- You will need:
36 cinnamon
sticks, each one approximately 4" long
One
large orange
2 apples
30"
piece of crochet cotton
Needle
with a large eye
White
glue or hot glue gun and glue sticks
How to make your garland:
Slice the apples and the orange into 1/8" slices. Lay the pieces on a baking sheet - do not overlap.
Place them in a 250 degree oven for about 30 minutes. Turn the slices over and bake for another 30 minutes or until they are dried out. Watch so that they do not turn brown. Cool completely.
Form twelve cinnamon stick triangles. For each triangle, arrange three cinnamon sticks into a triangle, overlapping the sticks quite a bit so that the hole in the middle is very small, about 1/4". (You will string the cinnamon sticks up by passing the crochet cotton through this hole. If the hole is too big, the triangles will flop around.) Glue the sticks in place. Let Dry.
Make a small loop in one end of the crochet cotton and knot it. String the needle through the other end.
Make the garland: Start by passing the needle through one of the apple slices, then an orange slice, another apple, then a cinnamon triangle. Keep repeating this pattern until all the fruit and cinnamon triangles have been used up.
Tie a knot in the end leaving some crochet cotton left over to form a loop. Loop the end back to the knot and tie it.
Hang your garland by the loops.
