For the New Year, you always want to have a brand new, elegant, beautiful Christmas tree. You won’t change a large indoor Christmas tree that often, but small tabletop Christmas trees that you can make yourself can be updated for each holiday season.
A very cute Christmas tree for the New Year celebration is made from pompoms. The technology is painstaking and requires some time and effort, but the result will please you.
Prepare the following for work: green and white yarn (you can use leftovers, even if the ball consists of pieces of thread), a template for winding threads for making pompoms, a 1.5 - 2 liter plastic bottle, glass marbles, Christmas tree beads, red satin ribbon, crochet hook, scissors, glue gun, construction knife.
The longest stage in creating a Christmas tree from pompoms is making the pompoms themselves. There should be quite a lot of them, the Christmas tree should be voluminous. We start by combining threads. Green-white melange can be made with either a predominance of white or a predominance of green threads. Depending on this, the Christmas tree will be either green or more snowy.
We wind the threads tightly onto the base template for the pompom.In our case, we chose a small notebook; it’s even easier to use a piece of thick cardboard. Then we tie the wound threads tightly in the middle. Then we cut the threads on one side and the other and fluff each pompom. For a small Christmas tree, approximately 25 cm in size, there should be an average of 25 - 30 pomonas.
We make the base for the Christmas tree from a plastic bottle, which should have a volume of at least 1.5 - 2 liters. The bottle must have a cap. We cut off the top part at a distance that will determine the height of the Christmas tree. To ensure that thin plastic holds its shape better, we carefully and evenly heat the edges of the cut on a flat surface, an iron, or the bottom of a heated frying pan. As a result, the edges are curled, forming a tight edge.
From any yarn that will match the overall color of the Christmas tree, we knit a stem. We start with a ring of 5 ch, which we tie further in a circle, evenly adding loops until it becomes the size of the bottom. Then we stop adding loops and knit in a circle, tying the bottle to the very top. Where it tapers towards the neck, we decrease the loops so that knitting It was a tight fit.
We collect the Christmas tree. Using hot glue, we place the pompoms on the trunk, close to each other, so that there is no empty space between them. The last tier is the top of the Christmas tree, two pom-poms that cover the bottle cap. Attaching pom-poms to a knitted base with hot glue is very durable.
All that remains is to dress up the fluffy beauty.
Attach Christmas tree beads. To make them sit more securely, we glue not only the beginning and end, but also several beads in the central part.
Satin bows will become a bright accent. We tie small bows from red ribbon and glue them to the fluffy sides of the Christmas tree.We also make the top of the head from a satin ribbon, tying a bow of any shape and gluing it to the top of the tree. If desired, the bow can be decorated with some other shiny little things.
Then it's up to the Christmas balls. This role will be played by glass marbles. Using hot glue, they are firmly attached to the threads of yarn, so you don’t have to worry about them coming off.
If you still have any “decorations” left, beads, buttons or large sequins for decoration, we also attach them with a drop of hot glue to the free places.
This is the final result of a beautiful Christmas tree with delicate fluffy legs and bright decorations.
