Covering a medium orange entirely with cloves can make a fabulous Pomander ball. Years ago I worked on an orange with some whole cloves. It took lots of cloves to entirely cover the orange. I inserted them as close to each other as possible. Using a thimble is a good idea and I used nice looking whole cloves. I set the orange in a small cardboard box with some paper towels scrunched around it and actually forgot about it. About six months later I found it again.
WOW it smelled so wonderful. I put the orange in a small organdy sachet bag and then into the back of my linen closet. Twenty years later when I moved I found it again and it still smelled fabulous. It was totally hard and dry. I still use it in my sewing basket and it is in perfect condition. So have fun and the work to make one is worth it.
Covering a medium orange entirely with cloves can make a fabulous Pomander ball. Years ago I worked on an orange with some whole cloves. It took lots of cloves to entirely cover the orange. I inserted them as close to each other as possible. Using a thimble is a good idea and I used nice looking whole cloves. I set the orange in a small cardboard box with some paper towels scrunched around it and actually forgot about it. About six months later I found it again.
WOW it smelled so wonderful. I put the orange in a small organdy sachet bag and then into the back of my linen closet. Twenty years later when I moved I found it again and it still smelled fabulous. It was totally hard and dry. I still use it in my sewing basket and it is in perfect condition. So have fun and the work to make one is worth it.