Felt Fall Pumpkin Garland

Hello everybody and happy fall. My name is Emily and I am gonna make, or I will show you how to make this super cute, kind of, um, cartoonish-looking felt garland. It's one of those things where I decided I needed to make a fall craft that used up some of my felt scraps because if we've ever met before, either in person or online, I use felt a ton and so I find myself constantly having little squares or little leftovers of felt, and this project is perfect for that. It's also very fall and happy with its shapes and the texture of the felt, which I really love. So I'm eager to show you all my tips and tricks on how to make it, and I'm excited to show you kind of how I tie it all together, but before we get started, I just wanna tell you the full written instructions are in the PDF pattern, which you can just grab or download by clicking the link.

So if there's anything that you missed or something you have questions about, hopefully those written instructions will also help you answer it or if you're making it later or bringing it to a friend's house and having a fall crafting party, download those instructions and for what it's worth. This technique that we're gonna kind of do, I, I was thinking as I was driving here, I'm like, you could also do this with like leaves, anything that has some kind of organic shapes and like the, you know, the, um, sections of the pumpkin or kind of organic shapes and the veins of the leaves. So maybe you get inspired by the technique I'm gonna show you today and you can translate it to so many different things. So, um, also there's a chat box that I wanna bring your attention to because I love when people ask questions or chime in with comments or chime in and say, "Oh, I love that, but this is how I do it" because I think community, especially in the crafting world, is so cool because oftentimes there's more than one way to do things, so I think it's really cool, so chime in from where you are or what you're doing this fall or any comment you have on the project or maybe if you're in the depths of Halloween costume making like I have not even started for my children. That's a different conversation because I'm just really excited about this fall garland.

So, okay, let's get started. What you're gonna need, um, or you can have your own pumpkin shapes is, um, I have the pumpkin pattern. There's two different, uh, pumpkin sort of shapes that I sketched out and you'll see that on the pattern itself there's the lighter gray lines. Those are our lines for sewing, and then I have my favorite colors of felt. I have a lot, and see, this is what I mean by scraps.

I end up having, like, what, these little moments, and they're worth saving because I never want to throw them away, and look, it fits the pumpkin shape just lovely, and look at I have another scrap that's exactly the same sort of weird odds, so this is a great scrap buster. I'm a big fan of felt that has a polyester wool blend. You, of course, can buy any felt in your local craft store or whatever you have lying around. Use it up. Don't go buy something new unless you absolutely have to, or if there's a color that you're absolutely needing, but I, I personally love a wool blend felt.

And I'm sure if you've, if you've seen me teach before, I've taught I've said this before. The reason is this. Um, okay, so I'm using actually both today because I want to show you both that I have, and I, I will cut out both and show you. So this color right here is a wool blend and it's not you can't stretch it, you can't pull it, you can't misshape it. Oftentimes with a full polyester blend, look at this.

I can stretch it and completely misshape it. Now I'm still gonna use it today because I have it on hand, and I love this color, and I wasn't gonna go buy something new. I personally just love a wool blend felt. They come in 90/10, 80/20, 70/30. I find the sweet spot is like an 80 20 or 70/30, and oftentimes this kind of felt is bought on a bolt, not in a sheet.

Oftentimes, not always. Your local craft store generally actually has felt on a bolt that would be a polyester blend felt, not just polyester, so just maybe move away from the aisle where they're pre-filtered pre- cut sheets to the bolt area to see if they have that. If they don't, just buy the polyester blend or the polyester felt. So, okay, I love color. Colors are my favorite things in the land.

So when I'm picking out my felt colors, I just want to show you kind of how this meanders, the color meanders from I have browns to golds to the typical orange to some pinks and then to some tans. I love color in our house. I love displaying color with holidays, so I would encourage you to think outside of the orange realm, maybe if you're like, oh, I just really want warm colors because I love the colors of fall, maybe then just just stick with the browns and the yellows and the oranges. I encourage you always add pink. I'm not a red person, but maybe you love red and you want to add red in here.

