Tips For Girls

DIY: Dream Catcher

Quote of the Day: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Usually when we sleep we don’t have any control over what we dream, but legend has it that dream catchers can help keep bad dreams away. It’s an ancient tradition that might help you sleep sounder and focus your good thoughts into good dreams. It’ll be difficult to find the original sinew and willow bark to make a traditional dream catcher, but there are plenty of modern alternatives. Read below to find out how to make your own!:

Materials:

-an embroidery hoop about 6 inches in diameter

-thread, yarn or twine

-feathers

-beads

-felt, a small rectangle

-glue

Instructions: 

1)Take your hoop and either wrap it with thread or yarn to cover it. You can also leave it as it is if you prefer to do so.

2) Take a long piece of thread and tie it onto the edge of your hoop. Then, about an inch and a half from that first knot wrap the thread over the hoop again.

3) Put the thread between the loop you’ve made and the hoop. Almost like a little twist of the thread. After you've put it through the loop, pull the thread taut.

4) Again, about an inch and a half away, make another stitch to the hoop. It should look just like the one you made before.

5) Keep going! The same stitch is repeated on the entire dream catcher so making it is a breeze!

6) Once you get to the end of the first circle of stitches (meaning that you’re back to where you started knotting the thread), use the first line of stitches as your anchor instead of the hoop and keep stitching away!

7) Make sure that the loop stitch of the second cirlce ties at the middle of the anchor string. That will pull the thread just right to make the dream catcher look like a web. If the beads you’d like to use fit onto your thread or yarn add them wherever you like in between stitches.

8) Once you get to the center, knot the thread to one of the stitches and leave some length to the thread. This will be used to attach the feathers. If the beads you’d like to use do not fit onto your thread or yarn take smaller thread and sew them into some of the stitching.  

9) Take the long end thread, your feathers, a small rectangle of felt and your glue. What you’re doing now is gluing the feathers to the thread. Then you will wrap where they meet with the felt. A dab of glue should be enough to join all those together.

10) Attach a final loop to the top of your dream catcher so you can hang it above your bed aaannnndddd......

11) ......Have sweet dreams! :)

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You get to decide the next chapter!

Should I do:

a) How To: School Guide

b) Fun Stuff To Do With Your Friends

c) Creating a Hair Care Regimen (+ My Personal Hair Care Routine)

d)) The first person to comment gets to nominate a topic for me to do :) (This doesn't necessarily have to be the first commenter, just the first person who comments a topic) I'll add it to the list and readers can choose from this chapter as well.

Comment your choice below!

QOTD- What do you want to be when you grow up?

I want to be a professional dancer/ choreographer, a fashion designer or an author. If those don't work out my back up plan is to be a lawyer or a journalist :)

Well, I hope you guys liked this chapter! I have a lot of ideas in store for this book so stay tuned! I also have other works coming soon: a 5sos preference book, two teen fiction romances and I'm rewriting a book that I started when I was 12/13.

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Till next time beauties! xoxo~QuiQui

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