Fairy in a Jar
A fairy in a jar!
I'm going to share with you, how to make your own. :)
Unfortunately, I still don't have a camera. So there are no step by step photos, but there are finished item photos. Also If you can crochet, then the project is not all that hard.
This project uses the 3 Tiny mushrooms from my tiny mushroom pattern.
You will need
Clean jam jar (with label and subsequent stickiness removed)
Tissue paper (I used white and this pretty pink floral pattern I found in my local card shop)
Pva glue
old paint brush (that you don't mind getting all gluey)
Battery operated fairy lights, or tea light candle. (no real candles or naked flames)
A fairy silouette (i used tracing paper, google and a black felt tip. But you could just print one out onto tracing paper. Oh use tracing paper, so you don't have to cut out silly little holes!)
Scissors
1.25mm crochet hook
No8 or 10 crochet thread in light and dark green.
Sewng needle
Phew, think I got everything!
So to start, You want to do the messy bit, and the bit that days a couple days to dry, first. So get your pva, paintbrush and an old container (I used an old take away tub). You want to water your pva glue down slightly, so that it still gluey but thin enough that it wont tear the tissue paper.
Next cut your tissue paper into squares, around half the height of the jar. Next it's back to school, paper-mache the tissue paper to the inside of the jar. It will take quite a few layers. It needs to be thick enough that you don't see all the seams, but thin enough to see the lights. I held my jar up to the light every couple of layers to see whether you could see my seams or not. Leave to dry.
Next, the lid of your jar, crochet hook, light green thread,
You'll need your lid for a size guide.
Work a circle that is as big as your lid, using half treble stitches
for those who don't know how to make a circle,
mr 6
2HDc 6
(2HDc, HDc) x6
(2HDc, HDc 2)
(2HDc, HDc 3)
(2HDc, HDc 4) and so on
Once, your circle is big enough, stop increasing, BLO and HDc the same amount as stitches as your last row. So if that last round of your circle was 60 stitches then your next row will be 60 sitches. Work a couple more rows.
Place the jar lid on the jar then your green circle. Once your circle, is long enough to cover the depth of your jar lid, and covers the lip, Make a round with (HDc 4, DTr 2) all the way around, then go back to plain Hdc for one more round. We will be making a chain to tie the crochet lid to the jar later, and this gets thread through the 2 double trebles.
Next round should be (2Hdc, hdc) all the way around
Next round, (skip 1 st, Tr ch 1 Tr, Skip 1 st) all the way around.
The last round, In each ch 1 space (Dc,Hdc,Tr, Hdc, Dc) f/o and tidy up the tail.
Next I made a small green doily to go on top of the light green. Mine is about 2 inches in diameter. It is up to you whether or not to add it. But I'm sharing my pattern just in case.
Using the Dark green thread
Ch 6, join with a s/s
Ch 5, and into the ring crochet (Tr, ch 2) 5 times. Join the round with a s/s into the 3rd ch.
s/s into the 1st ch 2 space, and in that space (ch 3, tr, ch 2, 2 tr), then in each ch space around (2Tr, ch 2, 2Tr), join the round with a s/s into the 3rd ch.
s/s across into the ch 2 sp ch 3, 3Tr into the 1st ch space. *Ch 2, Tr between the 2nd and 3rd tr from previous round, ch 2, 4 Tr in ch 2 sp* repeat from * to * all the way around, join with a s/s into the 3rd ch.
s/s across into the 1st ch2 space. *(Dc,Htr,Tr DTr) in 1st ch space, (DTr,Tr,Htr,Dc) into 2nd ch sp, ch 5* repeat from * to * to the end of the round, join with a s/s into 1st st.
*ch 5, Dc between 2DTr of previous round, ch 5, Dc on top of Dc from previous round, 6 Tr in ch 5 sp* repeat from * to * all the way around, joint with a s/s. Flo
Sew The dark green top to the top of the light green top.
Then with your Dark Green thread, ch a length long enough to fit round your jar lid and tie up. Then in 2nd ch from hook Dc, and Dc in each ch across. F/o tidy all the tails. Now thread your chain through the 2Dtr you made in 5th to last round of the light green top.
Once threaded, we can make the 2 leaves and dew them to the chain.
The leaves are rather quick and easy.
Ch 7
Dc in 2nd ch from hook, then Htr in next ch, Tr in the next 2, Dtr, 8Dtr in the last chain. Continue round the leaf with Another Dtr, 2 more Tr, Htr, Dc and a s/s.
Make 2 of these and sew one to each end of the tie.
Lastly, arrange your mushrooms on the top, then sew them to lid, using the BLO round the bottom of the mushroom.
Finally, putting the light together. :)
Once your tissue paper has dried, and your happy that you can't see your seams too much, grab your fairy silhouette. If you don't have a printer, then use tracing paper and very lightly draw on top of your monitor. If you have a printer then find a silhouette you'd like to use and print it onto tracing paper. cut around your silhouette, and glue to the inside of your jar.
If your using fairy lights, I'm using those battery operated fairy lights, which are on a bendable wire. So I grabbed a toilet roll tube, cut it down the middle, and used tape to make the tube small enough to fit the lights on, and inside my jar.
Next I wrapped the lights around the tube, put the tube (with the lights) inside my jar, removed the tube; turned the lights on a popped the battery pack inside with the lights.
Then its just a case of put the lid on then your mushroom top, tie the green tie cord.And your done, your own fairy in a jar light,
I hope you've enjoyed this project as much as I have.
If you have enjoyed it, then please share, pin and tweet this project away.
Many thanks
Layla
