Christmas Lights from Garbage

I have a dilemma: I don’t want to buy stuff for holidays, but I also don’t want to be the only house on my street without Christmas lights. So I made myself some Christmas lights from:

the leftover 5050 RGB LEDs from my last PC build
the 12 V DC power supply from my old wifi router
the leftover canvas from making a bike bag
a leftover dowel rod from making a bookcase

I made a model of an individual LED strip in Inkscape and experimented with a few designs. The one I ultimately chose was these snowflakes:

snowflakes made out of LEDs vector

I chose this design because it had relatively few angles, which meant I could free-hand layout the LEDs without needing to project the design onto the fabric:

photo of snowflakes made out of LEDs

I soldered the 12V and Blue Grounds on each snowflake, and then hot-glued some of the longer wires down to the fabric:

photo of snowflakes with lines soldered down

This is the end result:

photo of snowflake lights in window from the outside