Brighten up your home this holiday season with this fun, festive garland. While I opted for a rainbow color scheme, you can use whatever colors of felt you would like to make this DIY your own.
Materials:
*Sheets of felt in colors of your choosing. Since I used seven different colors of felt for the "light bulbs," I only needed one sheet of each color. However, if you are using fewer colors, you may need more sheets of each color.
*Gray felt
*Metallic marker
*Scissors
*Thread in colors of your light bulbs
*Silver or gray thread
*Stuffing
*Ribbon to string the lights together
Directions:
*Print out a copy of the light bulb template given below:
*Cut out the whole template as one, leaving the light bulb cap attached to the rest of the bulb
*Determine how many lights you would like to have on your garland. Trace and cut out twice as many felt pieces as you would like lights, one piece for the front of each bulb and one piece for the back of each bulb.
*Trace and cut out twice as many copies of the light bulb cap as you would like lights from gray felt.
*Take two light bulb pieces and two light bulb caps and sew the caps to the light bulb pieces using a back stitch and gray or silver thread.
*Place the two light bulb pieces wrong sides together and sew together using a blanket stitch. Leave an opening at the top for stuffing.
*Add stuffing and sew closed.
*Repeat the sewing process until you have sewn all of your bulbs together.
*Sew the bulbs to a piece of ribbon to complete your light garland.
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