Crocheted gold ribbon encircles a glass ball that has the French Tricolor inside it. Big light blue bow.

Materials:

• Special cordonnet crochet cotton size 40, several yd each red and blue, plus 5 gm loosely twisted metallic thread size 30, gold.
• round clear plastic globe that opens in the middle, 3.25: diameter
• Rocaille beads : 178 each red and blue
• Bugle beads, gold, 38
• small pearls, 38
• Rocaille beads for the flag: 434 red, 403 white, 372 blue
• nylon thread
• red velvet ribbon
• gold ribbon
• blue organdy ribbon
• absorbent cotton for stuffing