Showing posts with label Ribbon wind sock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ribbon wind sock. Show all posts

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Frozen inspired ribbon wind sock

My sister in law planted the seed of a ribbon wind sock in my head a few weeks back. I saw hers this weekend and the blues reminded me of Frozen dress/merchandise colours.
I wanted to make one! My original plan was for Lumpy to make a rainbow one to hang outside for her and 2.0. LThe frozen inspiration part made me decide to do it as a surprise.
Off to the shops I went searching for blues and silver or white ribbon. I looked for a single snowflake Christmas decoration, this was unsuccessful. Is found a back of 6 baubles that were white with silver snowflakes.
I went to a second hand shop and found a bell and some pretty Christmas decorations for 50cents for the lot!
I used - 
* Covered wire (I have also seen people use embroidery hoops)
* 3 lots of ribbon
* Binding 
* Decorations (had to be fairly light as the wire isn't the strongest)- optional
* A ring to hang the finished sock
* Hot glue gun
* something to hang the decorations - like fishing line
Supplies ready to go. I used 3 different ribbons - all blue but different width, colour and patterns/textures. i had a selection of decorations bug only used a couple.
I did two loops of wire, Covered with the binding for strength and glued into place.
I precut my ribbon to the length I wanted. Hot glued them on in single ribbons. You can also twist them on so it's two pieces together.
The ring to hang it from the ceiling
Bell. I didn't want anything too noisy.
Now to pick up Lumpy and see if she notices it hanging from her ceiling!!