Happy Easter Eggs

Today’s tutorial is all about Easter. I got the idea at haberdasher’s, when I saw those polystyrene eggs and an embroidery floss stand below it. I have worked with such eggs a long time ago but I used ribbons for decorating them. The effect wasn’t very satisfying for me and I used tons of pins. This idea, however, requires tons of white glue but it’s cheaper and really rewarding.

difficulty:  easy
estimated time: 1 day



For one Easter Egg you need:

• a polystyrene egg
• a wooden skewer
• two colors of embroidery floss (three would be too much)
• white glue

  Estimated cost:

	USD	EUR
wood glue (50ml)	$ 2.90	2.50 €
polystyrene egg	$ 1.30	1.00 €
embroidery floss	2 x $ 0.33	1.10 €
TOTAL	$ 4.76	4.60 €

Tutorial steps:

1. Stick the wooden skewer in the bottom of the polystyrene egg.

2.  Put some white glue on the bottom of the egg. Then, spread the glue around the egg from the bottom to the tip, to make a sticky stripe.

3. Take one of the embroidery floss and stick its end to the bottom of the egg, close to the skewer. Then stick the floss along the stripe of glue, smearing it with wood glue. Do everything with your fingers – the wood glue is quite fast drying and paintbrush would be inadequate. Don’t be afraid of getting dirty – that’s the point here, and the wood glue can be really easily washed and it will be transparent when fully dried.

4. Wind the floss this way several times till it’s 0.5 cm wide.
 

5. Make the second stripe the same way (using the same color) so that it’s crossed with the first one.

6. Using the other color of embroidery floss make the similar cross so that its stripes are between the old ones (see the scheme below).

7. Fill the gaps with floss, sticking it along the edges of the gap (make a “snail shell-like” pattern – without cutting the floss into pieces, using a lot of glue and ending in the centre of the gap). Do it in every single gap till the whole egg is covered. Put it in the soil in one of your pot plants and leave it till it’s fully dried.

  

Downloadables and links

- Printable version (PDF)

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