TREE WALL HANGING (page 8)
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TREE WALL HANGING (page 8)
You’ll need:
⅔ yds. Wright’s Metallic Soutache, 9960 (P505), gold 7⅓ yds. Wright’s Metallic Braid 9962, gold 2½ yds. Wright’s Metallic Braid 9882 (P511), gold White felt 15″ x 27″ Dowel stick 16″, slit at ends.
To make:
1. Fold under top of felt 1″ and glue edge for dowel stick casing.
2. Draw trunk line at center 22″ long.
3. Cut two 11″ strips flat braid (9962) for lower branches. Place ends flat at center 4″ from trunk base. Fold under loop end for branch tip slanting 1″ lower than at trunk. Repeat branches making 1″ shorter for each set leaving 2″ spaces. (Total of 8 sets)
4. Glue decorative braid above each branch varying length ⅝″.
5. Cut 44″ flat braid for trunk. Fold and glue as for branches with raw ends at tree base. Glue decorative braid over center of trunk.
6. Cut four 1½″ pieces flat braid. Crisscross into star at tree top. Clip ends diagonally, then glue. Glue decorative braid in circle at center.
7. Glue flat braid at outer edges of panel.
8. Insert dowel into casing. Knot ends of soutache and slip into slits of dowel stick.