If you ever struggle with color, pull up the color wheel on your phone or your iPad or your computer and it will answer a lot of questions for you on how you can kind of add in different colors that are unexpected or that you wouldn't gravitate towards. So I've chosen this color palette; that's what I tend to love. I love kind of warm, unexpected colors in the fall with this little purply kind of lavender color with it. So the first step is pick your colors. The second step is to cut your felt out.

Whenever you're doing two layers of felt, it's way easier if you just cut two layers of felt at the same time, even if it is a scrap. So we need to make an orange pumpkin and we need to make a gold pumpkin. So, we have orange here, and I have two different shapes. You can use all one shape, you can use all the other shape. I used both different shapes just because one's a little bit taller than the other; totally your call.

But all I'm gonna do I cut out my layers of pumpkins. You can use claw clips if you'd like. You can use pins if you'd like. And the coolest thing about cutting an organic shape is if you mess it up, nobody's gonna notice and nobody's gonna care, because pumpkins are not all the same shape and they're sure as heck not symmetrical from left to right. So if something goes awry, nobody's really gonna notice, which I love.

Sharp scissors are gonna be your friend with felt. I always tell people when I'm teaching little kids how to cut, I tell them to use a chicken wing arm with their right hand. Because you want to keep this hand steady with just cutting, and this hand is the hand that's gonna move. We're working with curves, so this hand, I'm right handed, so my scissors are in my right hand and my chicken wing arm, and then I'm gonna use my left hand to move my fabric. So I'm gonna cut this chunk off, but basically what I mean by that is this: I will simply open and close only with this hand, and this, my my left hand is the hand that's moving things back and forth.

It's a lot easier because if you've ever tried to cut and you end up moving your arm and elbow around, it's really hard to have control over the scissors. Um, especially when you're cutting smooth curves, you want them even though they don't have to be the exact in shape, you want them not to be choppy, you want it to be smooth if possible. And when you're cutting out two layers at a time, if you make a mistake on the top layer, you'll just generally have the same mistake on the bottom layer, so that's why it really doesn't matter. I'm going to cut these little bits off. Um, an option is if you don't have polyfill today, which is what we're gonna be stuffing our pumpkins with to make them a little bit fluffy, if you're like, I don't have polyfill, um, you can either use some cotton balls if you have cotton balls, or you can cut these up into little tiny like confetti scraps and stuff your pumpkins.

With these little confetti scraps, if you're like I don't know what polyfill is or where I have it, or if your kid has like an old stuffy or something, do not take something they love, but if there's an old stuffy or pillow that you're about to give away or throw away, that's always something easily you can raid and take the stuffing from. I'm gonna cut out a few of these. So that you see both shapes. This is the only bummer thing about felts: it gets these weird creases, which I don't love. And because you can't really, um, iron felt super well without, I mean, you could iron it on low temperature without it melting because there is gonna be some um, polyester in here, but.

OK. I haven't quite figured out. Maybe you have a tip. If anybody has a tip on how to get rid of the creases in felt, let me know. I'm sure there's a way, um.

That you could maybe use steam, I don't know. I'm sure I could Google it, but maybe somebody has a tip. I generally feel like if you sew it, you don't see it as much, but sometimes it does throw me. Whenever I'm cutting out of a bigger piece, I always try to save as much as I can. One of my biggest pet peeves is when I'm sewing with my daughter, and maybe you can say this if you have kids or you teach kids, is when there's a giant piece of felt and she cuts directly out of the center of it and you're like, oh, it's all that wasted space.

I think it inevitably happens with paper construction paper too. Kids just get excited about what they're doing and don't think about it. So, I'm moving my left hand to make sure that these curves are nice and straight, and I even just botched that one up, but we'll try and straighten that out, and away we go. Take out these little bits, throw that in the pile, and then I save my scraps in another pile for another day. Um, here, so I have my 2.

