For the Crafter: Felt Holly Garland.

Here’s a colorful garland that won’t break, burn out, turn brown or dry up!

 Felt Holly Garland by Oreck

What you’ll need:

  • Green felt (2 shades)
  • Red felt (2 shades)
  • Notebook or copy paper
  • Gold-colored thread
  • Needle

 Felt Holly Garland by Oreck

Instructions:

  1. Make a holly-shaped pattern with notebook or copy paper.
  2. Place pattern on green felt and trace around it with felt-tipped pen, making as many leaves, in as many shades, as you desire.
  3. Make a berry/circle pattern; place on red felt and repeat the same process as you did for the leaves.
  4. Thread your needle. Make a knot in on end.
  5. Alternating leaves and berries, take the thread through each piece twice (once in, once out) so that they will hang flat. Leave space between each piece. Make a knot on the underside of the last piece.
  6. EASY TIP: fold the shapes in half and push the threaded needle through both layers—it’s faster!

 

About the Author: Carole King

As Senior Copywriter for Oreck Corporation, Carole King helps consumers understand the features and benefits of our products through digital communications, direct mail, in-store signage and pithy email subject lines. Carole also lives to accessorize with vintage jewelry, pines for art deco furniture she cannot afford, digs Ella and Bette and Willie, and talks to her zinnias.

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