We make mertsishor with our own hands

The holiday of Martisor, associated with the advent of Spring, is popular in Eastern Europe. Usually on March 1, friends and relatives give each other red and white ornaments that are attached to clothing and worn until the time when the trees bloom. Then these products are hung on the branches. Such a souvenir can be bought in the store, but most often it is done by yourself. It is not difficult to make masterzor with your own hands. Here are a few ways. Even children can make souvenirs from paper or threads.

Ways to create a souvenir

There are several legends about Martisor. They tell a little differently about how Spring struggles with Winter, which does not want to retreat. Mythical character meets the snowdrop, blossoming through the thaw in the snowdrift and at the cost of his blood and life saves the freezing flower. That's why when creating a souvenir two colors are used - white, as a symbol of snow and red, denoting blood.

You can make masterzor with your own hands as follows:

• From threads in the form of pom-poms, brushes or pupae.
• Crochet.
• In the technique of paper applications.
• Using quilling elements.
• Weave macrame.
• Run out of the beads.
• Sewn from fleece or other material.

The most important thing is to observe the color scheme, making elements (usually two) of red and white colors. Both parts are joined together by a string consisting of a weave of threads of these two shades. Instead of red, sometimes pink is used, and you can also see souvenirs, where an additional green tone is taken to perform the leaves, because often a gift for a spring holiday is done in the form of flowers.

Quilling technique

Using this method, you can make a very beautiful mertsishor with your own hands made of paper. You need two sheets - white and red. If you perform flowers, you can also take green for the decoration of stems and twigs. The manufacturing process will be as follows:

1. Cut the paper into strips about 5 mm wide.
2. Using a toothpick, a skewer or a knitting needle, thread the strips on the tool and perform the desired number of elements of different shapes. The tips are fixed with glue.
3. Connect the details in the form of a flat or three-dimensional decoration.

Such a product will look impressive as a suspension, brooch, volumetric composition or even a whole panel.

Application

If the previous method seems too complicated and time consuming for you, and you need to make souvenirs quickly, you can simply make the märtsichor with your own hands from paper by simply cutting out two identical shapes, for example, in the form of a flower, from a white and red leaf, and connect them to a ribbon or rope. Even more spectacular will look like a paper part, if it is made in the form of a relief or a three-dimensional object. The easiest way is to paste the cut parts to the base. By the way, in this case it is good to use velvet, textured paper or slightly metallized, mother of pearl. As a material for the application take even fleece. This is a fabric whose edges do not crumble. When it is used, it is allowed not only to staple the elements, but also to glue together.

Use the thread

This is the easiest way to create a spring gift. With the options offered, even children can cope. Make mertsishor with your own hands of thread can be the following methods:

• In the form of flat circles, wrapped in yarn.
• Making volume pom-poms.
• Gathering brushes.
• Connecting the thread in the form of anthropoid pupae.

The first option is the simplest. You only need a pair of round cardboard blanks with a hole in the center. A template in the form of a ring will do. The initial shape is wound with threads. It is also good to use narrow satin ribbons. It is necessary to firmly fix the beginning and the tip of the thread. The two elements can be joined together by means of a fabricated two-color interlaced flagellum.

Pompons are made using a similar technology; for only one part, two identical blanks are taken, and after wrapping the yarn, it is cut along the perimeter of the circle and the product is tied neatly in the center. It turns out a shaggy ball.

To make the brushes, the threads are wound not on a round, but on a rectangular pattern along the narrow side. The completed workpiece is connected by a thread from one edge, and on the other - it is cut. Then, the "head" of the brush is formed by bandaging the resulting yarn bundle at a small distance from the edge. From the resulting brush, if you continue to create the form, you can get a doll figure in a stylized skirt or trousers.

Martisor with her own hands of beads

If you have a fishing line and a special needle and you are fond of this technique, weave a souvenir in the form of balls, flowers, pupae, hearts, bows, twigs - in a word, in this way, as fantasy tells you. Objects can be either flat or solid. You can connect them in the form of a suspension, a brooch or even a bracelet. By the way, it's beautiful to perform entirely of beads or glass beads of the appropriate shades and complemented by voluminous hanging figures of any configuration.

Martisor with her own hands crocheted

If you own this tool, then make a spring souvenir is not difficult. Perform the details can be in the form of balls, tying a bead or filling the form with a sintepon. It is easy to tie flowers according to any scheme. Original mertsishor with their own hands can turn out if you associate two characters of the corresponding shades, for example, little men.

So, it's quite easy to make mertsishor with your own hands. The main thing is to have at hand a material of two colors - red and white. The choice of technology depends on how much time you are willing to spend on the performance of the gift and whether you want to learn new types of needlework.