of threads for a competition in kindergarten.

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For the hat, they wrapped a measuring cup of medicine, and after the threads had dried, they pulled it out, cutting off the bottom of the threads from the bottom. For the “carrot” we also wrapped a small cone of film. The stand is a lid from a coffee can. This is how the translucent snowman turned out:

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Go ahead and create from threads whatever your imagination inspires!

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Good afternoon - today we will make balls from threads... such openwork cobweb balls that can be hung as Christmas tree decorations... or use as LAMP and LAMPSHAD...or you can make cocoons from such thread balls New Year's GARLAND... And such balls of thread can also be even candlesticks or other home decor elements.

You have seen such balls many times... But in THIS ARTICLE... I will show you COMPLEX versions of this technique.

So let's start in order...

1. First I'll show you WHAT'S POSSIBLE MAKE from such balls…
2. And then I'll tell you HOW TO DO IT such a ball of thread with your own hands.

What can be done

using BALLS FROM THREAD.

IDEA 1 – New Year's tree.

You can decorate a New Year's table with these balls... if find the frame. THE FRAMEWORK WILL BE splayed tree branch... we wrap such a branch with an LED Christmas tree garland and hang balls of thread on the branches.

IDEA 2 – Table compositions with fresh flowers.

You can wear these openwork spider web balls... TO THE TOP arrange small vases. By the way, the vases can be the same small ones transparent (or white) balls(similar to non-condoms) into which we take a little water... drop the flower heads into them... and we tie the neck of such a ball to the top of the ball... This is what we see in the photo below.

The result is a composition of balls of thread with flowers, which can be used to decorate a wedding... or a New Year's table

Or you can put these balls in a slide in a flat vase... Pour water onto the bottom of the vase... and push the stems of tall, not heavy flowers (for example, gerberas) THROUGH THE BALLS - the balls will keep the flower stems in balance.

And it’s important - if you are planning such a composition with water... then it’s better to roll up such a ball of thread NOT from simple threads... but from metal ones- that is, made of wire. Because a regular ball of thread will get wet and lose its shape.

IDEA 3 – threads of balloons in HANGING COMPOSITIONS for holiday decoration.

You can attach such balls to a CHANDELIER - just over the dinner ball... and lower them nicely so that the balls are at different heights. And it is better to use balls not of the same color - but of two shades that combine in composition. Red + white, Green + blue, Gold + brown, etc.

Balls of the same thread color also look beautiful... but DIFFERENT SIZES... and DIFFERENT DENSITY thread openwork.

That is, we will need to inflate balls of different sizes... and when we wind our thread, soaked in glue, onto one ball bigger and THICKER... and on the other ball less and less often(so that the holes remain).

Such a white composition is perfect for decorating a wedding - if the wedding is planned in the yard, that is, in nature - then such voluminous balls can be mounted on a tree branch.

IDEA 4 – BALLS made of threads as table and ceiling lamps.

You can make cocoon balls from such thread balls table lamps if you carefully insert a chain of incandescent light bulbs into the balls...

You can make one lamp - with one light bulb socket. In the photo below we see an example of such a lamp made from a spider web ball. Light socket stand made from regular ICE CREAM STICKS.

You can take this chuck holder idea... or you can just buy a ready-made stand with lamp socket at a craft store... or buy a cheap lamp with a shade and remove the shade from it... and somehow decorate the stand so that it doesn’t look like cheap China (for example, cover it with napkins using the decoupage technique... or cover it with a mosaic of glass pebbles).

Balls made of threads - can be used as hanging lamps for ceiling lamp. In the interior, both one lampshade and a whole series of multi-colored lamps look beautiful (reminiscent of a Japanese-style interior).

This is how beautiful a lampshade like this can look in the interior of a room. Bedrooms...children's...hallway.

Light bulb sockets are sold together with a cord... Or you can buy everything separately and install it with the hands of a familiar electrician.

IDEA 5 – New Year’s garland made from an LED chain and balls of thread.

You can also buy the most a regular garland with small LEDs– and make thread balls of different sizes and colors. We insert LEDs into such balls - so that they stick and do not jump out of the balls, it is better to secure them with tape or thread.

Such a garland can consist of airy cocoon balls made of thin wire (as in the photo below). The shine of the wire will additionally reflect and refract the light from the LEDs.

Or the garland can be made of THREAD balls - then the light of such a garland will be calm and softly diffused (as in the photo below).

