party streamers

My very crafty friend Little Ms. Firefly passed along this link to The Purl Bee Blog where I loved her idea of making  New Year’s Garland made of bright felt in various sized circles.  It was too late for me to make a New Year’s Garland, but I thought – why not use this same pattern for party “streamers” for my friend?

I help to decorate desks at work for people’s Birthday.  My very good friend will be celebrating her big day on January 26th so I decided to do something different for a change!

I went to Walm*art and stocked up on base colors of felt for only 20 cents a sheet.  Then I wanted MORE colors so I went to my local Michael’s Craft Store where the colors selection was plentiful albeit a little more expensive.

So far I have cut out all the felt multi-colored dots and just need to sew them together.  I have purchase all the supplies including the transparent thread *who knew there was such a thing?*

Also, my husband bought me a new *inexpensive* sewing machine so I could get my craft on!

I’ll post a picture  just as soon as I decorate her desk in the coming week.  You could use this idea to decorate for any occasion.  My son just joined the U.S. Air Force.  He also graduates High School this year so we’ll have a big party for him before he heads out to boot camp.  I suspect doing this very same project for him, in the Air Force colors of course

**update**  1/27/10

Here is how my friends desk turned out:

Just a few things.  After taking hours to cut out the felt dots it would be a shame to discard them.  However, if not folded properly could become a big tangled mess.   I found that by folding a thick newspaper section in two and wrapping the dotted garland around and around *like they use to do for Christmas lights to keep them neat and tidy* they will not become tangled.

My son found this dotted wrapping paper used for her background walls at the dollar store.  The balloons were also purchased at the dollar store to add some more happiness   Zachary came to work with me and helped me jazz up her desk.

This was a fun project.  Cannot wait to do more!

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