Mobile "Butterflies" will be an excellent decoration for the interior of a children's room, balcony, porch or banquet hall. Embossed butterflies, light, soaring and moving from the slightest breath of air, will make the room even more comfortable and create a relaxing environment. Such an elegant and delicate decoration will be interesting to craft with a child or make a gift for a loved one. The process of making it is very creative and many new ideas for creativity may arise in its process.
We will prepare everything that we may need to make a mobile:
• tape 2.5 cm wide - about 7 m;
• tape 1 cm wide - about 7 m;
• white pearl beads;
• transparent beads 0.5 cm;
• needle;
• threads to tone ribbons;
• a candle for processing the edges of the tape;
• scissors;
• ruler;
• pencil;
• template for butterfly;
• white cardboard with embossed;
• cotton yarn in tone ribbons;
• a circle made of plastic with a diameter of about 24 cm.
We draw the contours of butterflies on cardboard and cut them out. We will need 40 butterflies.
For mobile pendants we cut 8 threads of cotton yarn 80 cm long each. We put 6 beads and one bead on the thread (beads will be necessary to fix the last bead.
We tie butterflies from cardboard (5 pcs. For each thread). We extend the beads so that between the two butterflies there is 1 bead. One end of the pendant remains free, and the other is decorated with a bead fixed with beads (we hide the knot and cut the tip of the thread).
We cut 8 pieces of 30 cm from a 2.5 cm wide tape. 12 pieces of 30 cm from a 1 cm wide tape.
The edges of the ribbons are combined and slightly melted on a candle flame. With a quick movement of the fingers we press them while they are still hot so that they stick together.
These are the blanks for making flowers from ribbons.
Lay a basting seam along the edge of the workpiece (stitches should be about 0.3 mm).
We begin to tighten the workpiece - we pull both ends of the thread. We collect the ribbon into a flower and straighten its edges.
We tie the edges of the threads with a strong double knot so that the flower does not bloom (we do not remove the needle from the thread). We do this with all the blanks - we get 8 large and 10 small flowers.
We draw the needle onto the front side of the flower and embroider the middle with beads and beads (we embroider small flowers with beads and large flowers with beads and beads). We bring the needle to the wrong side and fix the thread.
We wrap the plastic circle with a tape 1 cm wide. Gently sew the edge of the tape and cut the tip of the thread.
From the tape 1 cm wide, cut off 2 segments for mobile suspensions of 65-75 cm. We process the edges of the ribbons with a candle flame. Sew the ribbons crosswise to the circle wrapped with ribbon. Sew to each end of the suspension with several inconspicuous stitches on a small flower in such a way as to hide the seams.
Cross stitch with a suspension we sew with inconspicuous stitches.
On the suspensions, in the place where they are attached to the circle, we sew large flowers with several inconspicuous stitches.
We sew flowers symmetrically along the entire length of the circle.
Such a mobile phone can be hung under a chandelier or decorated with a cornice. Having shown your imagination, you can come up with other models and use other materials: replace butterflies with flowers from ribbons or dragonflies, circle with beads or beads, etc. Such mobile phones can become a worthy decoration for the interior of a room, office or banquet hall.
