Glow your own way
Turn paper twine into a glowing wreath with string lights
Wind paper twine into flowers—it’s incredibly easy on a loom ring. Attach the blooms to a wreath form, thread in a string of lights, and hang it in a window or on the wall.
Supplies for the ice-flower light wreath
- paper twine, thickness 1.65; 50 g in white (100 g ≈ 180 m/590 ft)
- loom ring, ø 9 cm (3.5 in)
- metal ring, ø 30 cm (12 in)
- LED string lights, 1 m (3 ft 3 in)
- hot glue gun
- scissors
Tip!
You can also make the paper-twine flowers on a flower loom.
How to make the ice-flower light wreath
- Make 16 flowers on the loom ring. Tie a starting loop in the twine and place it on the side peg at the outer edge of the ring. Begin wrapping counterclockwise in a figure eight: take the twine over the peg on the opposite side from right to left, then back down under the first peg from right to left.
- Take the twine over the next peg on the left from right to left, then down under the opposite peg from right to left. Continue until all peg pairs are wrapped.
- Wrap a second round the same way. There are now two loops on every peg.
- Leave about a 40 cm (16 in) tail and tie the flower at the center: First, bring the twine to the front between one petal, then pass it back on the other side of that petal. Next, move to the opposite petal: come to the front along the petal’s left side and return to the back along its right side. Tie all petal pairs this way and leave the twine at the back. Release the twine from the side peg and knot the ends together behind the flower.
- Remove the flower from the ring by lifting the petals off the pegs one by one. Wrap the LED string lights around the metal ring.
- Protect your work surface. Glue the flowers to the metal ring with hot glue. Apply glue to the back of the flower, next to the center. Place the flower right side down on the table and press the metal ring onto the glue. The glued spot will sit outside the ring’s circumference, with the flower’s center inside the ring.
- Glue the next flower on the opposite side (at six o’clock), then place the next two halfway between these (at three and nine). Glue the next four flowers midway between the previous ones, and the last eight flowers in between those again.
Tip! Wind the flowers with glitter twine for extra sparkle.
Yarn and pattern inquiries: Lappajärven Värjäämö, filona.fi.
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