I have a few different homemade garland strings for Christmas so I thought, “why not make some Easter garland?”
Since it snowed another 15cm this week, it was good week for crafting indoors. I always find myself making more Easter projects on years when Easter is later. With Easter on April 20, I see more Easter projects in my near future.
Either last year or the year before, I picked up this craft material from Dollar Tree or Dollarama. Even though I had no idea what I was going to make with it, I knew it was perfect for Easter. I bought three of these. My first garland was with material and every second strip I tied was this multi Easter colour material.
I cut 7” inch strips about 1/2” wide. I had a lot of pastel leftover material from my mom. I tried to find solids in all the different colours found in the Easter material.
I used some burlaps twine and just started tying each strip on; multi, solid, multi, solid.
Here is how it looked after the first section.
This first garland took a few hours one afternoon between cutting and tying.
I love how it turned out.
The second garland I decided to put together was a knitted garland. Remember those paper chain garland that we used to make at school? This is the same thing only using knitted rings.
I cast on 25 stitches and knit four rows before casting off. Most of the yarn I used was a slightly thinner baby yarn (pastels..go figure) so I used 3.5mm needles.
To close the ring, I just wove one of these ends to bring it together.
When adding the next ring, you just slide it through before closing the ring.
This is really nice for Easter but would also look lovely as a baby room decoration.
This one took a little longer as I spent 10-15 min on each ring. I used a long tail cast on as I liked the way it looked better than a quicker cast on.
The last Easter garland I put together was using plastic Easter eggs. I had a collection of small eggs in a variety of colours that my mother in-law had given me years ago. The first step was cutting a hole in both ends of each egg. I decided to use a hammer and nail. The lightest hammer and a nail with a large head.
For most of the eggs, the plastic plug popped off after three gentle taps.
I did manage to crack a couple but after doing about 100 eggs, that was not too bad.
I used some white satin ribbon and a small enough darning needle to thread through each egg.
I made a small garland for the mantle and another for our railing, adding white eggs to that one.
Now I have three different garland for Easter (plus an extra egg one).
The three together is a bit busy but it really brightens up the room.
