If you are looking for different and creative ideas to make your Christmas decoration, Scandinavian Star Ornament is a perfect choice.
You need two contrasting fabric for getting the best effect from the stars. You can choose any color combinations; red and green, blue and white, red and white or whatever suits your decoration. Here I preferred red and Green which Suits the Christmas spirit best and also they are my facourite colors.
As fabric choices you need to use a quilting cotton as you need a fairly firm fabrics.
The woven Star is double sided for two different looks.
Below is my step by step tutorial on how to make a scandinavian Star ornament.
You will need:
- 2 pieces of fabric 6 1/2" x 6 1/2"
- double sided iron on fusible interfacing
- hot glue gun
Instructions
Step 1:
Place the interfacing between the wrong sides of the fabric squares. Line up the edges of the two squares, right sides of fabric facing outwards. Iron the squares to bond them.
Step 2:
Using a rotary cutter trim down the square to 6"x6". Then cut the square in 1/2" strings with a rotary cutter. Cutting them right is important in order to get a good looking star.
Step 3:
The ornament is two sided; six strips will be used making red side and six strips will be used to make the other green side.
Take two strips, fold them in half and finger pressed to create a fold. Now we are making the red side. All strips here will have the right side facing upwards.
Put some glue across the center fold and place the other strip with its fold crease over the glued area. You create a cross as shown in the Picture below. Check the angles are perfect right angles using the grid on the cutting mat.
Step 4:
The cross is laid out in front of you, line up two more strips; one on each side of the center vertical strip. They should go over the horizontal strip with a space around 1/8" inch from each other. All ends should be in a straight line. Fold back one vertical strip and put some glue on the horizontal strip before pressing it back down. Repeat with the strip on the other side of the center strip.
Take the next two strips and place them on either side of the horizontal strip and do the classic under and over to create a weave at this point. Do not forget to place some glue on the points where they cross with the vertical strips in order to secure the weave in place.
Step 5:
Put some glue on each spot where vertical strips intersects with the two horizontal strips that are on either side of the central horizontal strip.
Step 6:
Take one of the outer strips and turn it, so you see the contrasting fabric, put some glue on the end and then pick up the piece at the right angle closest to it, turn it also to see the contrasting fabric, then place its end over the glued
end. It looks like a flower petal. Repeat this with the other three sides, so you have four petals and two central strips flat. You do not use the central strips at this point.
Step 7:
Put the half-finished red star aside and repeat steps 3 to 6 with the other six strips with the green sides uppermost.
Step 8:
Now you have two half stars finished. Place the red half with the star points facing upward on your worktop. Now place the green half star with the star points facing upwards diagonally across the base half. The star points should equally be distant from each other.
Place the four flat strips into star points and tuck each one under a star point on the one side. Make sure that the strips are flat.
Step 9:
Flip over the star and lift the ends of the pieces tucked into the star points. Add some glue and press them together. Do the same for the other pieces.
Step 10:
Trim off the tiny bits at the end of each star.
Step 11:
Thread the piece of ribbon through one point star in order to create a loop or you can prefer to glue the ribbon.
Your ornament is ready now.
Making Scandinavian star ornament is a tradition in Nordic countries. It is not only easy but also fun to make. You can have a good time making your own ornaments at home. And not only for Christmas, they are perfect as decorations all year round.
