Easter Mantel Garland

{ if only we had a mantelpiece}

Christmas and Easter are only two of the occasions when I regret that we no longer have a fire place and hence no mantelpiece. I asked Lovely Husband the other day if we could have a mantel without the fire place but he just laughed. Well, we’ve got lots of big windows and to keep with the bright and cheerful decoration theme for Easter I decided to make a simple garland to hang between the curtains.

It was really easy and it took less than an hour. The technique is very similar to the one I used for the Fabric Pinwheels – basically attach two pieces of fabric together with /vliesofix/ bondaweb and cut out in the desired form. I love silhouettes so I used some Easter cookie cutters I bought on my last trip to US last year for $1 – bargain. If you don’t have cookie cutters I am sure you can find ideas on the internet.

I ironed the front pieces to vliesofix/ bondaweb and than to canvas like fabric which I bough from Ikea a while back. It is not of great quality but it did perfect job for the back of the little garland motifs.

Have a lovely sunny weekend!

Love,

Irina xx

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