Eco-Friendly Fabric Tassel Garland Tutorial

This tassel garland is fully customizable.  Use old worn out clothes and it's eco-friendly as well.  

I saw Prudent Baby's tutorial and decided to try it out myself!

Materials:

• A variety of coordinating fabrics

• Ribbon, lace or string

Tools:

• Scissors 

Step #1

Cut your fabric into squares or rectangles.  You can make your tassels any size you would like.  Cut the fabric twice as long as the length you want your tassels to hang.  

My fabric was about 16" x 16", but varied because I was using worn out clothing and fabric leftovers, so I had to cut around holes and sleeves, etc. 

IDEA:  You can certainly buy fabric to use in this project, but to make it more eco-friendly, use worn out clothes or other leftover fabrics.

Step #2

Fold your fabric in half.

Step #3

Make slits in your folded fabric about an inch or so apart, stopping about an inch or so before getting to the fold.

Step #4

Unfold your fabric.

Step #5

From the middle, roll your fabric.

This is what you'll end up with.

Step #6

Fold your rolled up fabric in half.

Step #7 

Cut a small strip (or use a scrap) of the same fabric and tie it around the top.


Step #8

 Repeat for all of your fabrics.


Step #9

Slide your tassels on ribbon or string.  I used lace, mainly because I have so much of it.  You could also tie the tassels on with another scrap, but I just slide them directly onto the lace.


Step #10

Enjoy your new tassel garland!

Fabric Rose Flower Tutorial {Flower Week Day 2}

I have been really enjoying making these flowers from leftover fabric, old jeans, old t-shirts, or basically any leftover fabric.  They are pretty easy, and they look really cute!  I took a bunch and made a garland for my booth at Building Character.  It got a lot of comments on First Friday.

I basically used this tutorial on beaded fabric flower necklace, but skipped the beaded necklace part, and just used the flower part!

The flowers I used in my garland were much larger than the ones in the tutorial or even the one I made here.  To make larger flowers, just use longer and wider fabric.  I found that t-shirt material worked very well.

Materials:

A long, skinny piece of fabric

(for this small flower, I used a piece 20" long and about 1" wide)

Thread or embroidery floss

Needle

Scissors

Step #1

If you're using embroidery floss, you want to separate it.  I used 2 strands and that was about right.

Step # 2

Fold the fabric in half long-wise.

Step #3

Start to roll the end - roll it a few times.

Step #4

Secure it with a few stitches.  (In the tutorial I mentioned above, she doesn't clip the thread - I do cut the thread.)

Step #5

Fold the fabric at a 90 degree angle.

Then continue to roll the fabric around.  You are creating a "flower bud."

Step #6

Secure with a couple of stitches.

Step #7

Continue to fold the fabric in a 90 degree angle, roll the fabric and secure with a few stitches until you use the fabric or make the flower the size you would like.

Step #8

Finish the flower by anchoring the end with some stitches.

This makes a small flower, a nice size for jewelry or on a barrette for your hair.  To make a larger flower, just make your fabric larger.  Experiment until you get the size you would like.

To make the flower garland I just took embroidery floss and strung each flower through and knotted each side of the flower to hold it in place.

Have fun making these flowers!