Woolen Holiday....

An under-the-weather boy and I spent yesterday cooped up in our croupy incubator of a house.

Our day of popsicles and soup and naps was just not exciting my sick one. So to break up the staleness that we were both experiencing, we decided to get out some more decorations from the attic.

We set a few on the table with the Advent tree including a beaded gold cone shaped tree. I noticed that the metal of the tree was rusted in spots.  It was tarnished and flaking...What the heck?!?!?!?

Hmmm, I thought and then I found the culprit...it was wet from when my snow globe burst from freezing in the box that held them all in the attic.

I toyed with the idea of covering it with fabric but I didn't want the sharp edges of the tarnished metal to hurt anyone.  I remembered that I had bought some wool roving a while back at The Yarn Store in hopes that I would learn how to drop spindle spin.

Needless to say, the roving was still in it's pretty little braid.

I knew exactly what I was going to do to fix our little tree.

I made a thin rope of the wool, tying the ends together until I thought that it was long enough to cover the whole tree.  I then started at the bottom, tying a knot to the metal.

Then I began winding it around the cone.

Until I reached the top

where the rusting was the worst.

Then to finish it off, I tucked the raw end into one of the wound loops and placed it on the window sill.

Now our little tree is plush with wool and..... the best part is that no one in our house is at risk of receiving a tetanus shot as a Christmas present!

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How do you use wool during the Holidays?