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Simple to Make Repurposed Sweater Felt Garland

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How to Make A Colourful Repurposed Felt Garland

Making a repurposed Christmas felt garland is such an addictive festive craft. Last week when making Christmas felt letters I suggested that you might want to keep the scraps to make a felt decoration (felt tinsel).
 
 
These felt garlands are fantastically colourful and can be used in loads of ways. You can wrap the felt garlands around your tree, use it to hang things from, treat it like ribbon or just drape it over your pictures for that fun festive feel. I love to hang mine from my Christmas mantle.
 
 
Even though what happens in craft club should stay in craft club, I can tell you that last night we got into the festive mood by turning mini felt garlands into adorable felt Christmas baubles, whilst sipping sloe gin.
 
 
This is an addictive and easy upcycle, making a gorgeous felt garland recycling old sweaters. It can be used like Christmas tinsel or ribbon.
 
 
 
Felt Garland Pillarboxblue
 
 
Make funky felt garlands to brighten up your Christmas decorations.
 
 
 
 
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What You Need to make a Christmas Felt Garland

 
Felted sweaters
 
 
 

How to Make Upcycled Christmas Felt Garlands

  1. Using the pinking shears cut your felted sweaters/scraps into small squares. The pinking shears are only for decorative purposes as it gives a better effect than with straight scissors. I tend to cut my felt into 2cm squares and don’t worry about them being to even. How many squares you cut depend on how long you want you felt decoration garland to be.

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  2. Thread a button or a craft bell onto the end of your thread, this will stop the felt squares falling off the end.

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  3. Next using the tapestry needle thread your felt squares in the colour order of your choice. Red and cream alternate make a lovely festive garland.
    I also love a Christmas felt garland of many colours.

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  4. When your felt garland is the length you want, finish as you started with either a button or craft bell.

 
 How to make a Felt garland- Pillarboxblue
 
 
 
This is a very addictive craft once you start, you’ll find that one felt garland won’t be enough ! I sometimes call these felt garlands, felt tinsel.
 
 
The simplicity of this craft makes it a great one for kids. Believe you me they will love it. I’ve found that kids love crafts that grow as you go; especially boys. It’s like when I get my Beavers to make paper chains they never want to stop.
 
 
Upcycled Felt Garland
 
 
Upcycled Felt Garlands
 
 
Upcycled Felt Garlands Pillarboxblue 
 
 
 

How to make Felt Decoration Baubles

Felt Baubles are made the same way as the felt garlands but this time use craft wire instead of thread, as it holds it shape. Loop the wire at one end before you start to stop the felt falling off. When you have finished adding felt squares thread the end of your wire through the loop to create a circle and tie off.
 
Again you can make these as big or as small as you want.
 
 
Felt bauble pillarboxblue.com
 
 
Upcycled sweater felt tinsle
 
 
Felt bauble Pillarboxblue.com
 
 
Upcycled Sweater Felt garland
 
 
Happy felting, and remember once you start it’s hard to stop. If you’re like me you will be on the look out for old colourful woollen sweaters to turn into this fabulously festive felt tinsel. It’s a great way to add colour to your Christmas decorations and costs next to nothing to make.
 
 
Check out my other repurposed sweater crafts here. Including these cute sweater upcycled Christmas ornaments.
 
 
For other fabulous upcycled Christmas crafts visit allfreechristmascrafts.
 

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  3. Words cannot express how much I seriously love these garlands! These are so pretty and so smart. Thanks for sharing your awesome tutorial with us at Merry Monday this week!

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  4. Thank you for sharing this post on the Simply Sweet Homemade Linky Party. You were my choice to be featured this week. What a super fun and novel way to make Christmas decorating your own. Stop by and check out the feature. Happy Holidays.

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  12. Such a cute idea!! I’m thinking I’ll stay home and do a lot of Christmas crafts this weekend, maybe even get our tree! Thanks for sharing at the Peaches+Salt Link party!

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  15. This looks like a great “do whilst watching tv” kind of craft, I can imagine cutting a great pile of pieces and hardly noticing the time passing! I always keep felted jumpers but I’m now thinking I need more colourful ones. I would never deliberately shrink a jumper just so I can cut it up of course so I’ll have to keep my eyes open in charity shops for something suitable.

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    • It is kind of addictive once you start, my family give me all their old jumpers and my Mother and aunt like to wear bright colours, so I have a plentiful supply. I also would never deliberately shrink a jumper, but I’m not as upset as I used to be if I accidently do. As I start thinking of all the things I can make with it.

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  16. Claire, these look like so much fun and so so nice for the season! I love to decorate with felt, its great for crafting and I would have never gotten this idea, you’re so clever!

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    • Thanks ! I warn you once you start you can’t stop, I’ve got loads of the garlands. As well as decorating the house I do use them as ribbon on gifts.

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  23. Love it! So cozy and fun…..and you could alternate all kinds of fabric really, like some jeans squares and such, and maybe throw in a few felt balls here and there….thanks so much for sharing on craft schooling Sunday!

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