Decorate your homes with smiles and vibrant colours - Felt sticks ☺

Hi all! I hope the past week was great.

Today’s DIY is in the home decor category - Make your own felt sticks. Stick them into a vase or an empty jar and you are good to go. So let’s get started and make some colourful and eye-catching felt sticks.

I am going to show three different designs for these felt sticks. However, you need not be limited to these; you can use your own imagination and create your own design. A wonderful place where you can draw some inspiration is a kid’s room or your favourite cartoon. For the stick itself, you can use any thin wooden stick. A thin bamboo stick is something I am using (the same that are used to make kites).

The first thing to do is to make sure that the sticks (on which your felt motifs will be pasted) are of the right size. This will depend on your choice of jar or vase. The sticks should be long enough to stand out of the jar. Drop some pebbles inside the jar to make sure that the sticks get a firm stand.

You can use self-adhesive green tape that is used for flower decoration, crepe paper streamers or half inch satin ribbon for covering the sticks. I have used all of the above for different sticks. You could also paint your sticks with your favourite colours. Follow the pictures below to see how to go about wrapping the sticks.

Pattern 1

This one is a smiley face pattern. I’ve used yellow and a little bit of red felt, black embroidery thread and paste-on googly eyes. Remember, you need two of each of these patterns, that need to be pasted together around the stick.

While pasting the two sides together, stuff some cotton in between to give the motif a 3D effect. Follow the pictures below to create the pattern.

This sure will bring a smile to your face.

Pattern 2

This is a simple sunflower motif, with yellow felt and black embroidery thread.  

This is a quick one, look at the pictures below to make this one in no time.

Pattern 3

This one is a pattern with some quilling designs on a round felt motif. For this, you require orange felt cloth, some quilling strips and yellow embroidery thread. All that you have to do is make some beautiful quilling patterns from the strips (follow this post to see how to create quilling patterns) and stick them on the felt cloth. Stitch the two faces with the embroidery thread.

Here’s how to do it :

I hope you liked the idea and this post. Make your own felt sticks and do share them here.

Happy crafting until next week.