12 Days of Christmas Day 3 Simple Snowflakes

I sure had fun coming up with my day 3 project. I love the challenge of creating something with parameters. My self-imposed guidelines for Christmas decor this year are to create items with supplies that I mostly already have or can find, to create items that don't have to be stored for the year, and to have what I make fall loosely into my simple, natural, boho style that I am choosing for Christmas this year.

These fuzzy snowflakes fit all my criteria and are super easy to create. 

I had no real plan when I started, but knew I wanted something that looked like a snowflake and not too much like a dream catcher. I am typically pretty strict with making any snowflake I create six sided. My Latin teacher in high school taught us how to make 6 sided paper snowflakes. He was adamantly opposed to four or eight sided flakes since they always have six sides in nature. I couldn't tell you one Latin word, but I remembered the snowflake lesson.

Using thrift store embroidery hoops (the other half of the hoops from THIS PROJECT) and a skein of chunky, fuzzy yarn I created a couple different styles.

For the larger boho snowflake I slip knotted six approximately two foot long yarn pieces around a small, wood circle I had--I think a curtain ring. You could use a washer, a key ring, a small embroidery hoop. I then set the small ring in the center of my largest hoop and took a strand from two different slip knotted pieces and tied them to and around the embroidery hoop. I tied them in the back and cut off the excess yarn. If I wanted to keep these together longer or give as a gift I think I would put a few dots of hot glue on the knots.

I then took a separate piece of yarn and tied it near the top of the other knot and then wrapped it around each knot to create the hexagon. 

For the second, smaller snowflake I used one long length of the fuzzy yarn (about three arm spans worth). I tied it on the hoop, leaving some extra to hang it from. I wrapped it across the hoop and then wrapped the yarn around the hoop edge four times before wrapping it across the hoop again.

I finished the looping around the hoop and then tied it off. I took a separate piece of yarn and tied it around the snowflake "arms" to create the hexagon. 

I have more mantel decorating to do, but I am happy with how these look hanging on my wood card table art. I found this woven star, snowflake at the thrift store for 99 cents and added it. I will hang it in my kitchen window after Christmas. 

These are so easy and there are lots of different ways you could tie them and add to them. They would be cute made with baking twine or fun Christmas ribbon. A whole snowstorm worth of flakes would be great hanging in a window. I will disassemble them after Christmas, save the hoops for another project and use the yarn for something new.