These are the beautiful sparkling highlights we get on the wall from such a garland.

Can be done ONE LARGE round nito cocoon ball to - and stretch a garland into it in a chaotic manner (so that the light bulbs are evenly distributed over the entire surface of the ball) - we get a beautiful ball-lamp sparkling with several lights at once (left photo below)

Or you can do decorative GARLAND SCREEN made of thread balls and shiny glass pendants... (as in the right photo below). The result is a very beautiful and delicate screen-curtain - thanks to the fact that the openwork and airy balls of the screen do not look bulky and the glass beads dilute and decorate the flowing surface of the curtain.

IDEA 6 – SNOWMAN made of balls wrapped in thread.

You can also make a craft with your children to decorate the New Year - a snowman made from balls of thread. You need to make three balls of different sizes (plus you can also make small balls on your hands).

IDEA 6 – CANDLESTICKS made of balls wrapped in thread.

Candle balls needed make it bigger– so that the candle flame is away from the walls and top of the ball. And the ball itself must have LARGE HOLES (i.e. NOT TIGHT winding) - through these holes the heat of the candle will immediately evaporate... and the threads will not heat up.

Candlesticks from threads can be made hanging (pictured below)…

And there may be floor (or table)) – like here in the photo below. The bottom example illustrates what happens if the ball is made larger. Then you can make the cells between the threads smaller. And then, in order to put a candle there, you will need to cut through the web ball with scissors hole on the side... or the hole may be at the bottom(that is, we cut out the bottom... put a candle on the floor and cover it with a ball on top of the part where the hole is in the bottom).

By the way, instead of a candle, you can use a solar-powered garden lantern.

IDEA 7 – balls made of thread for the New Year tree.

These balls are also good to hang on a Christmas tree. It is better to make New Year's balls from small balloons. (that is, you need to buy small balls (these are used to make garlands for weddings) such balls are sold in departments of hypermarkets, where there is a shelf with decorations for children's birthdays.

Also the thread itself immediately after wrapping the ball - while it is still wet and sticky from glue - sprinkle with glitter. You can get glitter for free if you trim the fluffy Christmas tree garland finely.

HOW TO MAKE BALLS FROM THREAD –

three convenient ways.

ESSENCE OF THE WORK to create a ball of thread it looks like this... We wrap a small balloon with thread soaked in glue... And when the glue cocoon of thread dries, we burst the ball, take out its fragments from the cocoon, and get an openwork ball of thread.

Adhesive solutions can be different:

• You can dilute WALLPAPER glue (paste based on starch)... or dilute and cook the starch with water yourself.

• You can use SILICATE glue (Soviet transparent for paper)

• You can use PVA GLUE in its pure form... or in a diluted form - then add water and sugar to it.

And the ways in which the work is done can be different:

METHOD ONE – through the bottle.

For convenience, it is recommended to thread the thread into a needle... use the needle to pierce the bottle with silicone glue through (enlarge it, pick out the hole so that the thread passes freely through the bottle)... This way we get a “mini-device” for wetting the thread with glue without dirtying the table.

METHOD TWO– put a skein of thread in a bowl of glue – as in the left photo below... if you don’t want to spoil the whole ball (because it’s too big) – then you can pass the thread through the bowl of glue by hand (as in the right photo)

WITH WHAT TENSION TO WIND THE THREAD.

The thread on the ball should not be wound very tightly - so that the ball does not get pulled together and is not compressed by the thread. Otherwise we will receive a crooked product.

HOW TO REMOVE THE BALL CORRECTLY.

It is best to dry the glue ball for 2-3 days. So that it hardens properly. If you start removing the ball before it has completely dried, you may end up with a wrinkled product.

Before bursting the ball, you need to make sure that it easily moves away from the walls of the thread cocoon. To do this, you can use the blunt end of a pencil to gently press on the ball THROUGH THE HOLES BETWEEN THE THREADS - in different sides of the ball - push the ball with a pencil so that it comes off everywhere from the walls of the cocoon.

After this, we burst the ball and pull out the burst rag by the tail.

AND ALSO... you can add a cocoon-web LACE.

But this technique can be supplemented with elements knitted applique from the same threads... For example, you can make a piece of a knitted pattern in advance (as in the photo below) ...

To do this, first crochet pattern element(this can be a pattern for any crocheted napkin)… a small element, only the first few rows of the pattern… Glue this lace knitted circle to the surface of the ball. Let's dry...

