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Ornaments! For the tree, for the neighbors, or for the kids! Make as many as you can! They are easy and so much fun.
Materials: Caron simply soft yarn – white and black, red size 10 thread, 4 buttons, 2 googly eyes, and needle, thread, and glue gun.
Body: White – make two
Base: Make chain until measures 3 yards long.
Step 1: Wrap ch around 2 fingers
Step 2: Insert hook along fingers and pull another strand of yarn through the center of all the loops.
Step 3: carefully take loops off finger and take the two ends of the yarn strand and tightly tie into a knot. Hide sting.
Head: White
Base: Make chain until measures 1.5 yards long.
Step 1: Wrap CH around 1 finger.
Step 2: Insert hook along fingers and pull another strand of yarn through the center of all the loops.
Step 3: Carefully take loops off finger and take the two ends of the yarn strand and tightly tie into a knot. Hide sting.
Hat: Black
Base: ch3
Rnd1: 7 SC in 1st Ch made, Sl to 1st SC made, Ch 1, turn.
Rnd2: *SC, 2 SC in next sp, rep from * around, SL to 1st SC made, Ch 1, turn.
Rnd 3-5: Sc around, Sl to 1st SC made, Ch 1, turn.
Rnd 6: 2 SC in each sp around, SL to 1st SC made, Ch 1, turn.
You should now have 4 separate pieces.
Take a needle and black thick thread and attach to center of black hat and run thread down the centers of each motif and back up to the hat, tie off and hide string.
Scarf: Red
Cut ten strands of size 10 thread and gather all tog. Tie knots at both ends, wrap around the snowman neck and glue down with glue gun.
Optional: the face is optional, I like it without the face, but if you wish glue 4 buttons to the front of the snowman along with 2 googly eyes, I glued a small piece of orange thread to the face for the nose but again this is optional.
