Make a Ribbon Candy Twist Ornament
Wow family and friends with these handcrafted retro ribbon candy styled ornaments.
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What You Need
- Spray adhesive
- Wide, medium, and narrow ribbon
- Water-soluble marking pen
- Long-eye beading needle
- White embroidery floss
- Eleven 10-mm-round pearls
How to Make It
- Glue the medium-width ribbon to the center of the wide ribbon.
- Trim the length to measure 16 1/2 inches.
- Using the pen and a ruler, mark dots down the center of the ribbon at 1-1/2-inch intervals on both sides of the ribbon.
- Thread the beading needle with an 18-inch length of embroidery floss.
- Slip a pearl onto the floss.
- Carefully remove the needle, and then rethread it with both ends of the floss. The ends of the floss should be even.
- Push the needle from one side of the ribbon through the other side at the first mark (the first pearl is now at the bottom of the ornament); add a pearl.
- Push the needle from the one side of the ribbon through to the other side at the second mark; add a pearl.
- Continue until you have 11 pearls on the string.
- To finish, secure the thread and attach a hanging ribbon.
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I think the pattern should read .....until you have 11 folds not 11 pearls?
11/4/2009 12:54:30 PM Report AbuseThis is a great craft for my daughter's girl scout troup to do. Thanks!
11/2/2009 11:26:11 AM Report Abuse