Yarn Spheres

I love Pinterest!!! So when I came across these yarn spheres, I just had to incorporate them into the teal wedding decor somehow .

Yarn Spheres

To make your own yarn spheres, here is what you need:-
* Balloons
* Yarn (in color of your choice)
* Glue or paper mache
 
Step 1: Blow up your balloons and tie the ends securely. It's very important to make sure the tie is tight.

Step 2: In a container, make a thick paste of water and glue with more glue than water.

 
 Step 3: Soak your yarn in the paste

Step 4: Squeeze excess paste from the yarn as you wrap it around the balloon. Start wrapping vertically then around the balloon making sure to fill in as much empty space as possible.

Step 5: Hang the balloons in a well ventilated area to dry. Give them about 24 hours to dry completely. Make sure you place something on the floor (plastic trash bag, turp) to prevent the dripping paste from ruining your floors.

Pic below shows why it is important to tie the ends of the balloons securely. The balloon deflated and the yarn sphere was ruined.

 
If this happens, wet the yarn again in the glue/water paste and wrap it around another balloon.

Step 6: Once the spheres dry, gently push the balloon away from the yarn. Some people coat the balloon with vaseline before wrapping the yarn to make this step easier.

Step 7: Pop a hole in the balloon to deflate it.

Step 8: Enjoy your yarn spheres :)

Below is the final centerpiece setup the bride approved of. I placed yellow and orange silk flowers into the yarn spheres to go along with the teal/orange color scheme.

I liked the way the yarn sphere looks through the colored water in the vase.

Centerpiece - vase with tissue paper hydrangeas, yarn pompoms, 

tealight candles, yarn sphere with silk flowers  

At the reception some of the centerpieces had the tissue paper hydrangeas and others just had a floating candle.
 

Centerpiece with floating candle. Image courtesy of Nxt Lvl Imagery

Yellow pompom. Image courtesy of Nxt Lvl Imagery

Image courtesy of Nxt Lvl Imagery 

Costs:
Yarn - $3.00
Glue - 3 bottles @ 2.00 each - $6.00 total

Total - $9.00 for 20 yarn spheres (45 cents per sphere).

It beats buying them at a store. Here is proof...