Pumpkins, pumpkin 1, pumpkin 2, and they're not perfect and that's how I like it. We'll also need to cut a stem out. So I like the sort of Cinderella-ish pumpkins. I don't know if that's what they're really called, where the stem is kind of thicker on the top and thinner at the bottom. It's just like a straight stem.

So that's the shape that I have on your pattern, but it looks kind of like a, um, I don't know, I am not a math person, a, a an uneven parallelogram, is that what you would call this or an uneven triangle or a rectangle, because I, when I fold it, I want the tip to be. Wider than the bottom, so it looks kind of like a reverse bow tie. Maybe that's what we should call it. I'm gonna also use all these little scraps. Hmm, here we go.

Oh, I have some cut out. Here we go, but let's do this guy. You can either cut it fully straight like this, or because it's going to be folded, I would encourage you. To lay this and keep your folded edge on the fold of the fabric. I'm not gonna pin this because I feel like I'm just gonna cut my pins.

I'll just use my like my pinchy fingers to hold it. And because it doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't matter if it is actually perfect. But here is my stem. Simple. Telling you, you can use all your scraps.

It is awesome. So if you don't have a sewing machine, you 100% could hand stitch this if you're feeling very Hand stitchy. It could be really, really, really beautiful, the hand stitches with the big kind of running sashiko kind of up and down stitching, if you will. I'm gonna sew this on my sewing machine just because I feel like it gives this very, like sort of organic, more like doodle look with the stitches, which I really enjoy. So, it's super simple.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna show you on the pattern piece and then I'll show you as I'm stitching it. It feels so complicated. It's all written in the instructions, but I promise you it's so easy. So if we look at our pattern piece, the first thing, and this would be the same as if you're if you're drawing a pumpkin or if I were to teach you how to draw a pumpkin, you'd start with the center circle. So I'm gonna put my needle down here and I'm gonna stitch up near the top, up here is where my stem will be.

So I'll catch my stem in this top stitch, work my way down. I will pause, stuff some stuffing in, and then complete my oval. So the first thing you're doing is starting your center oval. You're not cutting your thread until we get completely done stitching. So stitch my center oval, pause, stuff it, calm down right here if you go over the bottom here you can look at this here.

If you go over the bottom again, great, if you line up perfectly, if you don't, no big deal. Then I'm gonna do my left side. So I will go on the outside of my left side before I completely close this section. I'll stuff a little bit of stuffing in it, come up to the top. It meets my center oval and then come right down and stitch through my stuffing to the bottom and that completes the left side of my pumpkin.

That's when I have stuffing inside of my pumpkin already and I'm stitching it, it kind of makes it extra stuffy or extra padded, I think. Now we'll do the same thing to the right side because when you do the left we're gonna do the right, so I'll go, I'm not cutting my thread, going all the way around the outside coming up touching the middle circle. Before I do that, I need to add stuffing in there, touch the middle circle, and then just come right down, stitch through the stuffing. Anchor your stitch, and you're done. So middle, left, outside.

Left little side inside, deal right outside, right inside, deal so middle, outside, inside, outside, inside, and it's all one long stitch. So I hope that makes sense. I'm gonna do it a few times on my sewing machine so that you can see it. Um, I'm gonna actually, these comments are super cool. Jenny says it'd be fun to make a spooky version with jack-o'-lantern faces.

Oh my word, yes, you totally could. That all—oh, I love that idea, Jenny. Um, you totally 100% could; you could either add, you know, the black little like mouth, you know, triangle eyes or whatever on top of it, glue it on. Afterwards, stitch it on as you're stitching. You could have negative space, or even cooler is if you had a layer of, um, black or dark inside here and you could cut away the eyeballs or the face or the nose or whatever.

