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YARN
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Mobile
Materials: Two wire hangers, tin snips, electrical tape, yarn, scissors, craft glue (such as Sobo), and wax paper.
- Bend one hanger hook into a small loop. Cut the other hook off with the snips.
- Fit one hanger inside the other at a right angle. Tape them together at the neck.
- Create yarn bundles and dip each wad of yarn in diluted craft glue (70 percent glue, 30 percent water). Lay them on wax paper to dry.
- Hang the dry bundles from the mobile frame with varying lengths of yarn.
Lamp-Shade Upgrade
Materials: Tape, yarn, scissors, and lamp shade.
- Tape one end of a piece of yarn inside the shade at the top. Wrap the other around the shade at the bottom, creating slanted lines with half-inch gaps at the top for a diamond pattern (or tighter gaps for a striped pattern).
- Once you've wrapped it all the way around, remove the tape. Tie the ends together.
- To achieve the diamond effect, repeat, going in the opposite direction.
Tassel
Materials: Yarn and scissors.
- Cut strips of yarn twice as long as your desired tassel length. Pile them in a stack.
- Tie one longer piece of yarn around the center of the stack, securing it with a knot.
- Fold the stack in half. Wrap another piece of yarn several times around the neck. Tie.
- Trim the tassel ends to make them even. Attach to whatever you like with the one long center piece of yarn that's left hanging.
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