today on Rhys Dixon it's time to start this year's new Christmas tree and we're going to start with a pom pom Garland hey everybody its Teresa with re6 ENCOM so every year or so I create a new Christmas tree because I'm a little bit nutty like that and this year we're going to have eight Christmas trees up throughout my house and I've made all the ornaments you can find most of the ornaments here on my youtube channel but this year I really struggled to find a theme that I was really excited about I had all these ideas but nothing was just really motivating me so I went onto Pinterest and I just started researching everything that I liked and kind of used that to coalesce a whole theme that I was going to work with so this year's themed tree is a vintage 60s Christmas tree so if you think 60s you might think like peace signs and psychedelic you know that's not the direction we're going we are going a little closer to madmen a little closer to vintage traditional something that you know your grandparents had in their house so we're going to start with this pump pump Garland because if you've watched my video on how to decorate a tree you know you always start with the garland so this one is a little bit of a hassle because it keeps trying to tangle up but if you've ever done a popcorn garland then you can do this it's the same basic principle and I would recommend that you learn from I just you can just count on me to go to big every time you can just set your watch by me going too big so this is a lot because as you can probably see as I'm messing with that it loves twists on itself and get tangled up into a great big mess so if you keep your Garland's like arm's width and maybe just about yeah just about there's a really good width because it's big enough to go around the widest point of the tree um and then you can just put another one next to it nobody has to see where it stops and starts but you don't have to deal with a great big tangled mess so I just made mine big in part because like I said I can't help myself but also because I've done stuff like this a lot and so um I'm well practiced at but if you are not and especially if this is some of your first try tying these kind of knots do yourself a favor I'm going small so don't don't get distracted by all of the stuff I'm throwing around here aim smaller you will thank me okay so here's how we're going to start all you really need for supplies are a whole mess of pom-poms a needle and thread the thread you use is important because you need something that's thin enough to allow you to thread it on a needle but thick enough so that when you tie a couple knots in it it'll be the knot will be big enough to hold the pom-pom in place so you really want something that's like a yarn or like this crewel embroidery thread you can find this in the aisle in the embroidery aisle and they look like big Hank's of rope that typically are on display close to the embroidery thread but this is much thicker and a lot stronger you really want something that can hold up to the branches if it does get tangled something that's not gonna whoa it's not going to snap on you seems fine this is so you thread your needle on it and then you need to start by tying your first knot so this is just a square knot if you have ever been in the Girl Scouts you are all set you know exactly what to do but you're just gonna cross the loose end over onto itself okay so you're crossing and then you go over and through like so you've made this knot before you know you have you just didn't know what you were making okay so then you cross it again the other way and if you don't cross either the way it's really not the end of the world for this particular project and you want to have that second knot land directly on top of the first knot because that's what will make it big enough so that the pom-pom won't slide around so in order to do that I have my first knot like right where those threads cross that's where I want my first my first knot to be oh just defect am I getting my fingers involved okay so I'm going to use my fingernails to just kind of push that knot as I pull the threads so that I can direct it exactly where I want it to land right on top of that second knot and now that's big enough to hold that pom-pom in place so then you take your needle and we thread it through your pom-pom now if you squish the pom-pom you can feel a little bit of a firm Center that's where you want to aim for because if you just go through the fluff then the needle will pop right out so you want that firm Center so that will hold the thread in place and then you just thread it on your thread I already added a whole bunch a whole mess to this and I've been hard at work you can see with that first knot you tied you just bring this pom-pom all the way to the end and it rests on that knot and then to keep it from traveling up the thread the other direction you tie another knot right at the other side of it so that it's just kind of squished between those two knots so that that pom-pom isn't going anywhere so then you just do that over and over and over and over again now the first few knots you tie are pretty easy because you just got the short end of the thread but once you're like this it's a lot to keep track of so let me show you my secret you take your hands and wrap the thread around it like that and then cross and kind of spread your fingers out to create a big hole and then you'll pull all of your pom-poms through my son okay turns out this is kind of hard to do backwards so that you can see it so if I'm making it look complicated I promise it's really not it's just a little bit fiddly and like I said I'm trying to do it without looking at it so that you can see it so okay let me try one more time just to make sure that I'm really showing you correctly so I'm going to take all of my garland pom-poms here and hold them in one hand cross those two threads and then you just shove all the Garland's through that that great big hole you made with your hands and then make it so that they don't get hung up on that I just got to get one more through there there we go and then you pull that tight then you do that again and again and again and I promise you when you're actually looking at it and not trying to do a backwards it'll be super easy I just did a ton of these while I was watching television so after a while it just becomes rote so let me make that a little bigger I'll just pull all those through again there you go so if you're getting stuck just make your hole bigger and it can help to just like bunch up everything that's already done in one hand like just bunch it like that you'll make a tangled mess but you'll only have to untangle it once when you're done remember to get that second knot right on top of the first one like so and then you bring your pom-pom down and tie another one right there so like I said over and over and over again until you have the garland looking just the way you want now this color in particular is so bold on the tree I'm going to be doing Garland's that are white pom-poms as long as along with the red ones to try to make it like fun and interesting and not just like wow that's a lot of red so I'm gonna be mixing it up with all kinds of other things as well but I love that the tone of this sets for the tree as really fun and retro and traditional you can't get much more traditional than pom-poms I just love them and I think that this is going to look gorgeous on the tree I cannot wait to show you what else I have in store so be sure and subscribe so that you don't miss anything for this fantastic vintage 60s tree made with all modern ingredients subscribe to the channel I said that part already helped me out by sharing these videos that is such a huge help to me you guys don't even know and we'll see you next time bye bye