Holiday Crafts!

Since it's now officially Fall, and Halloween is coming up, I have wanted to decorate. I am not a big fan of spending lots of money on decorations, but I love to have them! So I made my own. I got my ideas from Pinterest of course, but then I changed them more to my taste. 

First of all, I needed a wreath for my very plain looking door. My porch doesn't even have pumpkins on it, so I needed something at least to make it look like someone actually lives in our home. I have seen lots of cute wreath ideas, and it's hard to choose, but I just happened to already have everything I needed for this one!

All I needed was a picture frame and some yarn! Oh, and I used tape to attach the string to the back. I think I will probably add some felt letters saying WELCOME and maybe a spider too. :)

I've also been seeing some really cute garland ideas. I saw one that used leaves cut out of felt and strung on a piece of yarn or twine. So I adapted this idea to Halloween and used witch hats strung across my mantle. I think I would do leaves for after Halloween, or maybe turkeys. And stockings for Christmas! Felt is pretty cheap too, and it can go a long way. Which makes it nice to work with. 

It took almost a whole piece of felt to cut out 10 hats. And took hardly any to cut out the purple and yellow. I just looked online for a good hat to trace and cut it out of paper to use as a guide for my felt. To hold it all together I just used 3 stitches for each hat. That doesn't leave it super secure, but I won't have anyone bugging them at my house, so they should last just fine. 

I'm excited to find other fun decoration ideas for this season! I already have some seasonal fabric that I am going to make a couch pillow from. And I'll have to add to my wreath. I may make a different wreath just for fun and put it on a door inside the house, or just hang it on the wall. I love all the possibilities!