A
while back over on my Facebook group I asked for some ideas for
future tutorials. One of the ideas that a lot of people were really
passionate about was that they wanted me to show how to make a
Christmas tree and then how to decorate it. So we are beginning that
set of tutorial now. I know it isn't even Halloween yet but I wanted
to give everyone plenty of time to get their trees completed before
the holiday season.
I
am showing you how to use simple easy to find materials to create a
tree, all you need are some green chenille stems, a wooden wheel, a
short piece of ¼” dowel, some glue and some green paint. Oh, and
something to measure with.
The
most time consuming part of this project really is the cutting of the
pieces of chenille stem. You need a lot of them.
Here
is the cutting list:
1
piece of ¼” dowel cut 5 ½” long
Chenille
stems
for
the branches:
15
cut 6”
20
cut 5”
10
cut 4”
5
cut 3”
Then
for the tips:
90
cut 2 ½”
10
cut 1 ½”
I
had planned to show the entire process of getting the tree base
assembled but there was an issue with my bottle of paint. Well, it
was more like an explosion of paint. By the time I had that cleaned
up I had managed to cut my finger a bleed all over everything in
addition to having paint all over. So I felt it was best to just skip
that portion of the process and bring you on in at a point when
things were more under control.
You
could probably get by without painting the tree base but I find it is
just so much easier to hide it if it is painted green. The shade of
green doesn't matter just any green that is handy.
There
is really no trick to doing this project other than to keep the
branches going in in a random fashion. You don't want them lined up
that makes for holes in the look of the tree.
So
what if you want a different shape of tree? This project is really
adaptable, you make it taller, you could make it shorter. You will
just need to play around with the lengths of the branch pieces.
I
have seen this same type of tree done in metallic chenille stems and
they are gorgeous.
So
put your thinking cap on and play around with the project. If you
make one of these trees be sure to show me a picture I would love to
see how yours turns out.
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