I love anything repurposed so this is what I came up with today. Strips of a plaid skirt crocheted with a tiny snowflake pattern comes out big and bright!
Total Time: 1.5 Hours
Yield: 1
Source: The pattern was on Google. It was tiny, but now is big.
Supplies:
- 50 ft strips of fabric skirt
- 1 scissors
- hot glue gun
- 1 large button
- 1 size N (large new one) crochet hook
- 50 ft metallic elastic thread
Steps:
- With the strips glued together, cast on and chain 3. Make another 11 single crochets in the first chain (make this a little bigger than normal). Join and chain 3
- Make a double crochet in the next stitch. Chain 3 and repeat this another 5 times. Join and chain 1.
- Make 2 singles in the chain 3. Chain 5 and make another 2 singles in the same chain 3. Repeat this another 5 times. Join and cut off a 2" tail, working into the back.
- I found the chain five to be less pointy than I wanted so I cut 6 pieces of the thread about 3" each and used them to tie the chain fives at the base. You can see this better on the last shot.
- I took a coordinating color button and made it look like the golden thread was sewn in the holes. I just threaded them through doubled and did that twice in each direction, gluing it down in the back.
- With the hem of the skirt, I made a loop for hanging it. N-JOY!!
This came out about 8" wide so while it's a bit big for an ornament on a tree you could hot glue it to some wire and make it a tree topper!
