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Fabric covered styrofoam balls
Fabric covered styrofoam balls
>This year my big christmas project is making victorian-ish ornaments out
>of styrofoam balls, brocade, lace, beads, metallic trims, etc. Is anyone
>else doing this? I'd love to chat about it... If anyone want to start, I
>can post measurements for the pattern peices for different sizes of
>styrofoam balls.
>
>Here's what I do:
>I cut the fabric (easiest with a rotary cutter, if you have one). Usually
>I cover a ball in 4 sections, 2 with a patterned fabric, and 2 with a
>plainer one. Sometimes I make a patterned side by having a bottom layer of
>cheap craft satin, and then cover that with top layer of contrasting lace.
>I glue it all to the ball with lo-temp hot-glue (oxymoron?). Then I cover
>the ugly seams with ribbon and/or metallic trim. If the plain fabric side
>looks too plain, I use metallic lace, and make the curly side of it
>overlap lots of the plain fabric, or I stick a ribbon rose in the middle
>of the plain part. On the bottom I put a tassel (make of upholstery
>fringe), or a stack of interesting beads on a looong pin. Now I'm trying
>some make from that pretty embroidered ribbon that I always want to buy,
>but is too expensive for large projects...
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