Add a little Hanukkah charm to your mantle with a fleece pom-pom garland. Â or if you’re a gentile call them snowballs! Â Or make one in green and red, or even better, hot pink!
It’s a simple DIY, I made mine with fleece but felt would work as well, get the how-to after the jump…
1. Â You’ll need some fleece, which can be aquired cheaply at any fabric store. Â Cut it into strips. Â As Jacinda would say “this isn’t nasa” so it doesn’t have to be specific. Â Make them different lengths and widths for different size poufs. Â I folded mine up to make cutting easier:
2. Â Make small cuts on either side of the fleece leaving about a centimeter or less in the middle uncut:
3. Â Now grab a strip and roll it up:
Stick a pin through it when it’s all rolled up. Â Repeat with all of your strips:
4. Â Now you need to finish your fleece pom poms. Â There’s a right way and an easy way. Â I’ll show you the right way first. Â Cut a length of embroidery thread, knot one end and thread one end through an embroidery needle:
Push the needle all the way through the center of your fleece pom pom:
Then wrap the thread around the center a few times and tie off. Â use the extra length of thread to attach to your garland. Â For my garland i used some trim that was on sale at International Silks and Woolens, but you could use anything, maybe braid some fleece. Â Cut off the extra thread and you’re done:
The easy way is just to grab a length of thread and tie it around the center, then double knot it, then use the excess thread to knot it around your trim.
5. Â Repeat until you have a happy Hanukkah garland! Â Hang on the mantle!
