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" WOOLLY PINE CONES Materials: - 3&amp;quot; Styrofoam egg - 4&amp;quot; Styrofoam ball - 1/4 yard 72&amp;quot; wide felt in color of choice - Straight pins - Small sharp detail scissor Directions: 1. For small egg: Cut a 1 1/4&amp;quot;x36&amp;quot; strip of felt. For large ball: Cut 1 1/2&amp;quot;x45&amp;quot; strip of felt. 2. Cut 1/2&amp;quot; deep V-shaped notches every 1/4&amp;quot; to 1/2&amp;quot; along the entire length of one edge of the strip. 3. Pin strip to bottom of the egg, notched end down. Wrap it around the egg, pinning every few inches, and overlapping the next strip to cover the notches. At the top of the egg, pinch and fold the material, pinning more often, to accommodate the curve of the Styrofoam form. 4. Cut a 6&amp;quot;x1/4&amp;quot; strip, create a loop, and pin both ends to the top of the form to create a hanger TWISTY ICICLES Materials: - 4oz bottle of white glue - 3 cups water - Large mixing bowl - Large cork board or piece of wood, covered entirely with plastic wrap - Thumb tacks - 2 colors of felt per icicle - Scissors - 2&amp;quot; piece of ribbon - Hot glue gun and hot glue Directions: 1. Mix 1/2 bottle of white glue with three cups of warm water in large a mixing bowl (this mixture will create 72 icicles). 2. Cut a 6&amp;quot;-9&amp;quot; long pointed icicle shape from each color of felt. 3. Wet both felt pieces in glue/water mixture. Align the pieces of felt and twist them together, squeezing out the water as you go. 4. Place the twisted icicle on the cork board and tack in place until dry. 5. Remove tacks. Hot-glue a 2&amp;quot; loop to the top of the icicle as a hanger. RUFFLED TWO-TONE GARLAND Materials: - 1/2 yd of 72&amp;quot; wide red felt - Yardstick - Pencil - 1/2 yd 72&amp;quot; wide white felt - Heavy-duty white thread - 2&amp;quot; long embroidery needle Directions: 1. Fold the red fabric in half lengthwise (to get a 36&amp;quot; long, double-thick piece). Using a yardstick, lightly mark stripes every 2&amp;quot; along the short edge (you will have 9 total). 2. Keeping fabric folded, use scissors to cut wavy edges along the stripes. Unfold them and you&amp;#039;ll have 9 72&amp;quot; long strips. Repeat with white fabric. 3. Thread a needle with a long piece (at least 40&amp;quot;) of heavy duty white thread and knot the end. 4. Place two 72&amp;quot; long red and white strips on top of one another with the ends aligned. Keep red strip on top and white strip on bottom as you work through the next steps. 5. Hold strips in front of you with the end of strips in your hand and the tails falling to floor. Bring the needle up thru the two strips finishing on top. 6. Thread the needle down the center of the red strip ONLY, every 1/2&amp;quot;, 5 times, ending with the needle pointing down. Gather the felt. Then push the needle down through the white felt, 3&amp;quot; from the beginning edge of the garland. Note: The trick to gather only one color at a time; this 3&amp;quot; section will not be gathered in the next step. 7. Thread the needle through the white strip ONLY, every 1/2&amp;quot;, 5 times, ending with the needle pointing up. Gather the white felt, then push the needle up into the red felt. 8. Continue in this manner, alternating colors, so that one side is gathered and the other straight, to thread through the entire garland. Knot ends. 9. Continue with the rest of the strips of felt, sewing them end-to-end once they are all finished. SCALLOPED TREE SKIRT (to fill entire 7&amp;quot; tree) Materials: - 2 yards 72&amp;quot; wide felt in color of choice - Scissors - Yardstick - Pencil - Scissors Directions: 1. Open felt out flat on floor, to a 72&amp;quot; square. Fold the 72&amp;quot; square in half, and fold again to make a 36&amp;quot; square. 2. Lay the square of felt out with the folded corners to your upper left side. The folded corner (top left) will be the center of the tree skirt. 3. From the upper left corner, use a yardstick and pencil to lightly mark an arc from the bottom left to top right corners, 36&amp;quot; from the top left corner (this would make a big circle if you unfolded the felt). 4. Use the yardstick to draw a straight line from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. Create a scallop shape along your circle, between the bottom left edge and this center line. Create a second scallop between the center line and top right edge. 5. Leaving the fabric folded, cut 2&amp;quot; off the top left (folded) corner to create the center opening for the tree, then cut out the scallop pattern through all the folded layers of felt. 6. Unfold. Cut a straight line from the bottom of one scallop to the center to create an opening for the back of the skirt. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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