DIY: the greenest dreamcatcher

Enjoy fabulous, hard-working plants at night as well

When it’s so hot that the sparrows are trying to throw themselves off the roof into the swimming pool and all you need at night is a loose sheet to cover you, you don’t want to be messing around at bedtime. You want to close your eyes and step straight into a perfect fantasy world. And you can! Make this plant-covered dreamcatcher and then fly over sweet fields of flowers, sit down to a dinner of zero-calorie cakes and chat to your idols. It really is too hot to be struggling through a nightmare. 

Dreamcatcher plants - Thejoyofplants.co.uk

A dreamcatcher ensures that drift off to the right dream and helps ward off nightmares - and this stylish specimen ensures you’ll be even happier in the morning. Open your eyes to be greeted by this fantastic, hard-working, beautifully scented work of art over your bed. 

Required for the plant dreamcatcher

  • Different leafs from for example fern or ivy
  • Fabric
  • Wool
  • Embroidery hoop
  • Wooden beads
  • String
  • Piece of copper tubing
  • Copper wire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to make it

Step 1: Cut the fabric into strips. We’ve used strips that are 140cm long and 2cm wide.

Step 2: Fray the strips a little so they look a bit more aged.

Step 3: Tie them onto the embroidery hoop.

Step 4: Trim them neatly at the bottom.

Step 5: Drape strands of wool over the fabric for decoration and trim them neatly as well.

Step 6: Wind the string around the embroidery hoop in order to be able to hang the hoop up.

Step 7: Hang the beads and the piece of copper tubing on the string.

Step 8: Arrange the leaves on the embroidery hoop and secure them with copper wire.

And now get to sleep in order to test whether it’s working! Sweet dreams!

 

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