Chenille wire: from dirt to material for "fluffy" creativity

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

Many unusual materials are used in needlework. Sometimes they initially had some most primitive application, but over time they became materials for creativity. For example, chenille wire was originally invented as a tool for cleaning smoking pipes, and its "great-grandfather" was an ordinary chimney sweep ruff.

Should I make my own chenille wire?

Many craft materials can be made by hand, avoiding expensive purchases in craft stores. But can do-it-yourself chenille wire become a practical alternative to a purchased option? To answer this question, it is necessary to take a closer look at this interesting material for creativity. A fluffy caterpillar, which is how the word chenille (chenille) is translated from French, consists of two thin wires tightly twisted together, between them there are villi - a synthetic fiber that creates "fluffiness". Yes, if you set a goal, then at home you can twist the chenille wire. But will the time and material costs of such labor be justified? Most probably not. Even if you twist the wire on a special machine, on which craftsmen twisted chains for cheap jewelry at the end of the last century, it will not be as high-quality, fluffy and neat as bought in a specialized store, which means it is made in a fairly large quantity on special equipment. In addition, today chenille wire is a common material, you can buy it as much as you need, and in such colors as you can imagine.

Crafts with kids

Chenille wire is a good material for children's creativity. It is safe, pleasant to the touch, has bright colors, easily bends and straightens back if necessary, cut with scissors. Children can easily create almost any toy they want from such material, and adults will only have to suggest creative options.

Finger toys

Chenille wire due to its qualities is a versatile material for making toys - simple and primitive, but at the same time very, very cute. Even small children, with the help of adults, can learn some of the tricks of this skill using chenille wire. A master class on making finger toys will begin with the preparation of materials. Needed:

• Chenille wire of different colors.
• Large fluffy balls or plastic beads.
• Toy eyes, spouts.
• Universalglue.
• Scissors.

So, the child will make the toy himself, and the adult will only help. You need to wind the wire around your finger. Remove carefully. Draw a fluffy ball with eyes and a nose, if necessary, then glue a mustache, ears, which can also be made from a "caterpillar". When the glue dries, glue the ball-head onto the coiled spring. The finger toy is ready!

Waiting for the New Year

Very funny and easy to make Christmas crafts from chenille wire. From a fluffy "caterpillar" you can even make a mini-Christmas tree. After all, this is a universal material - chenille wire. The master class will show and tell you how, what and why:

• cut green wire like this: 3 long pieces - for winding the barrel and connecting parts, also, depending on the number of tiers, 3 segments of the same length, for example, 5 tiers, that means 3x5=15 segments;
• prepare a strong, poorly bending wire, you can use a four-wire electrical wire;
• thin pliers - pliers with thin ends - twist the wire;
• threads in tone - if you need to fasten the parts in place.

First, you should collect all the tiers - twist three identical segments together to make a six-pointed star.

Supplement each such "snowflake" with shoots-twigs, screwing them withthin-nosed pliers and fastening with threads to the knot. It should be remembered that all individual branches on each of the 6 rays of one tier should be the same length, decreasing from the center to the edge.

When all the snowflake tiers are ready, wrap the thick wire tightly with three pieces of chenille wire to make a trunk. At the height where the first tier of branches will be located, stop.

Now you should assemble the Christmas tree. Start from the bottom - the largest snowflake-tier, then smaller, smaller, ending the Christmas tree with the crown of a 4-radiated tiny star. Tiers should be attached using three segments that form the trunk. With them, the tier is tightly pressed to the base, then the wires are twisted again for a certain distance, and the next tier is attached.

Thus, the Christmas tree grows. You can stick fluffy balls on it, bought specially or also twisted from the "caterpillar", hang "candy canes" made from two pieces of chenille wire - red and white, make beads for the Christmas tree from beads. Happy New Year!

Summer is coming

But chenille wire, although it is fluffy and warm to the touch, is not necessarily only winter crafts. From it you can make a huge number of summer toys. While the flowers have not yet bloomed, you can make a cute bouquet for the window - from a multi-coloredwire twist the flowers, securing the petals with a large bead, into which the stalk is also fixed. Flowers set in a peat pot, painted and filled with sisal.

With the help of a fluffy "caterpillar" you can make funny decorative toys - butterflies, caterpillars, spiders will help revive everyday life.

Chenille wire is a grateful material. He pliantly responds to any manipulations even of a small child, who can create interesting toys with the help of a couple of pieces of a fluffy "caterpillar", helping to decorate the world.