Then we shave the end of the glue thread - and thread it into a NEEDLE. And with such a thread and needle we begin to carefully (so as not to pierce) wrap the ball, and pick up (as we wind) the edges of the lace applique... and we get a cocoon into which a crocheted lace detail is sewn. Like in the photo below.

Or you can do it differently - IT’S EVEN EASIER TO DO

• wrap the ball with threads... dry...
• WITHOUT removing the balloon with scissors, cut a round hole (the size of your knitted applique) and apply glue to this head area on the balloon...
• soak the knitted applique with glue and attach it to the ball (so that its edges touch the edges of the web). When all this is dry you can remove the ball.

Openwork BALLS made of wire.

Using the same principle, ball-windings are made from wire. You just need to do it carefully so that the end of the wire does not cut into the ball and so that the wire itself does not cut the ball..

Here are some ideas on how to make a ball of thread yourself. As you can see, everything is quick and simple. Even a child can easily master the whole process.

Happy crafting!

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You can easily make original stylish New Year's balls with your own hands. A New Year's ball made of threads looks very attractive, it does not require special skills or money, the use of these web balls is limitless, wherever your imagination allows.
You can decorate a Christmas tree with balls of thread and create festive interior decor. They can also become an original holiday gift.

You will need:

• Inflatable ball
• Petrolatum
• Colored threads, the thicker the better
• PVA glue
• Scissors

Inflate the balloon to the desired size. Lubricate the ball with Vaseline to make it easier to detach it from the glued threads.

Mix PVA glue with water. Dip the threads into this mixture.
Wrap the ball with thread. Or we pierce the jar of glue with a thick needle on both sides. We thread the thread straight from the skein into the holes without cutting. Slowly pulling the thread through the jar, wrap it around the ball. She herself is wetted in glue.

The more layers of thread, the stronger the ball will be, but if you wind too much, it loses its airiness and transparency.

Leave to dry for 1 day.

When the balloons are dry, carefully deflate the balloons. If done carefully, they can be used several times.

You can decorate the resulting web balls using beads, beads, feathers, and ribbons. You can create a snow effect: moisten the ball with glue and dip it in semolina or powdered sugar. You can use threads of different colors, then you get a very beautiful weave.
If you are unable to wind glue-soaked thread onto a ball, you can wind dry thread and then thoroughly soak it in glue using a brush or sponge.

New Year is a time of gifts, guests and fun. One of the most enjoyable moments before the holiday is decorating the Christmas tree, which is almost impossible to imagine without traditional balls. Have you tried making a Christmas ball with your own hands from any scrap materials yet? For example, regular threads are perfect for this. The ball will turn out openwork, airy, delicate and elegant. It is sure to impress all your guests.

The basis for this craft will be an inflatable children's round ball. And the process of making it is extremely simple and accessible even to a child.

To work you will need:

First, inflate the balloon to the desired size of the future balloon. We tie the lower end of the ball tightly with thread so that it does not unravel. We take knitting threads and begin to wrap the inflated ball. You can use your imagination and experiment with color combinations of threads, combining different shades.

This can be done in two ways:

pour glue into a cup and soak the threads with a foam sponge;

make a hole in a jar of glue and pull the thread through it before you wrap it around the ball.

When wrapping the ball, the thread will immediately become saturated with glue through the jar. After impregnation with glue, the ball should be removed to dry for about a day. The time it takes to dry depends on the density and quality of the yarn.

When the surface of the ball is completely dry, you can safely proceed to the next step. Take a sewing needle and carefully pierce the balloon in several places. It will deflate before your eyes very quickly. As soon as the ball is deflated, it is necessary to remove it from the workpiece, dragging it between the threads hardened by the glue.

Let's start with the design. To do this, we take beads and string them on a needle and thread, thereby getting a pendant like this.

We make two of these pendants. The next decorative element is a satin ribbon bow. We do everything elementary and by eye. Take a satin ribbon and tie an ordinary bow.

Cut a rectangle from a piece of mesh and assemble it in the middle. It turns out to be another mini-bow, which we sew manually behind the blank made from ribbon. In the center of the double bow we sew a large matching bead, but you can, in principle, do without it.

We attach the finished bow to the ball using glue or thread with a needle. We also sew bead pendants to the ball, placing them in height with a difference of about 2-3 cm relative to each other.

