Mystcdra wrote:Wish I knew how to make things like that. What I do best is cook. That probably doesn't apply here.
@Wolfsister- You can be my seamstress and make my clothes any day! ♥♥
The thing I made is easy enough. You take a styrofoam ball and an asinine number of pins, and a large quantity of fabric squares that are 2in to a side.
First you establish where the "poles" are on your ball. You can pretty much arbitrarily do the first one but the other one has to be pretty near exactly opposite the first or you'll end up with wonky middles.
Then you take a fabric square and fold it in half hot-dog style.
Then you fold it again hamburger style.
Then you unfold the hamburger-style fold (that was just to establish where the halfway point of your rectangle was)
Then you take the corners of the rectangle and pull them so the folded edges meet in the middle and make a point
Then you take a pin and pin the point you made so that the fabric touches the established "pole" of your ball
Then pin the bottom of your fabric point down so it doesn't come un-folded
Do this four times at each pole; you should en up with a square with a lot of lines at either end
Then you do the next layer; repeat the folding steps, but this time instead of pinning it to the centerpoint, you're going to pick one of the seams on the square made in the first color and pin your new layer about 1/4 to 1/3 in away from the centerpoint along that line.
Just keep repeating these steps for the rest of the design; put the four "under" points on first, then the four "over" points (look at the brown fabric in the first picture to see what I mean by "over" and "under")
When you finish the second layer, you can do a third and fourth layer if you feel they're warranted. To finish it, run enough ribbon around the center so you can't see the crappy edges and ravelling threads (believe me, mine did not look that nice until I added the ribbon). Pin the ribbon in place, and then you can add smaller ribbon to hang it with and voila! ornament
