Today I took out a couple of Christmas decorations.
The wooden snowman family on top of my quilt shelf was given to me by my mother-in-law when son Matthew was a baby. That's 20 years ago now. Does that make it vintage? LOL!!! The shelf sitting snowman was given to me by same son, Matthew, last year. (He also gave me a Santa who stands on the floor and a cinnamon candle w/snowman ornament set.) How cute is it that my then 20 yo son picked out Christmas decorations for me? He is so sweet!!
{Getting decent shots of the garland was a challenge. There is zero natural light in here today...it's been snowing off/on all day and the sky is gray.}
So, I hope you can see it well enough to know that it is a wicked easy project to make. I used an ek snowflake punch and some Scenic Route Christmas pp, Bazzill and Worldwin cs scraps. Just punched a bunch out and stitched them together. Total time - an hour and a half. My garland is 5.5' long. I wanted it to be tight...so I overlapped the edges of the snowflakes so that I wouldn't have a lot of wasted thread. You can make this garland "looser" if you want. Just think about all the ways one could decorate a garland! If you are a person who likes glitter - glitter 'em up! I'm a simple kind of traditional decorator, so I chose to keep mine plain.
Thanks for lookin'!
hugs, patti
5 comments:
OMGosh, Patti...I LOVE that garland! I do believe I have another craft to make:) How sweet of your son, too!
Loving your garland, Patti! And that quilt, oh man, I love that quilt!
Oh lala....first thing I thought was what a beautiful quilt! :-) LOVE the garland and decor! What a sweet sweet son! That set up looks so nice!
I saw a tip somewhere that they used wax paper in between the garland pieces to keep the thread tension just right, so you could space them just as you like!
It's a lovely garland - but the quilt is AMAZING! :) (I'll tip-toe over to Mom's webpage and tell her to come over. ;) )
What a fun project, and I love how the colors go so well with your quilt...you're cool Patti!!!
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