Monday, September 19, 2011

How to make Flag Garland

I've been seeing everywhere on Pinterest these cute Garland Flags. I knew this would be a simple DIY project and perfect for halloween so I decided to create some this weekend.

The Materials needed are Stiff Felt (usually you can find this in the same section as regular felt, but it only comes in a limited amount of colors), Patterned material (I went with a halloween themed colors since I was making them for halloween, you can shop in the remnants if you wanted to), a Spool of thin ribbon (so you can string them all together) and of course Glue, you could also Sew the material together....But I'm really lazy and like my craft projects done quick, so I chose not to sew.

materials

First I cut out a template of a triangle I drew by using a ruler from a poster board material that I received in junk mail, I then used that template to cut out the Triangles from the Stiff Felt. After I cut them all out I made one slightly smaller to use as a template for the patterned material.
cut
I then took my patterned material laid it out and cut along the template into several small triangles.
fabric

After I had a good amount of the triangles cut out I then glued the cut patterned material on top of the stiff felt.

glue
After laying them out all next to each other I then measured out my ribbon, and Hot glued it on top of the Triangles.

glue2
I cleaned up any extra strands and made sure that the garland looked clean. and Viola! it is done!

Here is the Finished Product!
finished
I Also Made the Wreath.
To see How I decorated the rest of my house check it out How I decorated everything here.

1 comments:

Prom3theus7 said...

Jennie, that is awesome! Nice little d.i.y. tutorial. Love it.