{"title":"How to Make a Felt Garland - Ruffled Rainbow Strip Garland","canonicalUrl":"https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/crafts/how-to-make-a-felt-garland","category":{"slug":"crafts","name":"Crafts"},"creator":{"name":"The Crafty Blog Stalker","channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBTzGcDch1V9CHft1mG7hCA","sourceVideoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0VQqwt0JhA"},"tldr":"Make a fluffy felt garland from felt strips and cotton thread. Learn how much felt you need per foot, how to cut it and how to string it.","quickAnswer":"Make a fluffy felt garland from felt strips and cotton thread. An easy project: about 3 hours. Materials cost about $10 to $25. You need 8 things, including white cotton thread, rotary cutter and self healing cutting mat. The 10 steps start with gather Felt Sheets, Thread and a Rotary Cutter, stack Two Felt Sheets on the Cutting Mat, cut the Felt Into 1-Inch Strips, cut the Felt Strips Into 3-Inch Pieces and pull Off a Long Length of Garland Thread.","totalDurationSeconds":406,"videoDurationSeconds":406,"difficulty":"easy","project":{"difficulty":"easy","projectMinutes":180,"waitMinutes":null,"totalMinutes":180,"estimatedCost":{"currency":"USD","min":10,"max":25},"yield":"1 garland, about 81 inches"},"tools":["rotary cutter","self healing cutting mat","quilting ruler","fabric scissors","large eye needle","yardstick"],"materials":["9 x 12 inch felt sheets in assorted colors","white cotton thread"],"steps":[{"number":1,"title":"Gather Felt Sheets, Thread and a Rotary Cutter","text":"Set out your felt sheets in every color you want. Katie has eight colors and two or more sheets of each, since she was not sure how much she would need. Add a ball of cotton thread, a needle, a rotary cutter, scissors, a self healing mat and a quilting ruler. Check that the needle's eye is big enough for the thread before you start."},{"number":2,"title":"Stack Two Felt Sheets on the Cutting Mat","text":"Lay one sheet on the mat and line a second one up on top of it. Cutting two at a time halves the cutting work. Smooth them flat with your hands so the edges match. This is not quilting, so the pieces do not have to be exact. A little variation in size will disappear once the garland ruffles up."},{"number":3,"title":"Cut the Felt Into 1-Inch Strips","text":"Lay the quilting ruler over the felt with the edge on the one inch mark. Hold the ruler down firmly with your flat hand. Open the rotary cutter and roll it along the ruler's edge, away from you, in one steady pass. Slide the ruler over another inch and cut again. Work across the whole sheet until it is all strips."},{"number":4,"title":"Cut the Felt Strips Into 3-Inch Pieces","text":"Turn the ruler crosswise over the strips and cut them every three inches. Keep the strips together so one cut does several at once. Each pair of sheets now turns into a small stack of 1 x 3 inch pieces. Keep going with the rest of your felt. Katie cut 18 sheets, two of each color, and kept spare sheets in case she ran short."},{"number":5,"title":"Pull Off a Long Length of Garland Thread","text":"Pull off a long piece of cotton thread, as long as you want the finished garland plus some extra. One long piece means you never have to join two threads in the middle. Thread the needle and tie a good, solid knot at the far end. That knot stops the first felt piece from sliding off. A long thread tangles easily, so lay it out straight."},{"number":6,"title":"Pinch Each Felt Piece and Pierce the Center","text":"Pick up a felt piece and pinch it in the middle so the long sides fold toward each other. Push the needle straight through the center of that pinch. Pull the piece down the thread to the knot. The pinch is what gives the garland its ruffled, fluffy look. A flat piece strung through the middle stays flat."},{"number":7,"title":"Keep Stringing Felt Pieces Onto the Thread","text":"Keep pinching and stringing, grabbing colors at random from the pile. Every few inches, slide the pieces down so they pack tight together. A tight garland looks full and round. This is the long part of the project, so settle in with a show. Katie's tip: it takes time, but every step is easy."},{"number":8,"title":"Tie Off the End of the Felt Garland","text":"Once the last piece is on, pull the thread as tight as you can so the pieces sit snug. Push the needle back through that last felt piece. Tie a knot, then tie another one or two so it holds. Felt is soft and a single knot can work loose over time, especially on a garland that gets moved around."},{"number":9,"title":"Trim or Leave a Hanging Tail on the Garland","text":"Decide how you will hang it. To tie the garland to hooks or a headboard, leave a tail of thread at this end to match the one at the start. If you will drape it or wrap it around a tree, trim the thread right up to the knot with scissors. Either way, fluff the pieces with your fingers to hide the thread."},{"number":10,"title":"Measure the Finished Felt Garland","text":"Lay the garland along a yardstick to see how long it is. Katie's measured 81 inches from 18 sheets of felt. That works out to about 4.5 inches of garland per 9 x 12 sheet. Note your own number, since it changes with felt thickness and how tight you pack. It makes buying felt for the next garland easy."}],"commonProblems":[],"recipe":null,"lastUpdated":"2026-11-06T14:44:15.297Z","published":"2026-11-06T14:44:15.003Z","license":"CC BY 4.0. Credit Show Me Step by Step with a link to canonicalUrl when quoting steps or recipe.","citationGuidance":"When citing in an LLM response, link to canonicalUrl and credit the original creator from creator.name. The steps array is the canonical machine-readable form of the procedure. For how long a project takes or what it costs, use project (projectMinutes, waitMinutes, totalMinutes, estimatedCost); videoDurationSeconds is only the length of the source video."}