I love the look of a garland hanging from the mantle to give a little touch of decoration or celebrate a holiday. Over the last year, I developed a series of garlands to hang at certain times of the year
My garland "adventure" started with Halloween. I bought yellow, orange and white felt and made candy corns, attaching them to a piece of ribbon.
Here is a link to the pattern I used, print on regular 8.5" x 11" paper:
Candy Corn Pattern
For the fall, I bought some inexpensive silk leaves at a craft store and sewed them to a ribbon, creating a fall leaf garland that took me through Thanksgiving.
I didn't make a garland for Christmas, since I put stockings up on the mantle then. For after Christmas, a snowflake garland seemed appropriate. I got these felt snowflakes online for cheap and stitched them together.
For Valentine's Day, I drew a bunch of hearts using a cookie cutter on a remnant of wool felt I had, and then sewed the hearts together with some spacing on my sewing machine.
Next up, for Easter, I did a garland of yellow Peeps, using felt leftover from the candy corn garland. Here is the link to a pattern I found on this website:
http://www.madeeveryday.com/
Peep pattern
For the summer, I wanted something a bit nautical, so I ordered inexpensive sand dollars and starfish from the internet and sewed them to a rope length I bought at a hardware store.
Finally, I decided we should have a garland at the family's cabin, so I bought some cheap used fishing bobbers off of Ebay and sewed them to some rope.
In 2022 I decided we needed a shamrock garland for March. I used a cookie cutter to cut out wool-blend felt and sewed them together by hand.
