Snowflakes for Inside

On my mantle this year I made an arrangement of some red dogwood branches in a green vase and I added some snowflakes made from plastic canvas.

These snowflakes are easy to make and I was given my first one in an ornament swap several years ago.  Of course I had to take it apart and see how it was made so that I could have lots of snowflakes.

You need white plastic canvas and some white yarn. I used some Christmas white yarn that had some gold and silver threads running through it.  Here is the pattern I made. I don't take credit for designing this pattern, I just drew it out by copying.  If you happen to know where this pattern was originally posted I would be happy to give credit to the designer.

The plastic canvas piece has to be 13 holes by 13 holes and then you carefully snip out the pieces to match the pattern above.

You need to cut out 2 identical pieces.  The stitching is done from the center out in long fan stitches to fill in the corners.  I have even stitched around the edges of both pieces just to make them each look different.  A little star bead or similar is glued to the center of each piece.

 Turn one piece upside down and place the other piece on top of it so that the corner pieces cover the spaces.  Then carefully lift the back corners through the spaces of the front piece.  Is that as clear as driving in a snowstorm?  I hope the above image will help you to figure it out.  They will gently snap into place. Add a bit of thread or a tree hook to hang from the tree or greenery arrangements or any place else you think of.This is a quick and easy craft and you will soon have your own inside snowstorm. And judging by the weather forecast for tomorrow there may just be a snowstorm outside as well.