All year long I make bobbin lace, why?
So I have lots of curly thread ends to play about with at Christmas of course 😄
This fun decoration is simple to make, although it pushed the edges of my craft tolerance with the glue, such messy stuff and it always prefers to stick on my fingers rather than the craft.
Tease the threads out to remove any short ones which will fall off , press into the glue blob, building up a generous pile.
The threads spread out in all directions from the glue blob, make one direction longer than the others.
When the glue is thoroughly dry, peel the beard off the plastic.
Make a little tassle with some of the short straight threads for the top of the hat.
Cut out two red felt hat shapes, add a bit of scrap felt to stick out of the hat at the bottom,(this is to sew the beard to) and a little brim, sew them together, adding in the tassle at the top, and add seed beads along the brim.
Sew the beard onto the bit of scrap under the hat, from the back. The top section of the beard above the glue is folded down to create the moustache, covering up the glue dimple.
Sew the pink bead for the nose between the beard and the hat, don't worry if it sits a bit over the beard.
Add a thread if you want to hang this Thread End Santa up, or just stick it to a card. I chose to leave the beard ridiculously long, but you can trim to your own taste.
