Try decorating your home or apartment with these beautiful multi-colored garlands, which are made from multi-colored felt. Such homemade decorative elements for the New Year holidays are not only beautiful, but also practical.
A homemade felt garland can be stored perfectly, which means it can decorate your home for more than one holiday. Agree, this cannot but rejoice, because, for example, a paper garland is more likely to be considered a disposable decoration than a practical one.
New Year is always a holiday that we associate with bright flowers, New Year trees, snowflakes, snowmen, etc. It is these associations that we propose to use in making New Year’s garlands from felt.
The news portal “Vtemu.by” in this article has prepared for you several original options for making New Year’s garlands from felt. So, which one will you choose?!
DIY felt garland
To create such a rainbow voluminous felt garland, you will need multi-colored strips of felt of the same size and a hot glue gun.
If you don’t want or don’t have the opportunity to use glue in your work, you can attach the parts of the garland to each other using a needle and thread. The garland will turn out no worse, the only thing is that it will take more time to make it.
So, take the first strip of felt and roll it into a circle. Secure the edges with glue.
Now thread the second strip into the resulting circle and secure with glue. In this way, continue to increase the size of the felt garland.
You should end up with a long multi-colored chain.
To create such a garland, you can use felt of the same shade; it all depends on your mood and the overall interior design.
Storage and care
Jewelry does not require special care; dry cleaning with a brush or vacuum cleaner is recommended. Felt crafts can be washed if necessary.
- To do this, dissolve soap shavings or liquid detergent in warm water.
- Immerse the figures in the solution for a few minutes, you can slightly mash them.
- Then they need to be rinsed in clean warm water.
- It is easy to squeeze out by pressing and allowing the water to drain.
- You need to dry it away from heating devices, laying it out on a soft towel.
We recommend
If the decoration contains paper elements, use dry clean only.
- You can store such decorations in ordinary cardboard boxes.
New Year's holidays are a great opportunity to get creative with your loved ones and decorate your home with original crafts that keep the warmth of your hands.
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DIY felt garland
This version of the garland is especially suitable for those who have a large number of small pieces of felt. To work, you will need thin multi-colored strips of felt (15 cm x 2 cm) and thick rope.
Tie cut multi-colored strips of felt onto a rope into knots. The more stripes you tie, the more voluminous and elegant the garland will be.
With a finished felt garland you can decorate a Christmas tree, bookshelves, a window, a windowsill, or simply hang it on the wall.
Snowmen
To create such crafts for the New Year you will need:
- Material available in white, orange, brown and blue;
- Threads matching the color;
- Scissors;
- A bar of soap for transferring the pattern;
- Filling: synthetic winterizer or holofiber;
- Additional decorative elements - beads, curly buttons.
Step-by-step master class:
— Patterns are drawn on a sheet of paper. Transferred to felt fabric. They are cut out. For the head and body of the snowman, white material is taken, 1 piece each, for the arms - brown, parts of the jacket and hat are cut out of blue, and the carrot is cut out of orange.
— We begin to sew the parts together. The head is sewn on the side. The top is pulled together and secured inside with a knot. Now the resulting cap needs to be turned inside out and slightly stretched, smoothing the seam from the inside. The end result should be a small bell. We fill the workpiece with filler and tighten the edges. The snowman's head is ready. We embroider the eyes on the ball using black thread. A smile is embroidered in brown or red.
— 2 parts of the carrot pattern are sewn together and sewn to the head.
— The rectangular part of the snowman’s hat is folded in half, the edges are sewn together. There is no need to cut the thread; it is pulled together and secured with a knot. The hat is straightened and decorated with decorative elements.
— Next, the parts of the snowman’s body are sewn together. Stuffed with filler. The head is attached to the body with threads. For strength, it is better to make several seams.
— The brown parts of the hands on one side are slightly cut, these are the snowman’s fingers. The felt needs to be twisted into a rope and stitched with wide stitches. Now you can sew them to the body.
- From the remaining part of the blue material we make a jacket - we wrap the fabric around the body, slightly turn the edges and with a few small stitches we make gathers that form the collar.
