At MOPS, we moms do all types of activities. Recently, our steering team had the great idea with the holiday season coming, to create fabric garland. We all went up and chose out some fabric, one of the leaders did a quick demonstration on how to do it, and off we went, gabbing around a table and creating our garland. The one on the headboard on top of this page is a Frozen-themed attempt I made at the meeting for my oldest daughter. Now I’m going to pass on this easy (Have you realized yet that this is my favorite type of recipe, craft, post in general?! In a life that’s anything but easy, I love easy!) tutorial to you!

For this craft, you will need:

Fabric that you can rip, the same fabric or multiple

String, ribbon, or twine

Scissors

That’s it!

Here’s how you do make this DIY garland:

Decide how wide you want your pieces to be. Use your scissors to make a small cut straight and in line with the grain of the fabric.

At each spot where you made a small cut, rip the fabric all the way to the end! (This is great because it gives your hands something to do. I’m into crochet for that same reason!)

You’ll have a whole bunch of strips of fabric now.

Take your string and tie each piece of fabric around it. There are different ways to tie it so that the string hangs differently. If you tie just a regular overhand knot, your garland will have a look more like this one that I won at our little MOPS drawing:

Or if you take the strands on one side of the string and loop them back over the string and between themselves, I believe it’s called a Lark’s Head knot, it will look more like the one at the top of the page or this one:

Fabric garland makes a cute little accent and if I had a mantle, that would be my first choice on where to put it! Currently, I have one surrounding a canvas picture which has no frame, as well as the TV, bed, and doorway ones pictured. Lots of places to hang these and they make really simple but pretty holiday decorations!