Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree!

Having scoured Yeovil for tall cones, Andreas came up trumps offering me the remaining two that had been on a shelf for years, unsold.  The staff were intrigued as a man had been in a few minutes before asking for exactly the same thing! They wondered if there had been a demo on the TV...I bought the unbroken one and explained the craft idea I had. They want to see a photo of the finished result. Off to The Flower Shop next as it seemed the obvious place... The girl serving was "allergic to the dry Oasis" and not allowed to touch them, so my number was left and at some point the contents of a large box above our heads will be peered into hopefully revealing more of the same. I shall await the call!

So this is what I've been up to:

The pins are only needed at the start to place the wool into position. I can't remember where I got the wool from, either a charity shop or someone was turning out their stash of wool and passed me a bag, it's exciting when that happens!

Slowly wind the wool up the cone, trying to keep it as close to the previous layer as you can. At first I was just going to do one layer, but it didn't look as effective as you could see the oasis through the gaps.  It may have looked better if it had been green instead of grey.

You can see the difference with a double thickness, coming down the other way once you have reached the tip.  I left the tip bare initially as I couldn't wind the wool around.  Later I found a small length of yarn and pinned it into position.  I love the sparkly bits in the wool, perfect for that snowy effect!

I bought some artificial berries on a wire, cut them off and simply poked them into the oasis.

I used the wires from the berry stalks to make a star of sorts....cut it to shorten it into the shape...and voila!