Ready-made New Year's felt toys can be additionally decorated with beautiful beads and sprinkled with glitter on drops of glue. Fantasize and everything will work out; felt New Year's toys will decorate any holiday.
Felt star garland
Felt garlands of various geometric shapes look very elegant and beautiful. For example, a garland of small multi-colored stars. To work, you will need to use a star stencil, according to which you should cut out stars from felt. Sew the finished stars on a machine, connecting them together into a single long garland.
You can also make three-dimensional stars by connecting two stars together and filling them with cotton wool.
Felt toys for the Christmas tree “Gingerbread man” – templates for printing
In recent years, gingerbread bangs have become favorite decorations on Christmas trees, which look great on any New Year's tree. It takes a lot of work to make a toy like this.
First, the base of the man is cut out of brown felt, then a loop is sewn to the back of his head. The eyes and mouth are embroidered from beads or seed beads. If desired, select and paste the rest of the decor.
Felt gingerbread men patterns
Felt Christmas tree garland
And of course, what would New Year be without a beautiful Christmas tree?!
Try making these colorful felt garlands with your own hands in the form of beautiful New Year trees. Christmas trees can be made either voluminous (fill each with padding polyester or cotton wool), or, on the contrary, in one layer of felt.
Try to choose felt shades that are pleasing to the eye and don’t forget about colorful decorations on miniature Christmas trees.
As decoration, you can use felt scraps of other colors, or you can use buttons, beads, sequins and even paper elements and stickers.
Christmas trees on wooden clothespins look very original and unusual. This garland will be a worthy decoration for the main Christmas tree in your home, as well as a fireplace or wall.
Material
It’s hard to imagine a better material than felt for such decorations:
- its softness and plasticity allow you to turn almost any fantasy into reality - you can make animal figures, snowflakes, cones, Santa Claus, etc.;
- this is an environmentally friendly material, made from felted down fibers (sometimes with the addition of viscose);
- high-quality felt for crafts does not cause allergies;
- he is warm and pleasant to work with;
- felt decorations are safe - they will not break or injure you and your loved ones.
Felt can vary in density, thickness and stiffness. Each type has different properties, and, depending on the purpose of use, has its own advantages and disadvantages.
On a note
Korean sheet eco-felt is most suitable for crafts. It comes in different hardnesses, but is always dense and homogeneous, there are practically no long hairs on its surface, they do not fly away and do not enter the respiratory organs, therefore, it will not cause allergies.
It also does not crumble during processing, the edge of the cut holds its shape well, does not fluff and does not spread out in the future. When making three-dimensional crafts (printed), it does not stretch.
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New Year's felt boots
To sew such felt boots, you need:
Sheet of felt material, A4 format, red, square 15 by 15 cm, green;
- Yellow sequins;
- Yellow beads;
- Narrow satin ribbon, bows will be made from it;
- White woolen threads for decorative patches;
- Ready sewing ribbon with sequins;
- Scissors and sewing machine;
- Red and green threads.
Sequencing:
— A sheet of red cloth is folded in half. The boundaries of the future felt boots are drawn on the resulting rectangle. After cutting you will have 2 halves of the product. The felt boot sock is placed on the green one, outlined and cut out.
— The green patch is applied to the felt boots. Now you need to cut out the central decorative piece. How to make a Christmas tree from felt? The pattern template is applied to the green fabric, traced and cut out. It will be sewn exactly in the middle of the boot.
— The patch is stitched with white threads. The Christmas tree is sewn on a machine with color-matched threads.
- Now you can decorate the applique - attach sequins or metal beads for the Christmas tree to it.
— You need to sew a small bow from a satin ribbon. To do this, simply fold the edges of the cut piece and sew them in the middle. The bow can be sewn onto the Christmas tree on the bootleg.
— After all the decorative elements have been sewn, you can sew together the parts of the felt boots itself. The parts are sewn together, with the decorations facing inward.
— After fastening the parts, you need to turn the felt boots inside out and decorate its edges with a ribbon with sequins, making sure to make a small loop out of them.
Next, we present patterns and other ideas for felt boots.
