DIY Christmas bells: how and what to do

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Now hand-made goods are becoming more and more popular. This applies to jewelry, souvenirs, and any accessories and gifts. Winter came? Getting ready for the upcoming holidays? Make your own Christmas bells. They look beautiful on the Christmas tree, on the wall, door and just anywhere in the interior. Made with love, things will be a great gift for friends, family and loved ones.

Interesting ideas

The following is a list of what a New Year's bell can be made of:

• beaded;
• thread;
• fabrics;
• paper;
• plastic cup.

Accordingly, different processing techniques are used:

• Weaving.
• Sewing.
• Knitting.
• Applique.
• Decoupage.
• Stained glass.
• Quilling.
• Silhouette cutout.

It is worth noting that the made souvenir can be either fully voluminous or embossed or flat. All decorations will take their rightful place on the Christmas tree or other place in the festive interior.

Materials and tools

If youdecided to make New Year's bells with their own hands in different techniques, then the set of necessary tools will need to be different. The list, organized by group, is shown below.

To sew a souvenir, prepare this:

• fabric;
• patterns;
• pins;
• chalk;
• scissors;
• thread with a needle;
• sewing machine.

For the decoupage technique you will need the following:

• Papier-mâché base or plastic cup.
• Primer (acrylic white).
• Sponge (sponge).
• Themed napkins, rice paper or decoupage cards.
• PVA.
• Brush.
• Acrylic paints for applying an additional pattern.
• Stencils (optional).
• Clear lacquer.

For beading, you only need to prepare:

• beads;
• fishing line or wire;
• thin needle.

To work with paper you need:

• pencil;
• designer decorative sheets;
• scissors;
• glue.

To tie a bell, just take a hook and yarn of the appropriate numbers. For quilling, in addition to the listed paper processing tools and the sheets themselves, you will need a cutter (it is more convenient for them to prepare even, identical strips) and a twisting device (special or improvised, such as a toothpick or a knitting needle).

Additional decor for everyoneways can be used the same:

• satin ribbons;
• bows;
• beads;
• sequins;
• tinsel;
• snowflakes, paper stars made with a figured hole punch.

Papier mache or plastic cup decoration

A New Year's toy (a bell or a whole garland of them) can be made using an existing base or from scratch. Most often, ordinary plastic disposable cups are used as blanks. They have a similar shape and are easily decorated in many ways.

If you don't have the required amount of plastic containers, you can use an alternative way - to make blanks from papier-mâché. The meaning of the work is that on the existing form (you will definitely find one cup or a purchased bell), small pieces of thin paper prepared in advance are glued in layers with preliminary drying of the previous layer. Ordinary office sheets, magazine and even newspaper sheets will do. For gluing, you can use PVA or prepared paste. The base should first be wrapped with cling film so that the made "shell" is easier to remove.

Sew a toy

Christmas bells with your own hands are easy to make from the remnants of fabric that every needlewoman has in her closet. The product can be double-sided and fully voluminous. For the first option, the pattern will be just a bell shape, in the second case, you will need several parts for the bottom, side surface andtops. Templates can be developed independently. The sewing process itself is not particularly difficult:

1. Details are stitched on the wrong side, leaving a hole for eversion.
2. After this operation is done directly.
3. The resulting form is filled with holofiber or other material.
4. The hole is sutured.
5. The souvenir is being decorated.

Christmas beaded bell

Such a souvenir can be both flat and voluminous. Usually do the second option. It looks much more impressive. Both openwork and continuous weaving are used.

The easiest option is done like this:

1. Make a triangle out of wire by first picking, for example, 12 beads, and only 2 in the last row (it all depends on the number of rows and, accordingly, the size of the bell).
2. Continue to work on the same wire further the same shape only in the opposite direction (mirror), starting with 2 beads and ending with 12.
3. Bend the resulting "bow" in half.
4. Weave the sides into one piece.

From several of these blanks, combined into a single whole, you get a more voluminous bell. Complex options, openwork and patterned, are woven in a circle using special patterns.

Crochet Christmas bells

Such products can be, as well as beaded, solid or openwork. The second look much more attractive. Knitting is done in a circle - from the topbell, where the tongue and pendant are attached, down.

The shape is obtained by evenly distributing additional loops and cuts around the ring. Openwork jewelry should be knitted according to a special pattern with careful counting of the loops of the pattern.

As you can see, there are many ways to make New Year's bells with your own hands. Even a child can cope with simple options. Complex, but beautiful, will require the help of an adult. In a word, there are opportunities for creativity for everyone: for those who love to sew, knit, weave from beads, do decoupage, stained glass or appliqués.