This is a re-post from February 13, 2008. It is such a great technique that I thought I would share it again. In fact, I love this garland so much I leave it up all year.
I really have a thing about garlands and buntings. I find flags/garlands/buntings so hard to photograph so I apologize for the quality of my photos. However, I'm so excited! I used my new stiff fabric technique that I learned about to make fabric paper airplanes and made this fun garland out of fabric.
Last week I saw on Chicago Apartment Therapy and then on bb-blog the fabulous heart flag garlands designed by Cori Kindred. Her garlands are made of vintage paper and really are so wonderful. Looks like she sold out of them in her Etsy shop (see her image at right - you can click on it to enlarge). You can now find them in Cori's web store.
I decided with my new stiff paper technique that I wanted to make some of my own and had fabric on hand that would kind of replicate her papers. So I set to work and am really tickled with how they turned out!
First of all, I want to say that I felt a little funny about blogging about an item that I basically copied the idea from. So I contacted Cori to ask permission to blog about mine and show hers and she was kind
enough to give me the OK.
I used the fabric origami technique I mentioned in this post to stiffen the paper. When dry, I cut out the fabric in various square and rectangle sizes. I used a large heart paper punch to punch out the hearts. I then steam-ironed the end of the fabric over a pencil so that I would be able to string the fabric pieces. When complete, I strung the garland over hemp twine.
There are larger pictures here and below. Sorry about the craziness of my mantle. I have Aidan rocks (he gives me rocks and pebbles from every place he visits), Ephraim pottery, a dusty clock, dead daffodils, chalkboard Valentines from Aidan and paper Valentines
I love these pertty little hearts. Great project.
Posted by: celebrate CREATIVITY in all its forms | January 16, 2009 at 09:25 PM
I love the sound of this great idea and am definitely going to make it. This month I challenged myself to learn how to make origami peace cranes but now I'm adding this to my January list as well! So glad I happened upon your blog today!
Posted by: Diane Schuller | January 16, 2009 at 09:31 AM
Valentine's day! It's over a month away! Besides, I was too busy watching Daniel Craig on The Daily Show tonight...
Posted by: S Yanoff | January 13, 2009 at 11:34 PM
I might have to give this a go. I have a ton of paper cut out of a book (made a hidden compartment book) that would be fun for this.
Posted by: nyjlm | January 13, 2009 at 09:23 PM
those are cuuuute!
Posted by: ren | January 13, 2009 at 05:54 PM