For believers, Easter is considered the largest church holiday. After Lent, every housewife sets the table, trying to decorate it beautifully. In addition to the main dishes, eggs are always placed on it. In the old days they were only made red, because they symbolized the drops of blood of Jesus that were dropping along the road to Calvary.
Now the housewives are competing in the art of coloring eggs. There are different ways of painting using wax, paraffin, gluing fragments, alternating coloring and many others. But it is very disappointing when so much labor is invested in the design of such products, and at the table, guests mercilessly break and eat them.
In order for beauty not only to decorate the holiday table and basket for the church, but also to please everyone for a long time, we suggest you create Easter eggs with your own hands from satin ribbons. A variety of options leaves freedom for creative ideas. Color combinations of ribbons, decoration with flowers and rhinestones, gluing beads and making small parts - all this is your fantasy.
Necessary materials
Having come to the sewing accessories store, you can immediately purchase everything you need for making an Easter egg from ribbons. You will need sharp scissors, satin ribbons (you select the width and colors depending on the type of egg), a set of sewing pins with flat heads (like cloves), foam egg blanks, double-sided tape. If you will decorate the product with rhinestones or purchased insects, then you will need an adhesive gun. But for craftswomen who love to do needlework, such an instrument should always be present. To create ribbon flowers for decoration, you may need a needle with a thread and tweezers.
Preparation for work
Before starting any work, you need to think about how the product will look in its final version, whether the colors combine with each other, how to place additional details decorating the egg. They can be made in advance by making the flower arrangement separately. It remains only to attach it to the Easter egg from the ribbons.
If you are working in the artichoke technique, then first you need to cut the tape into small pieces of the same length (2-2.5 cm). Leave longer trim on the bottom ribbons of the egg. It is better to take the length of the tapes with a margin so that later there is no problem of a shortage of a certain color.
The artichoke technique
The name for this performance is given from the structure of the basket of a famous vegetable, in which all the leaves have the shape of triangles, looking angled upwards. The first step in decorating an Easter egg from ribbons is to close the top. On the foam egg we find the sharp tip and use a piece of ribbon of the desired color to cover it, catching the edges with pins. You can use tape.
The next step will be the design of the first circle of triangles. We take previously cut pieces of tape 2 cm long and fold so that we get a sharp corner. We place the triangle with the tip up and pin with pins on both sides. Thus we fill the first circle. Make sure that the tops are clearly connected.
Then we retreat down a short distance and lay out the next level. It is only necessary to carefully monitor that the distance between the first and second level of triangles along the entire perimeter is the same. Then the finished product will look neat.
Variations of products in the artichoke technique
It is quite easy to make an Easter egg with ribbons in the master class. Only diligence and patience are needed. The variety of eggs made in this way depends only on the density of the rows and color scheme. Easter eggs from satin ribbons that have a smooth color transition in circles look interesting. For example, the top of several layers is white, then comes the light green color, then light green, the next is emerald and at the end is dark green.
The next option is to alternate layers of different colors. They can be contrasting, but they need to be selected with taste. Looks nice option when the colors are combined vertically. Then in the process, you need to alternately pin up triangles of different colors.
The Easter egg from ribbons located at a close distance from each other looks beautiful and neat. The first row can be done by slightly departing from the edge of the apex. Decorate eggs made using the artichoke technique can only be from below or from above. The top can be made somewhat differently by pasting in the central part a flower of rhinestones or beads. A small flower collected from petals on a thread will also look beautiful. From below you can decorate with a beautiful bow or make a chain of two colors, assembled by folding two ribbons at a right angle.
Vertical design
The most diverse in the use of additional funds in the manufacture of an Easter egg with their own hands from ribbons is vertical design. Applying ribbons from the top to the bottom, we get a smooth and smooth satin surface. It is convenient to attach additional decorations from flowers, twigs to it, showing your imagination and ability to draw flowers from ribbons.
For this type of work you need to have the following materials:
1. The thinnest satin ribbon, you can take several colors (optional).
2. Double-sided tape or pins with a bead at the end.
3. The glue gun.
4. Wide ribbons for additional decorations.
5. A needle with a thread.
Base manufacture
To get started, take a double-sided tape and glue over the top and bottom of the foam egg. Then the tape is taken and the process of neatly wrapping around the perimeter of the dummy begins. The distance should be the same between the rows. The tension of the tape is strong so that it later does not move and the white base does not peek out.
You can use the alternation of vertical rows with ribbons of two colors. For this, two ribbons are taken at once and the egg is wrapped simultaneously in a circle with two colors located next to it.
You can alternate colors with sectors. But before changing the shade, you will have to glue a layer of tape to better fasten the tape. Joints between sectors can be wrapped with a contrast tape, it will look original. Each sector can be decorated in different ways.
As you can see, this process is nothing complicated. The main thing is to pull the tape tight and make the distance between the layers more even.
Combination Technician
There are product options where there are both vertical stripes and artichoke triangles. At the beginning of the design, cover the entire surface of the egg with vertical stripes from top to bottom using double-sided tape. The resulting egg is completely coated with the primary color.
The next step will be the design of the bottom of the Easter egg with triangles. To do this, take again thin sewing pins (carnations with a thin hat). The artichoke triangles can be made by moving each next row to the middle of the previous one, then the artichoke basket will look more magnificent.
The bottom is decorated with a bow of the same color. And the smooth upper part of the product can be decorated with additional flowers made separately. You can stick flowers from pebbles, insert pins with colored beads at the ends. The design of each egg can be made different by alternating and adding different colors and shades.
Flower decoration
Easter eggs decorated with ribbons look very beautiful with additional decoration with a pattern of flowers, beads, gluing rhinestones and pebbles of different sizes. You can make a green twig with leaves, on which to arrange small-sized flowers. Insects glued next to flowers look beautiful. It can be butterflies, dragonflies, ladybugs. Flowers can also be made from satin ribbons, or you can use lace.
Tapes can be both monophonic, and with drawing. But it is advisable to combine them with plain ones when working with decorated ribbons, so that the egg does not turn out to be lurid and tasteless. The main thing in the manufacture of such products is not to go too far with the details. If there are too many additional elements, the egg will not look aesthetically pleasing. It is necessary to have a sense of proportion in everything.
If you have a lot of skills in making flowers from ribbons, make a few different options for Easter eggs. It is not necessary to attach all the details to one product.
Having created a whole dish of such Easter eggs, you can admire them for a long time, give a gift to relatives or decorate the workplace at work. They are stored for a long time, so you can put them off until the next Easter celebration in a box. By and large, making Easter eggs from satin ribbons, a master class on the manufacture of which is presented in our review, is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.