10 Easy DIY Vintage Garland Ideas
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There’s nothing better than a festive garland hanging up in your house! Garlands are normally saved for special holidays or birthdays, but why not have them year round? It’s a great way to show off your favorite vintage fabric and retro paper ephemera.
I was featured in an article on Apartment Guide Blog about How to Add a Pop of Color Without Paint. Creating a garland is my favorite way! It’s so easy to do and temporary so you can switch out your garlands with the seasons.
Seed Packet Garland
Whether the seed packets are new or vintage, flowers or vegetables, they make the cutest garland! All you’ll need is some bakers twine and mini clothespins. I use regular scotch tape on each end of the twine and it works great! You can buy your own vintage seed packets for super cheap here.
Vintage Doll Clothesline
I have a three little vintage doll dresses that are adorable. I put the three dresses on clothespins and hung them up in my sewing room. It looked like a little doll had her laundry on the line!
Board Game Card Garland
I have a vintage Candyland board game and I love using the colorful cards as a garland. You can even make it more colorful by using rainbow clothespins.
Mushroom Plush Christmas Ornament Garland
I made this garland out of some plush toadstool Christmas ornaments and embroidery floss. These are from IKEA but Target always has a huge selection of plush ornaments at Christmastime. You can make any garland you want! I wrote a blog post detailing how I made the garland here.
Vintage Playing Cards Garland
Vintage playing cards are pretty easy to find at thrift stores and I love making an easy garland with them. See how easy it is to make a garland out of anything you want once you have bakers twine and little clothespins?
Potholder Garland
I haven’t done this one yet, I’m in the process of thrifting potholders right now. I’m planning on doing a rainbow garland with crochet potholders like these.
Vintage Greeting Cards Garland
You can do a simple card garland with 5 or so cards, or you can go big and do a huge rainbow garland. For the rainbow one I used medium size clothespins, some velvet ribbon and poster putty. Vintage greeting cards are basically art and deserve to be on display! You can find your own vintage cards to purchase here.
Sew Bunting
If you can sew then creating bunting is the ultimate garland. I used vintage feedsack fabric scraps to make this garland with single fold bias tape. It’s a great way to show off your favorite little scraps! I wrote a how to blog post for making bunting here.
Felt Cut Out Shape Garland
I made this felt Halloween garland 5+ years ago and I still bring it out every year. I found some basic ghost and bat shapes on Google and printed out a template. I cut the shapes out with felt sheets from Michaels and hot glued them to twine. No sewing required!
Fabric Strip Garland
I made this easy no sew garland out of strips of vintage sheet fabric for my wedding. I used my own fabric strips for this but you can buy your own kit at Vintage Fabric Studios Etsy shop.
Hankie Garland
Probably the easiest garland of them all! If you have some vintage hankies you just fold them in half and put them on a string. You can easily switch them out for different color schemes or use Christmas hankies during the holidays.
There you have it! 10 easy garland ideas (Actually there were 11 if you were counting). If you are a sewer be sure to check out other projects for your fabric scraps at my blog post 12 Fabric Scrap Projects.
