Fabric Garland

I thought I would share some of the crafts I have been working on over the last several months one of my favorites was this fabric garland.

I saw this great idea used for a wedding reception on one of my favorite blogs All Things Thrifty check it out here. I really loved how simple it was and all the texture it gave and thought I could take it and adapt it for my own home Halloween decor. Although you could use this for almost everything I mean Christmas with the reds and greens or Easter with all the pastel colors! I love LOVE Halloween and thought this would be so great on my banister. I was thrilled with how easy it was and how it all came together.

So here are the very easy steps to creating your own fabric garland.

First you take any fabric you want. I used all different textures and colors. I was in luck because Joann's had a ton of Halloween fabric on sale I got a yard and a half each. I used mostly orange and black in dull and shinny textures but wanted something with a bit more color and so I got this great striped one. The only bummer was that the back was white which would not look great. So I ended up hot gluing two pieces together so it would have the stripes on both sides. You could sew it, but I don't own a sewing machine so gluing works just great.

Measure it out at two inches apart and make a cut like so.

Then the fun part begins because all you do next is pull on the fabric and tare it all the way across. I really loved the frayed ends some of the fabric had. It is fine if they don't all come out even. Once you tie it all together it looks great.

Next I looped one piece on the post of my banister and then just started tying all the strips together with a knott alternating the colors. I ended up doing five long pieces on each side of the banister.  Then to finish off the posts I tied any extra strips to the loop, which you can see in the last picture.

Once Halloween was over and I was ready to put it away I took pieces of ribbon and tied the long strips together about every foot or so. That way they won't get all tangled and it will be easy to pull it out for next year.