Zipper Fruit and Bowl

Step 1

Steps:

1. Remove the wood grapes by pulling them from the wood vine. Do not remove the top grape. Twist the dowel to remove the grapes on each two-grape section. Twisting may cause the dowel to break, cut another dowel the size of the broken dowel with scissors and drill a hole in the grape to reinsert the new dowel.

Step 2

2. Glue the new dowel into the two-grape section.

Step 3

3. Green Grapes: Cut the cloth material from each green zipper as close to the edge as possible. Pull away extra threads. Cut off and remove the zipper pull. Pull apart the zipper.

Step 4

4. Cut the bottom end off the zipper forming two zipper pieces. Repeat this step for each green zipper for the grape design.

Step 5

5. Apply white glue on the grape and place the green zipper on the grape and start turning the teeth onto the grape with the colored teeth side up. Add more glue and repeat this process until the whole grape is covered with zippers. Use more than one zipper for each grape. Cut off the extra zipper teeth with scissors and press the end of the grape to secure the teeth.

Step 6

6. Repeat this process for all the grapes including the top grape secured on the vine.

Steps 7-8

7. Insert the dowel with a finished grape into the top hole in the vine. The top hole is next to the top grape. Put white glue in the hole of another grape and add the grape to the free end of the dowel.

8. Using a screw starter, start a new hole equally between the next two holes on the vine. Drill a 1/8-inch hole through the vine. Insert the dowel with a finished grape into the drilled hole and glue a grape to the end of the dowel. Repeat this process until all the grapes are attached except for two grapes. These extra grapes may be placed beside the grape vine for displaying.

Step 9

9. Glue a leaf to wire and insert the wire into the last hole on the vine. Repeat this procedure for the second leaf. Let dry.

Steps 10-11

10. Insert the wire into the remaining hole. Twist the wire to a desired shape by twisting the wire around a dowel. Cut off the end.

11. Repeat this process for the second leaf. The grapes are finished.

Steps 12-13

12. Zipped Bowl:

• Cut away the cloth from for all the remaining zippers.
• Cut away the metal jacket pulls and the zipper ends except one. Leave one metal jacket pull on a jacket zipper after removing the cloth and extra threads. This zipper with the pull enhances the bowl design. Set this zipper aside.

13. Add white glue to top rim of bowl. Place white zipper to glued rim with teeth facing the outside of the bowl. Cut off the end when the zipper gets around the bowl. Press the end down. Let dry.

Step 14

14. Add white glue next to the zipper teeth facing inside the bowl. Place white zipper teeth next to the rim zipper with the trimmed sides face-to-face. Add the zipper all around the bowl and cut off the end. Add two more rows of zippers for a total of four rows.

Step 15

15. Starting 1-1/4" down the inside of the bowl add a circle of glue to the bowl. Coil an orange zipper in the same fashion as covering a grape, making a round circle. Add more glue outside the orange circle and place a yellow zipper next to the orange zipper.

Step 16

16. Halfway unzip the jacket zipper with the zipper pull (that was put aside). Place the zipped part on top of the circle with open teeth facing left and closed teeth facing right. Glue the teeth to the wooden bowl making a curved design on both open teeth. Cut off the extra zipper teeth on each end of the zipper once they meet the top rim of the bowl.

Steps 17-18

17. Add glue around the outside yellow edge of the circle, adding glue on top of the open and closed zipper also to make a circle. Place the orange zipper teeth next to the yellow teeth and go around the circle until you meet the four rows of white zippers. Firmly press the orange teeth next to the jacket teeth to secure the open zipper. Let dry.

18. Create two more curved lines from the orange and yellow circle about 1-inch apart from each other. Cut off the end of the zipper once it meets the top rim of the bowl. You should now have four curved lines and one straight line coming out from the circle going to the rim of the bowl. Let dry.

Step 19

19. Glue and cut blue zipper teeth and jacket zipper teeth in the same fashion, starting with the cloth side of the zipper curves. Glue navy blue teeth and jacket teeth to each side of the straight zipper. Cut off the extra teeth.

Step 20

20. Fill in the bare spaces with white zipper teeth.

Steps 21-22

21. On the outside of the bowl glue on six white rows of zipper teeth. Glue a row of jacket zipper teeth next to the last white row cutting off the extra teeth and securing the ends by pressing the teeth to the wooden bowl. Repeat this process with one row of navy blue teeth and one more row of jacket teeth. Continue gluing rows of white teeth to the outside of the bowl until the bottom edge is covered. Leave the bottom of the bowl uncovered. Let dry.

22. Place the fruit inside the zipper bowl.

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