That is now my brain is turning, Jenny. That's a super, super good idea, and I feel like that'd be really really fun, and that'd be a fun like porch decoration because you can make them even bigger too. OK, I'm gonna pull my, um, sewing machine in. I'm going to grab a needle here because generally I do not, um, use needles too often, but what I want to do is first of all pull open my, um, two layers, stick the folded tip of my pumpkin in here, and the one thing I didn't mention—the reason why it's on the fold is because this is what makes it easy to put our garland string through. So I'm putting my opening, this opening.

Fold it, put the opening in the top of my pumpkin. And I want to keep that in place to start with. So all I'm doing is inserting my needle to keep that in place to start with. So this is what it looks like for me right now. It's just the pumpkin and the needle and the top of it.

So I'm starting at the bottom of my pumpkin, remember, and making my center. Um, oval. Lauren is asking, would felt sheets from the dollar store work? Are they too thin? Honestly, I don't know why they wouldn't work, because this isn't something that needs to be like ultra durable, so 100%, I feel like felt sheets would work, and for that matter, you could make this out of, out of paper.

I've sewn paper before and done like pillowy paper. That could be really cool too if you're like, I don't know, Or if you want to help a kid learn how to sew, that's a really good idea too. But I can't imagine why the dollar store sheets wouldn't work. I feel like they're just polyester. Um, I don't know, maybe somebody has a comment on it.

But I don't know why they wouldn't work. That'd be really cool, and that would make this like a super easy, approachable, affordable project. So I'm coming up from the bottom. I'm nearing the top where my, uh, stem is. I'm just gonna take away my needles so I don't sew over it because I've broken far too many needles by sewing over them.

So I've learned my lesson, but I want to make sure that I can feel my needle grabbing or, um, making sure it's stitching the stem in the top. So it's just the center oval, but before I get to the bottom, I'm gonna pause my sewing machine. Whenever I stop, it keeps my needle down. If your sewing machine does not, there's a big knob over on the side of your sewing machine and you'll just turn that until your needle goes down because you want to keep your needle where it is but lift up your foot, and that's gonna give me a little bit of room where I can take a little bit and when I say a little bit, I mean like such a little bit because you don't want it to be like ultra puffy where it's so stiff and sturdy because you want it to be like flexible and fun and. Be able to move on the garland, so just a little bit.

And you're going to use your fingers or a pencil or the tip of your scissors just to kind of squish into that middle section because remember we're stuffing that middle oval first. Sometimes you get like a dowel or a really fancy stuffing sort of tool if you have that, use that. Foot back down. And come down to the middle, and then I'm gonna start my left side. So I'm gonna go around the outside of my left side, and you can see my pumpkin isn't lined up perfectly anymore.

That doesn't bother me. If that bothers you, you might want to, um, pin your pumpkin to start with a little bit better. Before I finish that outside C, I'm gonna do the same thing where I lift up my foot but keep my needle where it is. Stuff it with not too much stuffing. It feels like a tedious project, but they get done really fast, which means I feel like it's really high reward.

Complete your letter C, come up and touch the middle oval. Keep your needle down, lift your foot, and then pivot to do that outer middle C or parentheses shape. OK. I love all the comments we're getting in with all these suggestions. This is amazing.

OK, so then I'm back down to the bottom. Now I'm doing my outside backwards C or my other parentheses. And you know what I'm thinking about this right now? If you're a lefty, maybe you start with the right first. Start with whichever side feels most comfortable to you.

I go from left to right just because that's what I feel like I can move around in my sewing machine. Finishing my outside curve, but before I complete it, I'm gonna pause, keep my needle in, lift my foot up, and then add a little bit of stuffing. This side is hard because I don't know, it always feels harder to me. This is where I always need my pencil or my scissors or my dowel to stuff the stuffing in because my fingers just don't fit. Foot down, finish the parentheses or the backwards letter C, come up to the top oval, needle back down again, lift your foot, and then finish the stitching.

Whoop. Oh, I have a lot of stuffing right there and my sewing machine is not happy with me. I love that when I'm live teaching that all the problems always happen. So this may happen where your machine is like, what did you just do because you're sewing through a super thick amount. What I did there is I squished all of my stuffing into one spot and now my sewing machine is mad at me and it got stuck.

