DIY felt feather garland – Vin’yet Etc.

Welcome to July’s 12 months of DIY challenge! In case this is your very first visit here I’ll fill you in on what 12 months of DIY is. Each month I join in with 11 awesome Canadian blogging friends, we DIY something spectacular using one material.

Here is what we’ve done so far.

January – Mason Jars – Farmhouse light

February – Fabric – Blanket with pom poms

March – Wood – wood sliced art

April – Thrift Store – roll n’ go travel bag

May – Mod Podge – beginners art

June – Spray Paint  – secret garden gate from an antique crib

And for July we are using felt!

I wanted to get my craft on for this month’s project, a little bit different than my usual DIY. I’m pretty much obsessed with both feathers and garland… so this project seemed like a great idea and I’m so happy with how this adorable felt feather garland has turned out!

Our sponsor this month, The Kunin Group Eco-fiPlus™ Premiumfelt has very generously donated the felt you will be seeing in all of our DIY projects! This thick high quality 8 oz felt is made from recycled plastic bottles… that is just awesome! You can see what my very creative friends have made at this end of this feather garland DIY tutorial, now on to how I made this feather garland… using felt.

Materials you will need 

Two different coloured felt sheets – (I used 2 – 12″ x 17″ white and 2 – 12″ x 17″grey felt sheets to make all of the feathers)

Sharp (comfortable) scissors

Glue gun and glue sticks

Twine or string of your choice (I used bakers twine from ikea) and embroidery thread

Hand drawn feather template(s) – (I used 4 different shaped feathers)

DIY Steps

1 Draw an outline/template of any feather shape(s) that you may like on to white paper, I used some shapes that I saw on line as a guide. (In total I used 4 different shapes)

2 Cut the template feathers out of the paper, use that as a guide to cut your felt into rectangular pieces.

3 Lay your template onto the felt rectangles and cut the feather shapes out of the felt. I alternated the 4 shapes for a total of 32 grey feathers and repeated that for a total of 32 white feathers. It’s a lot of cutting, make sure to use comfy scissors.

4 Group all of your like feathers together, keeping the grey and the white in separate piles, but group same shapes together.

5 Take one group at a time, leave the grey feathers whole and cut the white feathers down the center.

6 Run a thin line of hot glue down each side of the grey feather and stick one half of the white on either side. Repeat until all of your grey feathers have white halves glued on.

**Attach the individual feathers on to your selected twine… I used embroidery thread attached to each feather and wrapped that around the bakers twine and secured that with a dot of hot glue. I wanted the feathers to move in the wind.**

There you have it, so easy…

I love that it can hang anywhere… in my studio.

Or in a gorgeous back yard…

So much fun!

Now it’s time to see the rest of the DIY felt project ideas from my Canadian blogging friends!

From the top left, they are:

No Sew Felt Sewing Needle Storage Case from Time With Thea

DIY Felt Succulents from Brooklyn Berry Designs

DIY Felt Feather Garland from Vin’yet Etc.

Felt Chocolate Chip Cookies from Life is a Party

DIY Felt Basket from Love Create Celebrate

DIY Felt Fruit Mobile from Woman in Real Life

DIY Felt Notebook Covers from Lifeovereasy

Felt Flamingo Bag from PMQ for Two

DIY Felt Coasters from Fresh Crush

DIY Nautical Throw Pillows with Felt Fabric from Sustain My Craft Habit

Floral Felt Tic-Tac-Toe Game from The DIY Mommy

Felt Wall Organizer from Love Create Celebrate

I sure hope you’ve gathered some inspiration from all of these awesome projects made with felt!? I most definitely will use this material again, thanks once again, The Kunin Group Eco-fiPlus™ Premiumfelt I really enjoyed using your quality felt product!

Peace and blue skies,

Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by, The Kunin Group Eco-fiPlus™ Premiumfelt. As always, all of the opinions here are my very own and I only recommend companies that I love and use myself.