How to Make Yarn Daisies

Cheerful yarn daisies can be used in dozens of ways; they make attractive package decorations, they can dress up a party table, in autumn colors they look great as part of a fall foliage display and they can even perch prettily in your Christmas tree. Once you see how simple these daisies are to make, you’ll want to invest in an extensive supply of yarn in a variety of colors. You can easily put the daisies together by the dozens while you watch your favorite TV show.

Things You'll Need

• Heavy yarn (like the kind used for rug-making)
• Scraps of felt
• Cardboard (from a grocery carton)
• Ruler
• Masking tape
• Scissors
• Glue gun

Instructions

1. Cut the cardboard into a 5-inch rectangle.

2. 

   Unroll the yarn. Tape one end of the yarn to the center of the cardboard. Begin winding the yarn around the cardboard twenty times, keeping the loops right next to each other. Cut the yarn after the last loop.

3. 

   Keep the loops next to each other while you slide them off the cardboard. Carefully remove the tape and discard.

4. 

   Cut a 4-inch piece of yarn. Place the looped yarn on top of this piece of yarn and tie the looped yarn in the center.

5. 

   Take a hold of each of the individual loops one at a time. Begin fanning them out in a circular fashion so that the whole arrangement resembles a daisy.

6. 

   Cut a 2-inch circle of felt in a matching or complimentary color. Using a glue gun, glue the felt circle onto the daisy’s center.

7. Use completed daisies as package decorations. For example, you might wrap a package in plain brown paper and glue three yellow daisies with dark brown centers on top. Flowered wrapping papers look particularly attractive when daisies made from the same colors top the package. Presents wrapped in white paper become something special when black daisies with red centers are used as package decorations.

8. Cut a length of wide ribbon long enough to place on your table like a runner. Glue daisies in matching or complimentary colors all along the length of the ribbon. You might also stitch matching yarn daisies onto short lengths of green elastic to use as napkin rings.

Tips & Warnings

• Vary the width of the cardboard to produce different sizes of daisies.

• Store daisies as if they were baked goods—in a sturdy box with paper between each layer; otherwise, they’re likely to get tangled with each other.

Resources

• Source for yarn