Floral greens!

When my blossoming Golden Girl came to visit - almost 2 weeks ago, yikes! - she brought these sweet little yarn covered baubles to show me. She'd found the idea in an older magazine from the op shop a while ago and kept them in mind....... then was lucky enough to find the large green spool of thin wool at another oppy later on! She did think that a pomegranate red would stand out on the Christmas tree a little better but made the best of what she had - good girl!! 

 Now the sad part is that the only shots I got of her making these is the winding of the wool! This needs to be done in a random pattern all over the styrofoam ball until there's no more white showing, then tuck in the end with the eye end of a needle. 

Sorry but you will have to close your eyes and imagine the next step...... she embroidered the coloured (red or blue) daisy flowers first, then filled in with the gold ones and last of all added the beads in any bare spots and also in the centres of the flowers. You won't need to make a knot when you start the flowers, simply run the thread along just under all the wool in a zig zag motion and it should hold.

The hanger is a length of embroidery thread, once again simply pulled through the strands of wool and knotted at the top, Oh, and she added a little bead so it looks extra fancy! 

Apologies for the very shonky style of tutorial - she tells me that she can make one of these in an evening while sitting and chatting to her Beloved but she didn't manage one while we were sitting and chatting in the warm spring air!! Hence few action shots! But I'm hoping that it's all fairly self explanatory from the many photo's. 

If you work it out and make some, please let me know - I'd love to see your creations, too!