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Halloween Felt Ball Garland

Don’t buy a felt garland for Halloween decorating when they are SO easy to make! Use felt balls and embroidery floss and you'll have one in minutes.
Course Halloween Crafts
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes
Servings 1 garland
Cost $24

Equipment

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Arrange your felt balls and ghosts in the order you will string them. You can string out the colors any way you like; I spaced them approximately 1" apart.
    Halloween color felt balls, felt ghost shapes, embroidery floss, needle, scissors
  • Open the embroidery floss. The floss should be about 8 - 9 yards long, and you'll cut in half.
    Hand holding purple embroidery floss
  • Tie a knot at one end, leaving a 9" tail or so. String a needle onto the other end of the floss.
    Hand holding a needle flossed with purple thread
  • String a felt ball onto the floss using the tapestry needle. Push the needle through the center of the ball and to the knot.
    Pulling a needle with floss on it through a purple felt ball
  • Continue stringing felt balls onto the floss, doing several at a time. Every so often, add a ghost felt piece.
    Stringing a felt ghost with purple embroidery floss
  • Once you have several balls on the garland, space them out about 1" apart. Continue stringing balls onto the garland until you get it to the length you want (mine is about 9.5 feet long).
    Spacing out the Halloween felt balls on the embroidery floss
  • Once you get to the last ball, tie off the end in a knot and trim with the scissors. Your garland is ready to hang.
    Felt black ball on embroidery floss with a knot at the end

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Notes

I used 40 felt balls, .78" width. Also note that estimated completion times above are for pre-made balls.
If you want to put felt ghosts throughout your garland, just do it every 4 - 6 balls. The ghost pieces are more expensive than the solid color ones, so the garland will get really expensive if you use too many.