So I'm just gonna insert my scissors and cut out the bottom part. And all I have to do is probably trim away. Some of this. Oh Lordy, yeah, it's nice and stuck in there; you can see right here it's like all super stuffy. So here's the thing though, this is not a super precise project so sure, could you toss this one away or try to unstitch the stitching and say, oh, that's that I'm gonna chalk that one up to mistake?

Sure, but here's the thing: it doesn't bother me if the back of my pumpkin has a little bit of a what people usually call a bird's nest of fabric. That's not gonna bother me because it's not um. It's um, it's still secure, I guess is what I'm trying to say. It's not like where it's all messled and mangled where it's like it's gonna come apart, but it's still pretty secure, and if it's just a thicker sort of area, that's not gonna bother me too much. So what I'm gonna do is first of all, try and work that stuffing out a little bit more so it's more even.

And then insert my needle and just finish up this. Oh, my sewing machine always makes me turn it off, but I'm going to insert my needle and just finish that stitch line, because it does not bother me that it's not going to be a perfect stitch line, because to me this is just not a perfect craft, and I like that. If you're worried that it's not going to be, um, sturdy enough, you can always anchor your stitch or do like a quick little back stitch like I just did. And now, oh my word, you guys. I don't think it's threaded properly.

That's probably the issue that happened from the very beginning. Isn't it Murphy's law that when you're teaching something to somebody, that this is when the mistakes happen, but you know what, it's real life. That's what I like to say this is, I feel like it's not sewing, um, if it, if something doesn't happen. Somebody just asked what brand of sewing machine I use. I'm using a Janome, and it is one of my most favorite sewing machines.

I've, I've sewn on a Janome forever. Here's my issue. My bobbin is having problems. Um, I've sewn on a Janome forever and I love it. I love my favorite part, which many sewing machine companies have, is the little button with the scissors on it, so that it cuts my threads when I'm done stitching.

I know that that's not like the most amazing. Um, or like innovative technology, but to me it is. I'm just undoing this part that looks like it's strange because the reason I love it is because I feel like you, um, waste less thread as I'm unwinding my bobbin here. It, I didn't wind it properly, so it was pretty loose. That's why I think it had that little issue.

Okay, I'm just gonna re-thread this. This is specifically a 9480. This machine is a workhorse. I feel like I can sew so many things on it, and I love it. I've been a Janome girl forever.

I just love the way that they look. I feel like I know all the buttons. I love the way that they sew. I have all their bobbins. I have all the needles.

Sometimes, when you switch sewing machine brands, the needles and the bobbins don't talk to each other very well, so I feel like. It's one of those things you're like, you just get used to it and love it, but I know there are a lot of other incredible sewing machine companies out there that are, um, just as amazing. OK. Here we go, look at this. It's not perfect, but now I have 100 million threads to clip on the back.

But this is the point, I guess, of this project, so maybe it's good that this happened. I love that it is more of like an organic shape, that it looks almost doodled. That is the kind of goal I was going for when I was trying to make this project. You can see that I have have my center oval. My left outside parentheses or letter C, my inside, and then my right and my right.

You can see where I dropped my needle again, and this isn't like the most even perfect letter or backwards parenthesis or backwards letter C, but I don't care. Maybe it bothers you, and if it bothers you then just set it aside and maybe see if you can make a different one. The one thing I also want to point out is that if you look super closely, my two layers of felt are not perfectly aligned, because you can see my bottom layer of felt, excuse me, is coming out of the bottom down here. If that bothers you, just clip it and make it even. I love it.

I really love this sort of, um, doodled look. I'm gonna do this other one really quickly just so you can see it on a darker material, because it might be easier to see. And this is the bigger pumpkin. So I'm gonna insert my stem, pin it on from the top, and if you really want everything to be super even, you might want to put a pin in the left and the right. It does not bother me.

