Embroidery Hoop Dream Catcher
Unusual Native American Art
The easiest way to make a quick dream catcher is to use a piece of fabric. Fabric stores feature large selections of printed cloth that has a Native American scene. Choose cloth with pictures of wolves, tepees or even a riverbed at dusk.
Lay the embroidery hoop on the fabric and draw around it, on the backside. Cut the circle out but make it about two inches larger, all the way around, then than the drawing. Lay the piece of fabric on the embroidery hoop and slide the other one over it.
Create fringe to go around the hoop by cutting a piece of wide material to be long enough to encircle the hoop. The piece can be leather or another material but should be especially wide. Use hot glue to attach this piece to the outside embroidery hoop. When you do, seam it at the bottom. The piece should be attached so that, when looking at the front of the picture, the excess leather is facing you.
Cut from the edge of the leather to the hoop to make the fringe. Do this all the way around the hoop. Take a piece of folded twine, glue the ends to the backside of the hoop, and hang the dream catcher on the wall.
Make a different dream catcher by cutting lengths of yarn or twine and laying them across the hoop. Create the look you want by the way you lay the twine and how many you use. When you're finished, slide the large hoop in place, then glue on the leather piece and cut it to make the fringe. Choose a wooden shape, set of feathers, ceramic piece, or another image to mount to the middle of the cris-crossed twine pieces. If you have none of those things you can simply cut a steer head or tepee from a piece of leather or fabric and glue in place.
Embroidery hoops have a metal hardware piece that allows you to loosen or tighten the pressure between the two round bands. Make the hardware piece the top of the new dream catcher and conceal it by gluing on feathers, beads or other craft supplies. The embroidery hoop dream catcher is much easier to make than traditional dream catchers but looks just as nice!
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- See a picture of a much different dream catcher here: www.thriftyfun.com/tf51292367.tip.html
- Use an embroidery hoop to make a unique dream catcher.
- Cut a circle of cloth that features Native American images and attach it to the hoops.
- Cut a long, wide strip of leather to make the fringe that goes around the outside of the hoop.