DIY Needle Felted Photo Garland: A Perfect Way to Display Memories

I wanted to find a creative way to display some prints in my daughter’s room. As a keen needle felter, I decided to get out my needle and wool and create a garland to hold a selection of family photos, going for a colour scheme that would tie in with my daughter’s newly painted pink wall.

Hearts felt like the perfect choice to complement a photo collection of much loved family and friends, but the options of what you could make to decorate your garland are endless (depending on your felting skills of course!).

For speed, ease and to achieve a uniform size and shape I used a heart shaped cookie cutter (a handy shortcut for needle felting basic shapes) and then threaded them on to jute string, spacing them roughly 4 inches apart. Small pegs are readily available online and I went for a mix of clear and wooden pegs to hold the photos in place.

It was a simple process to upload my selection of favourite family photos to the OddPrints website and enter my custom measurements. I wanted square prints and opted for 4 x 4 inches, the distance between the hearts on my garland. The recently updated editing page also gave me the option to adjust the colour and brightness of my images, which was brilliant and really easy.

The images arrived beautifully printed on 6" x 4" paper and I was thrilled with the quality. I simply needed to trim off the excess border from the top and bottom with scissors to get my 4" x 4" prints ready for hanging. My daughter couldn’t stop looking through her prints and was keen to help hang them (luckily the matte lustre finish they came with seems a lot less susceptible to little finger prints than a gloss finish!). She is delighted with the finished garland and regularly marches visitors to the house into her room to admire it.