Bed Spring Fleece Christmas Tree

(my daughter said this looks like those things in a car wash!)

I saved some springs from an old old mattress

last year to try to do something with them.

I have several ideas, this being the first.

I'm not really sure that I like it though.......

I had this bright green fleece leftover from a project years ago.

It was actually a small, cheap blanket that I cut up.

I started with keeping the "branches" sparse on the tree,

but it looked quite silly, so I added more.

Had they been thinner cotton plaid fabric,

it would've looked better (I've seen bed spring trees like that).

I do have that type of fabric in my stash, 

but wanted to try to work with this fleece.

Honestly, I wanted to make loops of the fleece

and attach it to a cone shaped piece of foam.

That sort of thing can't be found locally though,

so I decided to experiment with the bed springs.

Simply cut strips of fabric and tie a basic knot around the 

wire, alternating the direction that you tie it in.

Hot glue on pom poms, colorful buttons, etc to decorate.

I used plastic beads since I didn't have any

pom poms in my craft supplies stash. 

The star on top was made with two pieces of paper punched

card stock glued back to back with a strip of card stock between.

The strip is wrapped around the top of the wire to keep the star in

place and standing upright. 

I had thought about making a bunch of these to take to 

our annual family get together, possibly taking pom poms

so each family could decorate a tree, Then I thought better of it,

that could be a messy project so I think I'll skip this silly idea. 

Thanks for looking =)