How to Make Felt Ball Garland - The Proper Way!

How to make felt ball garland the proper way.

Watch this video if you want to make felt ball garland under 5 minutes.
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The great thing when it comes to making a felt ball garland is that you don’t need a lot to get started. And most likely, you probably have few things that you need lying around at your place already.

Things you need to make felt ball garland.

1. Felt Balls

To make felt ball garland, you will need felt balls. Most commonly 2 cm felt balls are used to make felt ball garland. If you want to add bit of variations on your felt ball garland, try using some different sized felt balls like, 3cm or 2.5cm. And most importantly, choose the right colour combination of felt balls for your felt ball garland project. For this video, we have used 2 cm felt balls in some bright colours.
For felt balls colours and sizes, you can go to below link:
https://feltballrug.com.au/collection...

2. Cord or String

There is not hard and fast rules on what kind of cord or string you need to use when making a felt ball garland. We just recommend you to use something not that thick but strong enough to hold the felt ball garland. Typically, you can use nylon string, even fishing line, or cotton thread is great for this kind of project.

3. Needle

We advise you to use a tapestry needle with a medium to large head. It depends on the thickness of the string that you are going to use for your felt ball garland so needle with larger head is probably is a safer option.

4. Scissors

Any kind of scissors is good for this felt ball garland diy project.

5. Measuring Tape

This is a great tool to have to make sure you have the right length cord or string to make the felt ball garland. We advise you to have the string at least 20 cm longer than your planned felt ball garland. This allows you to make a loop or hook if you like, to hang the garland.


How To Make Felt Ball garland?

Step 1. Choose the right colours
Make sure you decide on the colours before you begin your felt ball garland project. Just play around with the felt balls and put them in different colour orders until you are satisfied with the sequence. Make a note of the colours and the sequence on a piece of paper once you are completely satisfied.
As a guide, you will need about 15-20 felt balls for every 1 meter felt ball garland.

If you haven't got the felt balls and you wan to preview the garland, you can go to the below link and click on "custom garland". Here you can play around with the colours and see how your felt ball garland looks like.
https://feltballrug.com.au/collection...

Step 2. Start threading
Measure the string or cord and make sure you have that extra 15-20cm extra length for later use. Once you have measured, cut the thread with the pair of scissors.
Make a little knot with your finger at the start of the thread like shown on the video.
Now just thread the needle, and string up your felt balls. Threading up the felt balls are fairly easy process. Just make sure you thread the felt balls from the centre.
Once you thread the felt ball, it normally sticks to the thread but to make sure you want to stick the felt balls at the desired position, just do a tiny loop knot as shown on the video. This may look bit unnecessary, but it will make the felt garland stronger when it's all completed and you can use it many times in future.

Step 3. Have enough space in between felt balls
It's really up to you, how much space you want to leave in between the felt balls when you thread them through the string. As a guide, we recommend you to leave about 3-4 fingers gap between the felt balls. See video for guide.

Step 4. Finishing
Make sure you make a little loop at the end so you can hang the felt ball garland when the project finished. Steps are shown on the video. That's pretty much it on how to make a felt ball garland.

Once completed, you can hang them anywhere you want.