January 17, 2014

No-Sew Heart Garland

I had seen cute felt heart garlands on pinterest and wanted to make one for my mantle.  The ones I had seen were made of hearts cut from felt and sewn together in a line, but I had no desire to cut out a bunch of hearts.  I started looking around and found some pre-cut felt hearts, but they were the peel-and-stick variety.  I thought "I can't sew through those! But wait . . . . I could just stick them back to back around a string and then I could even skip the sewing part! Yes!"


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And that's what I did.  I found these packs of Stick-it-Felt Heart Shapes at a local store and bought a few of them. The packs come with two different sizes of hearts in 4 colors.  I used just 3 of the colors (I didn't care for the hot pink).  I took the paper back off of a couple of hearts, laid a thread down the middle of one and put  the other sticky heart on top. I just continued sticking them to the thread until it was as long as I wanted. The felt hearts have a nice weight to them.  I'm happy with how it turned out.  

My garland is about 10 feet long.  It was not so long at first, but I left string on each end when I first hung it up.  When I decided I wanted some hearts hanging from side, I just made a new strand, tied it to the first one about a heart apart, and then stuck a new heart over the knot.  Did that make sense?  My mind is a little fuzzy tonight.  


I'm still working on the rest of the mantle. :)
The kids really enjoyed helping with this project.  It's pretty simple and they can do it on their own (although I had to lower my expectation that the hearts would be lined up perfectly).  They want to make lots more to hang around our house and their rooms.  



4 comments:

  1. So cute! And much easier than sewing. Looks great!

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  2. It turned out so cute! I want to go try it now.

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    1. Thanks Kara! And it's soo easy. Plus you can do just a bit at a time if you need to, adding a heart here and there between other activities.

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