Adventures in Home Decorating: Valentine's Day Garland

I don't have a fireplace

or a mantle.

But I love garlands! 

My parents just moved to a new town house 

and now my Mom has 2 fireplaces and 2 mantles!

So, now when I get the itch to make a garland, 

I can just send it to her! 

Mom~ If your package didn't come yet, DON'T SCROLL DOWN!

Here is my Valentine's Day garland...

Supplies: Felt, yarn, glitter glue, needle, cardboard and scissors

Make a bunch of hearts of different sizes and colors.

 The longer your garland, the more hearts you will need.

 I wanted to add the word "LOVE" to the middle section, so I made some triangles and traced the letters

And added some glitter glue

I measured my yarn and then lined up all the hearts and letters in the pattern I wanted to have them on the yarn. I am much to Type A to just go random on this! I have a thing with symmetry...I cant help it.

 Tie a loop at one end of the yarn and start stitching a few stitches down the center of each heart. I used a plastic knitting needle for this because the eye hole is large enough for the yarn. It was a little hard to push through the felt, but I made it work. Every once and a while move all the hearts down to the end of the line...

 For 3 of the hearts in between the letters, I glued a contrasting heart over the stitched heart. This will help keep the hearts from shifting on the yarn. 

I packed it up and sent it off to my mom. When she gets it up, I will post a picture!