How To Make Your Christmas Tree Even More Beautiful!

December 7, 2016

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Awhile back when Sophia and I were shopping, we saw Christmas trees at Macy’s. I noticed one of the trees had a ribbon treatment, which I had never seen before. Multiple pieces of ribbon were layered together and they were festooned on the Christmas tree. The end result looked rich and gorgeous!

When I finally got the chance to go shopping, I found this beautiful swirled gold pattern on this red ribbon at Sam’s. The spool had 50 yards of 2-1/2-inch wired ribbon and was only $6.95 a spool. What a deal!

You will want to use wired ribbon for this project.

Shopping For The Christmas Tree Ribbons And Picks

With the ribbon in mind, I ended up at Michael’s and their deal of the day was 70% off their Christmas picks! Although the remaining decorations were pretty much picked over, I found the gold glittered picks, which seemed perfect to repeat the swirled pattern. The glittery red poinsettias didn’t look like much all glommed and folded together. After picking one up and manipulating the glittery leaves to look like a poinsettia, it really looked pretty. Ten of each of these went into the shopping cart.

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Making The Ribbon Lengths For The Christmas Tree

After a little research, I found that these swirls of clustered ribbon were created by cutting lengths of ribbon and stapling them together. In order for the ribbons to open up, each needed to be a little longer than the one cut before.

The first piece I made was cut about 36″ long. Using that ribbon as a guide, I cut the next ribbon about 2″ longer, the next 2″ longer than the one before, and so on. Four ribbons were cut in total. (After making that one, I decided 1″ longer was preferable to me. The rest of the ribbons were cut with a 1″ difference.)

First one down, I ended up deciding to make the ribbons a little longer, about 42″ for the first, 43″ for the second, 44″ for the third, etc. After all, the lower part of the tree is larger than the top. Instead of using four ribbon pieces, cut five pieces of ribbon and staple them together, lining up the cut ribbon at both ends.

The first one I made, I overlapped the ends and covered up the cut ends. Waste of time! Not necessary and kind of a pain to do, too. Hide the stapled ends by tucking them in between the branches.

The first ribbon cluster starts at the top of the tree and winds and loops.

The next ribbon cluster starts close to the first, tucks, loops, and is artfully fashioned around the tree. Then, separate the ribbons slightly to show a little more of the other ribbon edges. I went back and tweaked the ribbons, sliding the ribbons slightly to show more here and there.

The End Result

Doesn’t this look gorgeous? Just think about a single ribbon being in the place of this. It wouldn’t have near the impact, would it?

Having draped ribbon on many of our trees before, this is definitely the most beautiful treatment. Just so you know, it took almost the entire roll of 50 yards of ribbon for the ribbon clusters.

Now, add the ornaments to the tree. This ribbon treatment and the picks along with the lights are stunning!

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