Eclectic Home and Life: Christmas Stars

December 20th

Red spells Christmas to me
but then I am traditional.
These yarn stars would look
fabulous in any colour

I'm a sucker for a quick make and result and especially if I have the material already in the house. And I'm a sucker too for online video tutorials both for inspiration and ideas and quick self-teaching techniques. Have you ever learnt from watching a youtube video? It is true you often have to sift through several truly badly filmed and complicated rubbish to land on 'the one' that will help you but I still find it a worthwhile exercise. And this is how I landed upon today's Christmas make. These stars would make excellent crafting sessions with children and I plan on roping in both the small ones and the teenagers over the Christmas holidays to make an entire constellation.

The link at the bottom of this post includes a free template
or this star, I transferred it onto the back of an old do not bend envelope

The video shows you how to attach beads to the points
but as I only had pom pom ribbon, I used that instead

Tape the beginning of your yarn onto the centre of the star

Begin winding the yarn around the base of two of the points of the star

Once you have wound up to where the two points separate
move across to the next two, do not cut the yarn just continue winding

Continue winding each section, on the back, there will be a bit of
crisscrossing and not quite so nat at this stage, but that can be sorted at the end

When all base star point s are covered in yarn, I began to wind up
the star point to the tip and then back down again towards the body
of the star, thus creating a very padded a full star.

As you near the end of covering the entire star in yarn, try to be a bit
more careful with the back of it and wind it so that both sides
look as neat as possible. Hang up and admire!