Paper weaving

December 5th

Last year I proofread a beautiful book all about paper weaving created by the very talented Charlotte

Woven animal heads Scandinavian style

Engle.  She had asked me to proofread it as her native tongue is Danish, she was worried that her English may not be up to the task to translate her work herself.  Without generalising too much, I do feel that the continent put us to shame in their command of other languages.  Charlotte need not have worried as her English only needed the very teeniest of tweaks in only one or two places.  And, in addition, the book and the makes were out of this world. 

With the Christmas holidays fast approaching, looking to perhaps keep the small ones occupied, who am I kidding, get down and make these yourself, they are so much fun! these Scandinavian woven ornaments would make a great activity.  All you need is paper or card, glue and scissors, a little patience and you have a whole lot of fun.  As children in Scandinavia both at school and at home we always used to make woven paper hearts (the Scandinavian equivalent of making paper chains in the classroom in the UK leading up to Christmas) and these by Charlotte are a modern take on that tradition.

Here you can find Charlotte's PDF for the mouse template and also a video demonstration on how to.

Woven mouse template

Woven mouse video demonstration

Below are a few snaps of my attempts.  these were whipped up fairly quickly, I had so much fun!

Charlotte suggested playing around with the eyes as that gives
each woven animal their own personality, I tend to agree
with her.  This mouse looks how I feel most days!

The beauty with the videos is you can
stop and pause whenever you need to

It's a tradition with the woven hearts to hand them on the Christmas
 tree with nuts or sweets, so I added some chocolates
to the deer and mouse.  All ready and waiting
for some small visitors over the festive season,
lovely little treat bags.

I've got my eye on making Charlotte's Elves next and she has also kindly linked a PDF and video tutorial here too:  Elves

Woven elves,
next on my list to make

Woven mouse

Woven deer

♥  Do you dabble in any form of paper crafting?  ♥