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Preparations for crafting poinsettias made of gold foil

  1. Cut a strip of gold foil. Your poinsettia will be as big as the strip you cut. The cut strip of gold foil is always half the size of the whole star later.
  2. Depending on the size, you will not get by with one strip of gold foil and have to glue on a second or even a third strip of gold foil.
  3. Fold the first strip of gold foil into an accordion. That means, fold a strip from the narrow side of the foil about half a centimeter to one centimeter.
  4. Then turn the gold foil over and fold another strip of the same size.
  5. Turn the film over again and fold over another strip of the same size.
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  6. Keep doing this until you have creased the foil into a single strip.
  7. Now grasp the strip at one end with two fingers and pull the other end around as far as it will go.
  8. Now you can see how much material you still need to get a complete circle.
  9. If you can already turn a complete circle with the strip you have made so far, then you can start to cut a star out of it.
  10. If the amount is not enough, you have to cut another strip of gold foil to the exact width and fold it in the same way as the first gold foil strip.
  11. Now glue both foils together with a craft glue and let the glue dry well.
  12. Now test again whether both sides can be merged into a circle.
  13. If your gold foil strip was very large, you may need to make a third strip.
  14. Then glue this just like you did with the first gold foil.

Make poinsettias out of gold foil

  1. Thread a piece of thread onto the needle and pierce the needle with the thread completely through an end piece of the gold foil strip.
  2. Now cut out small triangles or crescent moons from the sides of the foil strips with pointed, sharp scissors.
  3. Be careful never to cut so much that the entire strip is cut through. Always cut small pieces out of the gold foil.
  4. You can cut the pieces out of the foil on the right as well as on the left.
  5. But always make sure that the cuts never touch.
  6. Now join the two end pieces of the gold foil and glue them together.
  7. Pull the thread tight and knot it.

Now you have a filigree gold foil star. Now attach a thread at one point and hang up the gold foil star.

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