Handmade crafts from thread - interesting and useful master classes, DIY tips and beautiful photo ideas

Wool Watercolor

The loosened thin strands of wool yarn can be "painted" as if they were watercolors. The different colors of the yarn remnants create delicate color transitions in the thread picture, and unsuccessful "strokes" can always be corrected. In this way of working with wool, you don't need need needles, but will need scissors to cut the threads into small sections, tweezers for convenience and a base on which the image will be created.

You can think up the plot yourself or use an idea from the Internet. Transfer the pattern or stencil on heavy cardboard or thin plywood. Color in parts of the picture with colored pencils and lay out step by step sections of thread of appropriate color on a surface lubricated with PVA glue.

The denser the thread layer, the more colorful and vivid the image will be. Compositions with complex color transitions imitate watercolors. Each piece made with this method is unique. Framed with a frame, the craft created can become a wall decoration in any room.

Creating toys in different ways

Knitted toys

Very cute and touching toys can be knitted from yarn remnants. These can be dogs and kittens, bears and horses, frogs, bunnies and many other representatives of fauna, connected by needles or crochet. With these characters can create a toy farm or zoo.

A favorite craft for every little girl will be a crocheted doll. The mistress is sure to carry a favorite in her crib, will talk to her and feed her. The head of the doll can, like the body, to knit or make from soft felt. Beads, small buttons or ready-made items purchased in specialty stores can serve as eyes for the characters.

Noses and ears can be made of dense fabric of a close shade. All parts of the body can be knitted from the same color or use different shades of yarn.

Pom-pom animals

Fluffy and miniature souvenirs-toys are made of one, two or more pompoms connected to each other. To create interesting crafts you will need:

• leftover threads of different colors
• needle kit
• Moment glue or a glue gun
• scissors
• dense cardboard.

To create a fluffy pom-pom from heavy cardboard, you need to cut two identical figures in the form of a bagel (one circle of larger diameter, and inside a small one, which is a hole). Folded two patterns to wrap threads, putting them through the hole. To make a fluffy and voluminous pompon, you need to wind the thread as much as possible.

Carefully cut along the edge of the large circles, and gather the inner circle with strong threads in one knot. To the resulting fluffy ball glue or sew on the additional details: ears, tail, eyes, beak or nose. The pom-pom can become a hedgehog, a chicken, a gnome.

Connecting two pom-poms of white yarn can create a snowman or a funny cheerful animal. Make paws and tails from yarn or felt, glue eyes, ears and nose. Chain of several pompoms will be the original caterpillar.

Entertaining kind of needlework will arouse children's interest and develop their creative imagination. Creating a craft with his mother, the child will remember the event for a long time and will treasure the creation created with their own hands.

Numerous photos of thread crafts and master classes on the Internet will give a lot of ideas. Creating toys is consonant with a sense of kindness and beauty. Each handmade toy seems to be a special light. Creating a handicraft will not take much time, but the process will seem fascinating, will take you into the world of childhood and give you a lot of happy and unforgettable moments.

Working with thread and yarn, there are no problems and difficulties - the soft material is perfect even for the novice craftsman. Despite the wide range of choice of toys, handmade crafts will be more expensive and more charming, because a part of the soul is invested in it!

Original decor

From thread, you can create interesting elements of decor for the home or decoration of the halls for the holidays. Thread balloon will perform the role of an unusual lamp or lampshade. To make it, you will need a balloon, threads of one or more colors, and PVA glue. To create an original light fixture you need to:

• inflate a balloon of the desired size
• pour PVA glue into a plastic container
• punch holes with a needle from two opposite sides of the container
• use a needle to pull a thread through the holes, so that the thread sinks into the glue
• put a rubber glove on the right hand and wind the glue thread around the ball in a chaotic manner.

You will need less thread for a translucent light fixture. For a tighter coverage with no gaps, you will need more thread of one or more colors. When the blank is well dried, pierce the balloon with a needle and remove it through the hole. For festive decorations, fill the thread balloon with chopped foil or confetti.

Such original decorations do not have to be a lampshade for glowing objects, but also an independent design element. From the set of such small balls you can make a hanging garland, and from two or three balls to create three-dimensional heroes of fairy tales and cartoons. You only need to color the thread products to match the appropriate image. Oval blanks can become matreshkas dancing in a round dance.

Unfading flowers

Artificial flowers are created from fabric, ribbons, pieces of leather, paper. Flowers made of thread look no less beautiful. Light, airy, incredible beauty crafts can be created from ordinary cotton thread, floss, iris, yarn.

The first method consists of winding the thread on a ball of paper and covering it with glue. After drying, divide the ball into two bowls and cut out the base with the petals of roses, lilies, tulips, dahlias, asters or other flowers. By combining several cutouts into one bud, you get very beautiful flowers.

The second method of making flowers is based on a wire frame. To create wonderful flowers, you need to carry out the following steps:

• Wind the wire tightly on a thin needle
• From the resulting spiral to create the outline of the petals, in the middle of which to pull a straight wire and leave the end of the wire at the base of the flower
• wind the thread through the middle of the petal crosswise, hooking the thread on the spiral line
• Thread the filled petals into a single bud by the ends of the wire.

In the same way to make leaves. Wrap a stalk of stronger wire with thread or green yarn, and attach leaves at the same time.

From the remnants of thread needlewomen can create cases for glasses, teapot warmers, cup holders, baskets, caskets and many other useful souvenirs. Clubs of yarn, unsuitable for creating large things, can be useful for creating interesting and useful crafts. Products will not require additional finances, but will delight you with their originality and uniqueness, emphasize the individual style and taste of the master, cause admiration for the talent.

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