How to make an Easter egg from ribbons?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

For believers, Easter is considered the biggest church holiday. Each housewife sets the table after Lent, trying to decorate it beautifully. In addition to the main dishes, eggs are always put on it. In the old days, they were made only red, because they symbolized the drops of Jesus' blood that dripped along the road to Calvary.

Now the housewives compete in the art of dyeing eggs. There are different ways of painting using wax, paraffin, gluing fragments, alternate staining and many others. But it can be very disappointing when so much work is invested in the design of such products, and at the table the guests mercilessly break them and eat them.

To make beauty not only decorate the festive table and church basket, but also please everyone for a long time, we suggest you create Easter eggs with your own hands from satin ribbons. The variety of options leaves room for creative ideas. Color combinations of ribbons, decoration with flowers and rhinestones, gluing beads and making small details are all up to your imagination.

Required Materials

When you go to a sewing accessories store, you can immediately buy everything you need to make an Easter egg from ribbons. Needthere will be sharp scissors, satin ribbons (choose the width and colors depending on the type of egg), a set of sewing pins with flat heads (like carnations), foam egg blanks, double-sided tape. If you decorate the product with rhinestones or purchased insects, then you will need an adhesive gun. But for craftswomen who love to do needlework, such a tool should always be present. You may need a needle and thread and tweezers to create ribbon flowers for decoration.

Preparation for work

Before starting any work, you need to think about how the product will look in its final version, whether the colors are combined with each other, how to place additional details decorating the egg. They can be made in advance by making a flower arrangement separately. It remains only to attach it to the Easter egg from ribbons.

If you are working in the artichoke technique, then you first need to cut the ribbons into small pieces of the same length (2-2.5 cm). Leave the longer trimmings to decorate the bottom of the egg with ribbons. It is better to take the length of the ribbons with a margin, so that later the problem of a lack of a certain color does not arise.

Artichoke technique

The name of this performance is given from the structure of the basket of a famous vegetable, in which all the leaves are in the form of triangles, looking up with corners. The first step in decorating an Easter egg with ribbons is to close the top. On the foam egg we find a sharp top and cover it with a piece of tape of the desired color, catching the edges with pins. Canuse tape.

The next step is to make the first circle of triangles. We take the previously cut pieces of tape 2 cm long and fold them so that we get a sharp corner. We put the triangle with the tip up and pin it with pins on both sides. Thus, we complete the first circle. Make sure that the tops are clearly connected.

Then retreat down a short distance and lay out the next level. You just need to carefully monitor that the distance between the first and second levels of triangles around the entire perimeter is the same. Then the finished product will look neat.

Variations in artichoke technique

Easter egg with ribbons on the master class is quite easy to make. It just takes diligence and patience. The variety of eggs made in this way depends only on the density of the rows and the color scheme. Easter eggs made of satin ribbons look interesting, which have a smooth color transition in circles. For example, the top of several layers is white, then light green, then light green, the next emerald and finally dark green.

The next option is to alternate layers of different colors. They can be contrasting, but they need to be selected with taste. The option looks beautiful when the colors are combined vertically. Then, in the process of work, you need to alternately pin up triangles of different colors.

An Easter egg made of ribbons located at a close distance from each other looks beautiful and neat. The first row can be done by stepping back a little from the edge of the top. You can decorate eggs made using the "artichoke" technique only from below or from above. The top can be made a little differently by sticking a flower made of rhinestones or beads in the central part. A small flower assembled 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 tools when making an Easter egg with your own hands from ribbons is vertical design. By applying tape from top to bottom, we get a flat and smooth satin surface. It is convenient to attach additional decorations from flowers, twigs to it, showing your imagination and skill in composing 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 on the end.

3. Glue gun.

4. Ribbons are wide for additional embellishments.

5. Needle and thread.

Making the base

First, take double-sided tape and paste over the top and bottom of the foam egg. Then the tape is taken and the process of neat wrapping around the perimeter of the model begins. The distance between the rows should be the same. The tension of the tape is strong so that it does not move later and the white base does not peek out.

You can use the alternation of vertical rows with ribbons of two colors. To do this, two ribbons are taken at once and the egg is wrapped simultaneously in a circle with two colors located side by side.

You can alternate colors by sectors. But before changing the shade, you will have to glue a layer of adhesive tape for better fastening of the tape. The joints between the sectors can be wrapped with a contrasting tape, it will look original. Each sector can be decorated differently.

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 of techniques

There are variants of products where there are both vertical stripes and "artichoke" triangles. At the beginning of the design, the entire surface of the egg is covered with vertical stripes from top to bottom, using double-sided tape. The resulting egg is completely covered in the base color.

The next step is to decorate the bottom of the Easter egg with triangles. To do this, take again thin sewing pins (carnations with a thin hat). Artichoke triangles can be made by shifting 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 topproducts can be decorated with additional, separately made flowers. You can stick flowers from pebbles, insert pins with colored beads at the ends. The decoration of each egg can be made to be different by alternating and adding different colors and shades.

Flower decoration

Easter eggs decorated with ribbons look very nice if they are additionally decorated 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 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.

Ribbons can be either plain or patterned. But it is advisable, when working with decorated ribbons, to combine them with plain ones so that the egg does not turn out to be clumsy and tasteless. The main thing in the manufacture of such products is not to overdo it with details. If there are too many additional elements, then the egg will not look aesthetically pleasing. You need to have a sense of proportion in everything.

If you have a lot of ribbon flower making skills in your inventory, then make a few different variations of Easter eggs. No need to attach all the details to one product.

By creating a whole dish of such Easter eggs, you can admire them for a long time, make a gift to relatives or decorate your workplace at work. They are stored for a long time, so you can put them away until the next Easter celebration in a box. By and large, making Easter eggs out ofsatin ribbons, a master class for the manufacture of which is presented in our review, is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.