The final touch is the main pendant, with which the ball can be hung on the holiday tree. We will make it from braid approximately 15-20 cm long. You can simply tie the braid into a small knot or sweep away its ends with a needle and thread. All that remains is to find this cute ball a worthy place in the decoration of the Christmas tree or in the New Year's decoration of your home.

You can arrange a composition of several balls of different sizes and colors - for example, put them in a huge decorative vase. Complete the composition with fir branches or artificial flowers. The main thing is to “turn on” your imagination, and your balls will be the most exclusive.

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Author's photos of Anna Bykova were used in the design of the master class. Copying is prohibited!

I am a decorative designer and sometimes I get interesting orders. This time, when decorating the wedding, the bride wanted to decorate the ceiling of the hall with thread balls.

For people like me, fans of the Pinterest service, there is a special article about Pinterest fails - like it can be beautiful on the Internet in pictures and then the user is faced with reality:

In our case this was true.
The first photo is Pinterest, the second is reality :)

And a little more reality:


That is, before the first perfect ball, we had 4 attempts to choose the glue, application method, and type of winding.

So I propose a proven system:

1) It is most convenient to take round balls with an elastic band at the end. They are sold in any children's stores or in the holiday sections of supermarkets. All balls are reusable. It's a matter of saving. If you are making only one balloon, you can simply use a bare balloon and then deflate or pop it.

In our case, we needed to make 30 balls, so I bought 7 bases and had a cycle of 7 pieces.


2) Each ball is wrapped in cling film to prevent the rubber from drying out from glue, etc.
We tie the end that is inflated with a thread and also wrap it tightly with film, so as not to eat the glue later, we leave open only the back pipe, which we will hold.

Lubricate the film over the ball with sunflower oil or Johnson's baby oil. Why do this?

In fact, even if you don’t smear, the ball will still come away from the film, but when you wind the threads, they leave stripes of glue on the cellophane. If you leave it as is, the glue dries like a film between the threads and it needs to be cut out (see photo of the blue ball at the beginning of the post). If there is oil, then it seems to roll off and remain on the film as just balls.


3) Glue!!!
Glue should be used PVA grade M (furniture). That is, ordinary office glue is not suitable (PVA-K), it does not hold at all. Glue should be purchased at the rate of 1 liter for 7-10 balls with a diameter of 30 cm. It took me about 3 liters for 32 balls.
PVA glue should not be taken as an emulsion, although it is more expensive, it dries like epoxy, surrounding each thread with a transparent cocoon, but simply construction PVA for wood, etc.

The successful glue in the photo with a pink label, it was bought at Leroy-Merlin for 23 UAH - 1 liter.

We prepare the glue in portions, adding water and starch to make the ball harder. I cooked in a container about 300 ml - a couple of tablespoons of starch and 20-30 ml of water so that the starch was kneaded. Make the solution by eye - the glue should not end up much more liquid than before dilution.

THREAD!!
As it turned out, the question is not fundamental. I took large acrylic yarn, 300 meters per 100 grams, the blue one is natural cotton-bamboo. Both natural and artificial threads adhered well, provided they were well impregnated.

4) Master classes usually involve two people - one person soaks the threads in a bowl (puts glue into the threads), and the second one winds them.
We didn't do it that way, but made a system out of a bottle. We made two holes in a half-liter bottle - at the bottom and in the cork. The thread was threaded into a dry bottle with a needle from bottom to top. The hole was made according to the size of the thread so that it fits tightly, then the glue does not spill out back. You can make the hole in the cork a little wider so that all the glue does not wring out and the thread comes out wet.
So, when each thread passed through the entire length of the bottle from bottom to top and, being savored, was pressed out a little at the exit, no assistant was needed. If the thread ran out, then I made a knot in advance before entering the bottle and connected them.

5) The work is dirty, I did everything on the balcony. She laid oilcloth on the floor and put on a raincoat, but backwards. She shook the bottle with her feet and shook it.

First you make a circle around the ball and tie it in a knot, then wind it randomly.

It’s convenient to wind if you pull a long piece (one and a half to two meters) of glue out of the bottle and twist it around the ball, distributing the threads. Then pull out the next one. Small pieces are less neat.

6) The balls were dried on the balcony. It was hot, so they dried in about half a day. I shook early in the morning and in the evening - at night.




7) When they were completely dry, I found an inflator, untied it and deflated. The film and ball were taken out from a large sector nearby.


8) Gradually a hill like this grew up.

We used balloons to decorate the ceiling at a wedding, photo report here.