I have taken to making baubles form felt and fabric, knowing that if a certain waggy tails gets too close, they won't break. Our oldest decs go back 30 years to first visits to continental Xmas markets when I changed from a "tasteful" low key colour themed tree to one that is all red, gold and cream. Been collecting ever since and now sewing them as I like there to be something new each year and 99.99% of all the commercial baubles are made in China now.
Anyway - question. How do you trail your lights round the tree? I usually do mine loosely spiralled down and round from top to bottom but wonder if I should try up and down from top to bottom in a sort of zig zag till the tree is well lit? Decorating it tomorrow if all goes well.
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I normally start from the top of the tree and spiral down towards the base and the plug. Periodically I stand back and squint at the tree, even better if done when it’s quite dark, to check there is an even distribution.
How is it that however carefully I try to put the lights away, the next year they emerge from the box a tabled mess? I had a good mind to just lob them at the tree this year.
I start at the top and zig zag them downwards. I’ve used two boxes this year, one box for the top half, then continued from half way downwards with the second box. After I’d finished, I found an old Christmas card in the decorations box, where I’d made a helpful note to myself, saying what lights I’d used last year. Then obviously put it, not so helpfully, in the bottom of the box where I didn’t see it!
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Anyway - question. How do you trail your lights round the tree? I usually do mine loosely spiralled down and round from top to bottom but wonder if I should try up and down from top to bottom in a sort of zig zag till the tree is well lit? Decorating it tomorrow if all goes well.
After I’d finished, I found an old Christmas card in the decorations box, where I’d made a helpful note to myself, saying what lights I’d used last year. Then obviously put it, not so helpfully, in the bottom of the box where I didn’t see it!