St. Patricks Day - Cute Craft. Oh and it uses a re-purposed Zipper!!!!

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

Top of the Morning to you! Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone. I know it's early but I wanted you to have time to make this craft I found on Craftaholics Anonymous!

How To Make a Shamrock from a Zipper

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supplies: 14″ green zipper, felt, rhinestone, pin blank, fray check/lighter/clear nail polish

tools: scissors, sewing machine, hot glue

1. Zipper, rhinestone, felt, and pin blank are included in the craft kit.
2. Sew a Gathering Stitch by lengthening your stitch length to the longest and do not back stitch at the beginning or end. And leave the threads long.
3. Pulling one string, gather your zipper.
4. You’ll want to gather the zipper until it circles into a shape like a slinky.

5. Start at one end and curl around putting the end behind. My loop measures about 1″.

6. Put a dot of hot glue behind the loop to hold in place.

7. Continue twisting the zipper around and create 2 more loops and hot glue in place. {your shamrock is starting to take shape}

8. Trim off the excess zipper to create a stem for your shamrock. My stem is about .75″ long.

9. Apply fray check or clear nail polish to the raw edge of the stem. You could also use a candle to lightly singe the ends.

10. Flip the shamrock over and trim off the extra zipper length.

11. Cut a small circle of felt to be about .75″ in diameter and hot glue to the back of the shamrock. Make sure that none of the felt shows from the front. Glue the pin blank on top of the felt.

12. Glue the rhinestone in on the front and you’re done!