This is how I made all 6 of my Mini Trees. I made mine with all solid colors (red, green, yellow, blue, purple, and pink). The article below came from this page on the Planet Christmas website.
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Here's a close-up of one of the trees. Each tree has three, 100 light strings of multi-colored lights. The black wire wrapped around the bottom is an eight foot power cord.
The trick to building these things is to have a lot of four inch tie wraps, black preferably.
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Here is the raw easel as bought from the hobby or floral store. Note: you have to shorten two legs so they are all the same length. Bolt cutters work fine. |
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The first layer of lights should be dense. Every place the wire crosses the easel, secure it with a tie wrap... this is needed to hold the lights in place when you wrap more lights on top. |
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With the first layer secured, continue wrapping the tree until all three strings are done. Secure the light strings at strategic locations with more tie wraps. This is needed so the lights will stay put when stacking and un-stacking them. |
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Cut off the tie wrap tails, attach a power cord and you're done! |
