VIDEO: Make dream catchers yourself

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If you are planning on making a dream catcher, first think about what it should look like. Just give yourself the time and take your time to get what you need Utils and decorative elements. There are many things to buy in handicraft shops or corresponding mail order companies (rings, wooden beads, assortments of feathers, waxed cord).

  • If you want to make the rings yourself, choose thin willow branches that are still very flexible. You don't need to soak them, so you can close them to form a ring. Notch both sides slightly opposite, place these areas on top of each other and tie them together with very thin wire. Then wrap these rings tightly with raffia or with the narrow strips of suede. Glue the ends together.
  • A shoemaker will be happy to sell you suede in the form of leftovers, which you then have to cut yourself into narrow strips. This is best done on a wooden surface with the help of a steel ruler and a sharp cutter.
  • Go away from the usual and use things that remind you of something beautiful, good, warm when you look at it, even if it is not Indian: Chicken gods (stones with holes) from a nice walk on the beach, pierced shells or snail shells, a small mushroom or a piece of bark from a plane tree, Beechnuts.
  • When you have everything together, you can start with your very own, very personal dream catcher.
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So you can make a dream catcher yourself

  1. Decide how many rings to use for your dream catcher. In each prepared ring of thin waxed cord, knot a kind of spider's web by first crossing threads pull (for a medium-sized ring about 8) and then put a thread with the next thread in several rounds knot. In the middle of the braid, put one wood- or other pearl.
  2. Now place the rings one below the other on the table in front of you (the largest ring is on top) and decide how you want to decorate them. Simply place the jewelry you have collected next to the rings so that you can get an idea of ​​the finished dream catcher.
  3. Then connect the individual rings with each other with thin strips of suede, thin copper wire or double bast thread. You pull a loop of suede through the largest ring as a pendantwhich is glued to the ring with a wooden bead and some glue.
  4. Carefully drill a small hole through the decorative elements (shells, snail shells, stones, beechnuts, mushrooms, bark of the plane tree, etc.) and pull fishing cord or bast threads through it. You connect the feathers with sewing thread to form small tufts (3-4 pieces). Fasten this with fishing line, on which you have previously threaded a wooden bead, at the places provided on the side of the respective ring of the dream catcher (even arrangement creates calmness) and then pull the pearl over them Attachment point. Glue them in place with a small dab of glue.
  5. At the bottom, choose an element that is particularly close to your heart, perhaps a very pretty stone (give it a net of string) or a chicken god.
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