DIY Lace Twinkle Lights

Twinkle lights can bring an immediate sense of warmth and joy to a room like no other. I love to adorn every room with them when it comes times for the holidays — and I’ve been known to drape some here and there even when the onset of winter season is way off in the distance.

Today I’m combining twinkle lights with another one of my decor loves — lace — for a beautiful decoration that’s perfect for this time of year. Here’s how to make your own lace twinkle lights!

Lace twinkle lights DIY

Materials: Water balloons, lace fabric, fabric stiffener, petroleum jelly, scissors, and a needle or pin.

1. First, Cut your lace fabric into pieces or strips — they can be as long, short, wide, or narrow as you like. Try a couple different sizes and shapes, and see what works best for you.Lace twinkle lights DIY

2. Blow up your water balloons with air and coat them in a layer of petroleum jelly. The water balloons will determine the shape of the lace spheres, so keep this in mind when it comes to size. I found that smaller balloons (like the one on the right) looked best in the end.Lace twinkle lights DIY

3. Submerge a piece of lace into the fabric stiffener and wrap it around a balloon.Lace twinkle lights DIY

Lace twinkle lights DIY

4. Keep wrapping until the balloon is full covered (you can overlap fabric if necessary), leaving the knotted portion of the balloon visible. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each of your balloons, then let them sit for at least 8 hours to dry — I let mine sit overnight.Lace twinkle lights DIY

5. Once the material has dried and hardened, use a needle or pin to pop each balloon, and pull the balloons out through the pre-existing hole.Lace twinkle lights DIY 7

6. You can pop your twinkle light right into this hole. My lace spheres all seemed to stay put on their own, but you’re having trouble getting yours to stay on your twinkle lights, you can use a needle and thread to stitch up the opening over the wire, as shown below.Lace twinkle lights DIY

I liked alternating lace sphere and plain twinkle light in random segments. I also really like how each sphere turned out slightly differently — it adds to the whole hand-touched feeling.Lace twinkle lights DIY

More DIY ideas from the BLDG 25 Blog.

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10 years ago

Love it! I made these a while back, they are so lovely!

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10 years ago

How beautiful! I would keep these up year round in my bedroom or maybe out in the garden <3
xoxo Annejelina

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Liz
10 years ago

Oh wow. I was just looking for a new idea for string lights in my living room. I wanted to buy Chinese lanterns, but it would be so expensive to buy enough. This should be much cheaper, and prettier. Thank you!

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Eva
10 years ago

llloovvvee this!

meg
10 years ago

These are awesome! You can also you Mod Podge. ;)

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10 years ago

This is way too cute! I love it

10 years ago

wonderful diy for the winter holidays : )

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Alex
10 years ago

I think these would look even better as Christmas ornaments

These are sooo stinking cute!! And creative. Thank you!

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10 years ago

This is such a cute idea, and it doesn’t eben sound like it’s too hard to do!
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Bonnie
10 years ago

Would look cute on a romantic Christmas tree!

10 years ago

What a great idea. It looks so simple. Can’t wait to add them to my Christmas lights in my room.

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10 years ago

I love this! Definitely a new project for me to do! I am in France…with my boyfriend and son…ahhh! This has girly written all over it….AND I LOVE IT! Can’t wait to decorate my desk with it! …I get a little tired of the basketball decor lol. Thanks! :)

xoxo

Sara
10 years ago

Tried it soo hard!

Valley
8 years ago

Helloooo, Brigette. I am Valley from China. I am a super big fan of you. I have been kept reading your posts since last year. I absolutely love you! You are so creative and clever, always full of new ideas. You have gave me so much inspiration, and I am really grateful for that. I have learned a lot from you! I am fascinated by your lifestyle. I think your life is exactly my dream life. I write down many words that you said on my notebook for inspiration. Many of your DIY posts are so fantasti that I want to translate them into Chinese to share with more people. I translated your DIY Lace Twinkle Lights into Chinese, and it turns out that many people like it. They think you are so creative too! I want to send you an email to tell these to you, but I don’ t kown your emai address, and I can’t visit your blog. You are doing a great job! And I thank you so much! I love you! XOXO

Gordon
7 years ago

Would you please tell me where you find actual twinkle lights and not blinking lights? Last Xmas I looked
everywhere for old fashioned twinkle lights and none were to be found. I also searched the net and
there were none. There are companies that advertise their lights as twinkle lights but they blink which
is not calming in the least.
Thanks for your time.