Wonderful Stash-busting Ornament Idea...:-)

[Tracey4610]

Walking at the mall yesterday w/ dd and dh, we passed a window display of some really cute bulky-knit items. There were Christmas trees standing next to the mannequins, w/ nothing other than white lights and balls of yarn!I started :laughrollrolling (pun intended ) and showed dh, who . That's when I said, "Hey, at least you know there's a reason I keep a stash!" (FYI, no balls of yarn were hurt in this display...the outer end was knotted and a loop of ribbon attached in order to hang them from the trees..,)

[angelfire]

I don't think that my DH would allow that...but how cute...I think we could all have miniature trees.

[Tracey4610]

Mind you, I forgot to mention that these were about 8" in diameter!!

[JoBug]

That is too cuter! I would have loved to see it, and the look on your and dh;s faces!!

[BarbaraJean]

Walking at the mall yesterday w/ dd and dh, we passed a window display of some really cute bulky-knit items. There were Christmas trees standing next to the mannequins, w/ nothing other than white lights and balls of yarn!I started :laughrollrolling (pun intended ) and showed dh, who . That's when I said, "Hey, at least you know there's a reason I keep a stash!" (FYI, no balls of yarn were hurt in this display...the outer end was knotted and a loop of ribbon attached in order to hang them from the trees..,)

 

 

I saw a store that did that too! It looked very nice, actually. I can't remember what store it was though. It wasn't a craft store.

[MLLORF]

In our town we have a Festival of Trees which benefits the Pediatric Department in the local hospital. Mary Maxim is one of the major contributors to the Festival of Trees and always do a nice big display with knitted/crochet items, etc. This year they had a 'main' tree and then a couple smaller trees around that had yarn hanging on them, not a lot just a couple strands draped on them. If I remember correctly a snowman (or something) was knitting. If I'd a thought I would of taken a picture and posted here.

[KateCrochets]

I think an 8" yarn ball might be too heavy for most branches But if you got varying sized foam balls and just wound enough yarn to cover all of the foam and look like a yarn ball, well, that would work very well In fact, it reminds me of this ornament: http://members.aol.com/crochettalk2/croorn.html

 

We have a tree that is "the crochet tree" - all balls and crochet - but I don't think my husband would go for yarn ball ornaments.

[Tracey4610]

Kate, I just saw that yesterday right after I posted this thread! Isn't it adorable? I may just have to make some of those for next year!

[Phoenix]

Oooh, it's a good thing I don't put up a tree or I would definetly be making those instead of making regular things!