WARM WISHES
Better Homes & Gardens US|Holiday Crafts
It's the most wonderful time of year to hunker down and experiment with cozy fabric, felt, trim, yarn, and more. No sewing required!
MARIA V. CHARBONNEAUX
WARM WISHES

GARLAND VARIETY

Add geometric interest to your fireplace mantel, far left and left, by layering garlands made from felt-and-fabric honeycombs and fabric-wrapped beads.

MATERIALS

☐ 1/4 yard of fabric

☐ Hot-glue gun and glue sticks

☐ Safety pin

☐ 6 feet of golden twine

☐ Needle Wooden beads (ours are 20-millimeterdiameter with a 10-millimeter hole)

☐ Bamboo skewer

☐ Heavyweight fusible web

☐ Assorted quilting fabrics

☐ 9x12-inch wool felt sheets: assorted colors

☐ Cardstock

☐ Cord

WRAPPED BEADS GARLAND

Cut 1/4 yard of fabric in half to create two 4 1/2×36-inch strips. With right sides together, hot-glue strips together ½ inch from one short edge; let dry.

Unfold and finger-press seam open to create one long strip. To make a fabric tube, fold the strip in half lengthwise with right sides together and hot-glue long edges together; let dry. Clip a safety pin to one end. Use the pin to turn tube right side out.

Thread needle with golden twine. Feed a bead into the fabric tube, dab hot glue in bead hole and, using a bamboo skewer, tuck the fabric end into the hole. Thread the needle through the bead, leaving a 6-inch twine tail. Poke the needle out through the fabric close to the other side of the bead; wrap twine tightly around the tube three times to cinch the fabric. Slip the needle through the looped twine to create a knot.

Repeat with beads to the end of the tube, leaving a twine tail. Tuck and glue fabric end into last bead hole. Tie each twine end into a hanging loop.

HONEYCOMB GARLAND

Following fusible-web instructions, use an iron to fuse quilting fabric to felt sheets.

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