Crafts from balls of thread - beautiful and affordable

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

If you have an idea to decorate your house for the holiday, but do not have enough money for this, then crafts from balls of thread will allow you to do this without damaging the family budget. These decorations are very easy to make. Even a child can cope with such work, and the results of their own work will bring joy to the baby. In this article, we will learn how to make a ball of thread at home and use the craft in the interior.

Required materials and tools

• Balloons (if you need a small balloon, then fingertips purchased at the pharmacy are perfect for this).
• Threads (whatever you like - for knitting, sewing, embroidery, etc.).
• Scissors.
• Needle.
• PVA glue or stationery.
• Vaseline (if you don't have it, any fat cream and even vegetable oil will do).

Make balls of thread with your own hands: instructions

The very first step is to inflate the balloon torequired size. Tie the end with a thread, be sure to leave the tail longer. This is necessary in order to have something to hang the basis of our future crafts from balls of thread to dry. Then lubricate the ball over the entire surface with cream or petroleum jelly. If this is not done, then the threads will be very difficult to disconnect later. We impregnate the selected threads with glue. By the way, when using multi-colored balls of weaving, they will be very beautiful. With the help of an adhesive plaster or adhesive tape, we attach the tip of the thread soaked with glue to the balloon and begin to wrap the entire surface of the balloon with arbitrary movements. We do this as if we are winding a ball. The speed depends on the thickness of the thread: if it is thin, the density of the winding is greater, if it is thick (for knitting), it is less.

During operation, make sure that the thread is well saturated with glue. Keep it while winding the balloon without pulling too hard.

When the process of winding the threads is finished, leave one more long tip and tie it to the tail of the ball. Now it's the turn of drying the future crafts from balls of thread. It usually happens within 24-48 hours. It is necessary that the cocoon becomes completely solid. No need to hang blanks over heating devices to speed up the drying process. The rubber from which the balls are made can burst from hot air, and then all your efforts will be in vain. We recommend hanging them on a clothes dryer, fixing them with clothespins. After the glue becomes solid, the balls are removed. And how to do it right so that the balls fromthreads created with their own hands have not lost their shape and what methods of applying glue exist, you will find out by reading the article further.

Options for impregnating threads with glue

• If you have to work with PVA glue, then it must be diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio. Pour the glue into a suitable container and soak the threads in it for about 10 minutes. Avoid confusing them.
• Wrap the ball with dry thread and then carefully, using a brush or sponge, saturate the workpiece with glue.
• Using a hot needle, pierce the tube of glue so that the holes are opposite each other. Thread the thread into the needle and pull it through the resulting holes. Thus, it will be impregnated with glue. If you have glue in a large container, then you can pour it into a disposable plastic cup.

How to properly remove the ball from the blank?

• Untie the knot of the ball and let it gradually go down, then carefully remove it.
• Second method: using a simple pencil, at the end of which there is an eraser, peel off the ball from the thread frame and pierce it with a sharp object in several places. Taking out.

Now you know everything about how to make a ball of thread, and you can start decorating our crafts. Although in itself it looks original and can become an independent decoration of the house.

Aerial fantasy

A snowman made of threads and a ball will fit perfectly into the New Year's interior, but is donehe is very simple. Three blanks of white thread, made according to our description, are interconnected with glue. We glue the eyes, ready-made or made of paper, spout. It can also be made from red threads, only for this we wrap not balls, but paper rolled up with a cone. After it dries, remove and cut to the desired length. We sew. If you make a loop on the top of your head, then our snowman can be hung, for example, on a Christmas tree, if its size is small.

Stylish and original Christmas decorations, it turns out, you can make yourself without spending huge amounts of money on it. New Year's balls made of threads will become an exclusive decor for the forest beauty. Having made small thread balls, we decorate them at our discretion: with beads, various ribbons, sequins, beads, feathers - do not hold back your imagination, everything that is in the house will come in handy, even the well-known semolina. Yes, yes, if you moisten the ball with glue and dip it in this grits, you get the effect of frost.

Little tricks

I wanted to make crafts from balls of thread, but there was no glue in the house? Do not despair and do not postpone your desire for another day! It can be replaced with paste or sugar syrup. The paste is made like this: starch (4 teaspoons) is stirred in a glass of cold water and brought to a boil.

Need a red ball, but only white threads? It's not scary either: we take the paint and repaint, only this must be done before the balloon is deflated and removed from the base.

Toto add texture to your creation, coat the ball with glue and roll, for example, in millet or coffee beans.