I'm gonna start at the bottom with my center oval. Make sure I grab my top stem as I'm going around. One thing I should note, too, um, because sewing curves can feel super tricky to some people, when I first started sewing curves, I decided I wanted to make this Christmas bulb garland, and I, it was a very curvy. Um, the one thing I feel like is a tip for sewing curves is to slow down. And like, keep your, keep your fabric flat and really just like force the curve.

Don't pull or push your fabric if that makes sense. I don't know if that makes any sense because you don't want to pull your fabric through the curve because then you're gonna elongate your stitches and it's not gonna be as secure and you don't want to push it through to create puckers. What I do is I just literally keep it flat and I'm like kind of pushing down on my sewing machine as I'm forcing it to go into the curve if that makes sense, um. I feel like, and I'm using my fingertips to push down or my whole hand just depending on how uh big my piece of fabric is, but I'm, I slow down quite a bit on the curvy curvy part and then I speed up, you can probably hear my sewing machine even speeding up as I get to the more like straight edges. I'd finished my oval.

I'm working on my outside left larger letter C, keeping my needle down. I'm stuffing, making sure not to stuff it too full this time. Um, stuffing some stuffing in there. Coming up to the top oval. Needle down.

Finish my left side. Oh, it's kind of a big bunch. When I come down to the bottom. It's almost like you just want to guide your fabric forcefully through your sewing needle. I don't really know how else to describe that.

I really just, I want you, I wanna just say don't push or pull. Pulling also with felt can um screw the shape up of it, which isn't probably that big of a deal with this, this fabric. This side always gives me trouble. Here we go. Oh, this is maybe a lot.

Oh, we'll see, we'll see if my. Thread has issues this time. Trying to spread it on there, OK. Foot down. Come up to the center, needle down, foot up, and then I'll finish out.

Right here. And if you want to do a quick back stitch at the bottom, you can. I'll do that really quick. Cut your thread. That's the thing I love about this machine.

It has a little thread cutter. The opposite of that would be where I'd have to pull this out, clip my bobbin and top thread. I just feel like it wastes a lot, and look at it, it’s really, really quick, so it’s a really sort of like easy soul. I love it. I love the way these look.

I love that you can turn this into a garland or truthfully, you can make these little gift toppers. You could embroider somebody’s name on them and make them into magnets. That would be really cool too. I’m just gonna pop over and see if there’s any other questions. Oh, thread.

Oh, here’s the dreaded question about thread. And I feel like I’m probably not the best person to have to answer this. I love 100% cotton thread. I know that’s not what a lot of people will say. The reason is, I sew a lot of felt, and I feel like cotton and felt talk to each other and work really well.

That also means though what just happened to me where it kind of can get picky about how it gets wound in the bobbin. It feels like that happens more with cotton thread than it does with polyester thread or nylon thread or other kinds of thread. I love the brand I have in here is Guderman’s, um. So I don’t know. I don’t know if that’s like I I, I don’t— the one thing about thread is I know there are a lot of people that have a lot of dos and don’ts with threads.

I am not one of those people. I’m really not one of those people in a lot of areas of life where there’s hard black and whites. I really think it’s what you prefer, what your sewing machine likes, what your sewing machine works well with, and the fabric that you’re sewing with. And I found that 100% cotton, and I do use 100% polyester. I don’t use a lot of blends just because I don’t feel like it works well, and it just doesn’t, I don’t know, my sewing machine doesn’t like it.

It just feels like it breaks more. Um, yeah, but maybe somebody has a comment on that. When I was driving in, as I was coming to the studio today, I also thought, hey, you know those inexpensive wreath forms that you can get that have, um, already like, you know, black ivy on them or something for Halloween or for fall. Or maybe it's like brown that you can just easily stick on your door. How cute would this be to hot glue a few of these around in there?

