Make a Sweet Snowy Garland

I thought of something cute to do with the Sweet Snowman printables...

...there they are at the bottoms and tops...

...with snowflakes and hearts...

... as Sweet Snowy garlands!

Last Christmas I decorated the hall with a curtain of paper snowflakes. They were lovely and big and I planned to make more, and as I was sat with my Snowmen and ribbons and buttons and pens and paper and well, everything supply I could think of, I had this idea...

First I cut out my Sweet Snowman gift tags which I printed on plain old paper and then little hearts from red paper (they are 4cm (1.5") and I cut 10)...

...then with the plain old paper I cut some 11cm (4") sqaures and snipped them into pretty snowflakes. I think most people remember how to do this from school but in case you need a little nudge (I did!)

*Fold your square diagonally in half and then again and once more*

*Snip little bits out of the sides carefully*

*Unfold*

*Play around until you have pretty paper snow*

I took my six Snowmen, 10 hearts and 8 snowflakes and lay them out on the floor in the order I would stitch them... snowman then heart, snowflake, heart... and a snowman on the bottom. You can put them however you think is prettiest and as long as you like but do put a snowman a the bottom of each...

Then I forgot to take a photo of them being stitched on the machine and of course you could sew them by hand. I'd use a long thread and stitch top and bottom of each piece with extras in the middle when needed...

*Pull a long thread tail through the foot (this will be your string to tie your garlands up later)

*With your first Snowman tag open, stitch through his back...

*Once the paper has gone through, keep tension on the thread and do a couple of stitches (this makes your gap)

*Sew through a heart...

*stitch a gap...

*Sew through a snowflake...

*stitch a gap...

*Once your last in the line of hearts and snowflakes is stitched, sew half way down the back of another open snowman.

*Fold the Snowmen and glue them closed. The double thickness and a bit of glue will act like a bit of weight and hold the garlands straighter... see there is a reason :)

Make as may as you like and hang them everywhere!

My snipping made 3 garlands which are now hung between the banisters of the stairs, but they look good hung together from the ceiling too...

If anymore does make a garland, I'd love to hear!

I'll be trying to make more to fill the stairs every time I settle in to a Xmas movie... I think I'll need a lot of movies!

xo