‘Tis the season for quick and festive crafts – and this year I crafted up some lovely Tabletop Christmas Trees, using just a few special items. And it was easy enough for the whole family to help! Here’s how I made them – so you can make some too!
Disclaimer: This post includes affiliate links; yarn provided by Lion Brand.
This craft really couldn’t be simpler. You need:
Lion Brand WOW! – 1 skein will make 1 large tree or 2 small trees
Floracraft Foam Cones – 18″, 14.9″, and 8.8″ used
T pins (optional, but super helpful)
To get started, put a good dollop of glue on top of the cone, and start one end of the yarn there – pin it down with a T pin if you have one, and leave this one in place for now.
Then, it’s just a matter of adding glue and yarn, a bit at a time, working your way around and down the cone! I used two additional T pins – one on each side of the cone – moving them down as I went down the cone.
Keep going…
… and going…
Until you get to the bottom! Because styrofoam cones like to crumble a bit over time, I decided to encase the entire cone in yarn, so I kept going until the bottom was covered too. I added more pins there to help secure the transition from the side to the bottom of the cone.
I left the pin in the top and the pins in the bottom overnight, while the glue dried. In the morning, I took the pins out and used a pair of sharp scissors to trim off any places where the yarn had fuzzed up. Et voila!
It took only a couple of hours to cover all three cones, and just a few minutes to remove the pins when they were done drying. And I love how great they look on my dining room table! These Tabletop Christmas Trees were the perfect use for Lion Brand Wow, and I just adore that they add color and texture to our seasonal decor. Here’s a pin to save the idea for later:
I hope you get a chance to make your own Tabletop Christmas Trees this year – Lion Brand Wow comes in a great variety of colors, so you can have a lot of fun with these no matter what your decor. Happy handmade holidays to all!
Written instructions and photographs copyright Tamara Kelly 2017, all rights reserved. Please do not reprint or repost this project, but please do link to this page to share this pattern with others. To print or download, use the Print Friendly button below, or go to PrintFriendly.com, or right-click to copy and paste it into a word processing document if those options do not work for you (please note that Print Friendly is a free outside website that the button links to, and you can click here for a tutorial on how to use it, but I cannot provide additional technical support for this service). If you wish to make items for sale from this pattern or translate it to another language, please visit the About page for details. Thank you to Lion Brand Yarn for providing the yarn for this project.
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