That, I think, would also be a super easy way. You can make five or six of them, and it would add such an impact, or maybe cluster them in the corner on like a wreath form or something. I feel like we have a big mantle, and I love garlands on our mantle, so all I want to do today now is sew. It's, it's rainy and drizzly here in Minnesota, so I feel like it's a great sewing day, but, um, the last step if you want to turn this into a garland. I grab your thread or your whatever yarn, ribbon, whatever it is, grab a needle, and I feel like it's next to impossible to thread something onto a garland without a needle, so I feel like I keep, um, needles that have larger eyes near me often.

You can also use those little kids' plastic, um, needles which are like, you know, they're like bright blue or bright pink. I feel like often, and they're like one dollar, they're really cheap. So, all you're gonna do is. Stick your needle or your ribbon or your twine or whatever it is through this looped top. You, if you really feel picky, you could do make sure that the front is to the front.

I don't feel like there's really a front or back to a lot of these, but all you're gonna do is string these on here. And voila, you have the cutest colorful fall garland in the whole land that you can give to your neighbor or make for your grandma or your auntie, or make with your kids if you have a fall day off with your kids. This is a really fun introduction to sewing because none of the lines need to be super precise, but I mean, how does this make you mad? How does this not make you happy for fall? It's colorful and it's adorable, and I feel like it's one of those projects that I can truly get behind because not only does it bust up my scraps, it uses cute, colorful felt.

It's not super precise, and I could probably listen to a book or a movie and have a hot beverage next to me as I'm making it. So, um, oh, question, this is a super good question. And if you're here in the States, this is probably the question that everybody is talking about: where can you get your materials now that Joann's is gone, Isn't that just the saddest thing? Um, I do know Michael's if you are a big-box store shopper. A lot of Michael's have, they for sure have felt.

Now, Michael's has some stores that are smaller, so they're called, I think, abbreviated stores that don't have any fabric, but they, I think, are starting to carry more fabric, and they're kind of, um, they've bought out or they're absorbing a lot of the Joanne's line or Joanne's specific brands of things like a lot of their textiles, which are like felt, yarn, um, cotton. I know they have cottons. I know they have like faux furs, things like that. It is a gigondo bummer that there isn't a lot of local stores that have fabric. Walmart has some stuff, but I don't know, that's kind of hit and miss depending on the area.

I would really encourage you to find a local store because we have a local store around here in the Twin Cities, um, Minneapolis area that is like a warehouse full of every kind of fabric you'd ever want, and it is the best place to get sucked out of time. Your phone just happens to not work in the middle of the warehouse, which I think is convenient because nobody can call you and interrupt your shopping experience, um, but find, like, search out any like wholesale. Um, warehousey sort of fabric stores, I feel like they do exist in the bigger cities, and it might be a little bit of a drive, but it could be a fun drive with a friend, and you can go cut your own. It's a lot of like cut-your-own sort of stuff. Online is hard because you don't know the colors.

I've never really been a huge fan of shopping online for felt just because I personally struggle with the color of things, and color is a big deal to me, so sometimes what I see on my phone is not always what I get. Um, yeah, I don't know, that's a really lame answer, but I would check out Michael's if you are a big-box store shopper, and then try and see if there's anything local or if there is a local quilt store. I almost wonder if they could order things for you because they probably have their hands in a lot of other companies that have other fabrics if you're not finding exactly what you need there. Put the feelers out there, find a Facebook community that maybe can answer locally for you, but that's probably not a good answer, but . I'm super excited about this garland.

I'm so glad that we had people popping in to join us. I love, um, that it sounds like it's an easy Project. People are excited about how easy the project is, and I would agree. I think it's really fun and happy and very fall- fall driven, so grab your hot beverage, invite your friends over to get some crafting done. Thank you for joining us.

This was so fun. And I know that, um, there are a lot of other fall-themed, whether it's crochet or other sort of baking or other sewing projects, so be sure to tune into those or look back in the archives for all of those amazing, super fun fall crafty activities that we have for this month of October as we're leading up to, um, the holidays. So thanks for joining us. It was awesome crafting with you today.