Garland can amp up any event. Perhaps your home is in need of a little whimsy or a little one has a birthday coming up. The possibilities are endless. You asked for it so below I'll describe how you can make the flower garland we used in our Birthday window.
Supplies: -Sewing machine
-Paper or fabric for the flowers
-fabric for the string: A basic light-medium weight woven. Not stretchy or knit.
How to:
1. Cut out your shapes. Get the little ones to help with this. We cut out flowers but you could do anything really. Circles could be equally interesting and easy for everyone to do.
2. cut/rip strips of fabric. I cut a small 1"ish snip into the selvege of the fabric and then rip it into strips. Don't worry here the fabric will rip into a neat strips. Just rip away! Snip. Rip away and repeat.
3. fold the two edges of the strip towards the center and then in half (see photo above). This should look like bias tape.
4. Insert the flowers at intervals. No measuring here (unless your personality dictates it). Sew a little and add in a flower. Make certain you are stitching through the flower and fabric string at the same time.
5. Join a new fabric strip as the first strip runs out by inserting it as with the flowers above.
6. Continue adding new flowers and strips as you go. When you run out of flowers or fabric you're done! :)
7. Hang and pin! Enjoy your garland!
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