Fall Felt Leaf Garland

I was really inspired by this adorable felt leaf garland from Pottery Barn Kids but not willing to shell out $60 bucks for it. I created my own garland for under $5 and I love the way it turned out. This is a really easy one day project. I happened to have an unopened package of 1" brown binding to use to attach the leaves to; however any length of ribbon would work as well. I purchased 1-2 pieces each of burgundy, orange, brown, yellow, light orange and bright orange sheets of regular craft felt. If you want to give your leaves a sturdier look, I recommend sewing two sheets together for each leaf. I found a variety of leaves in Microsoft Clip Art Online, enlarged them a bit and printed them out. Then I cut out the leaves and pinned them onto two sheets of felt using sewing pins andcut out around them. Once all the leaves are cut out of felt I choose a burgundy/dark brown thread and stitched simple lines on each leaf using my sewing machine to create the veins. Then I lined all the leaves up along the binding mixing up the different patterns and colors, pinned them in place and then stitched them onto the binding using my machine.