Easy DIY Burlap Mitten Garland! Try this Christmas sewing craft to add that rustic farmhouse element to your holiday decor!
Today is the last day of my 8 days of Christmas crafts! I’ve saved the BEST for last. This burlap mitten garland is one of my favourite homemade decorations.
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How to Make Your Burlap Mitten Garland
Burlap is everywhere in my home this Christmas season. I’ve been experimenting with new ways to use and display the extremely versatile material, and I couldn’t be happier with how this adorable holiday mitten garland turned out!
Materials
Note: you want a tight weave burlap so that it doesn’t fray as easily
- Natural Burlap
- White Burlap
- Red Burlap Ribbon
- Green Burlap Ribbon
- Coordinating, red, green, white, and brown thread
- Sewing machine
- Any ribbons, buttons, Red Ric Rac or Gold Ric Rac you want to decorate your mittens with!
- Glue gun
or 
you want to decorate your mittens with!Step-By-Step Tutorial for Your Burlap Mitten Garland
To begin, I cut my burlap into 3″ x 4.5″ rectangles. Then I found an outline of a mitten on Google that I liked (just search “mitten”!), copied it into a word document, and resized it so that it would fit within my fabric rectangles when printed.
I pinned the printed mitten print to the top two pieces of burlap, and sewed around the mitten print, using a coordinating thread. This will sew the two pieces of burlap together. I used two pieces because I wanted the mittens to be thick, and I didn’t want to be able to see through them.
Once they are sown together, cut just outside of the sewn thread line to reveal a perfect burlap mitten!
This is the fun part – decorate those mittens however you like! Since I have a lot of red, gold, and burlap decorations in my home this Christmas, I wanted to incorporate a lot of those elements. I added gold and red buttons to some mittens, and gold and red ric rac to others. Finally, I added strips of decorative burlap ribbon to the remaining ribbon.
I just LOVE how this burlap mitten garland turned out. Don’t the mittens look cute hanging above the burlap wreath?!
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Burlap Mitten Garland
Easy DIY Burlap Mitten Garland! Try this Christmas sewing craft to add that rustic farmhouse element to your holiday decor!
Materials
- Natural Burlap
- White Burlap
- Red Burlap Ribbon
- Green Burlap Ribbon
- (note: you want a tight weave burlap so that it doesn’t fray as easily)
- Coordinating, red, green, white, and brown thread
- Sewing machine
- Any ribbons, buttons, Red Ric Rac or Gold Ric Rac you want to decorate your mittens with!
- Glue gun
Instructions
- Cut your burlap into 3”x4.5” rectangles
- Copy and resize an outline of a mitten (search on Google for this). You want it to fit within the fabric rectangles when printed
- Pin the printed mitten print to the top two pieces of burlap, and sew around the mitten print, using a coordinating thread. This will sew the two pieces of burlap together.
- Cut just outside of the sewn thread line to reveal a perfect burlap mitten!
- Decorate those mittens however you like! I added gold and red buttons to some mittens, and gold and red ric rac to others.
- Finally, add strips of decorative burlap ribbon to the remaining ribbon.
Really cute! I love your other burlap decorations as well. So cute and so clever! Thanks for sharing. PINNED!
Thank you for pinning and sharing :) Burlap is one of my favourite things to use!
OMGosh, your garland is super, super cute! I love it! Visiting from Bewitching Projects Block Party! Pinned & Happy Holidays!
Thank you! Glad you could stop by and see it :)
so cute and so easy to make! love your burlap mitten garland and now I am thinking I might need one too!
Thank you!! It was very easy to make – shouldn’t be a problem with your skills!!
These are so, so cute! Or should I say, sew, sew cute! ;) Thank you for linking this up at Snickerdoodle Sunday- hope you’ll come back later this week with your latest makes!
Sarah (Sadie Seasongoods)
I will definitely be back again :) Thank you so much for the compliments!
Your burlap mitten garland is too cute! I love your burlap decor. Thanks so much for sharing at the Frugal Crafty Home Blog Hop! I wanted to stop by to pin and share your project on my Facebook page. Hope you are having a lovely week! xo
Thank you SO much Katie!! I saw that you shared the project :) So glad you found some inspiration here :)
These are really neat. It reminds me of something a family member use to make for Christmas and since has passed. We might have try doing these.
If you do try them, please let me know how it went!! I’d love to hear :) I loved them too! Thanks for stopping by!
This is the sweetest thing, I love how it came out. I am going to be featuring your post on my blog at Tuesdays with a Twist link party this week, make sure you stop by for a peek. Have a great week. :-)
Thank you so much Debra!! I can’t wait to stop by and see the feature!
Oh my gosh I am in love with this garland! How clever! Thank you for sharing at Merry Monday! Even though we won’t be having a link up this week, your post is my featured from last week’s party. You can check it out tonight at 6 PST.
Thank you SO much for the feature :) Glad you liked my garland!!
What a CUTE garland! Thank you for linking to Tuesdays with a Twist! I hope you can join us again this week! -Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Thank you Marci!! Thanks for stopping by :)
I love your mittens – super cute!
Thank you :)
Okay, this is super adorable! Thanks so much for sharing with us at the #homematters linky party! We’re back on January 9 :) We’d love for you to join us then!
Thank you Kristen!!
These are beyond adorable! Thanks for sharing at Pin-Worthy Wednesday, pinned!
Thanks Roxanne! So glad you liked it!!
Thank you SO much for sharing this tutorial on Outside The Box link up party! We loved it A LOT so we wanted to feature you and this project this week! Can’t wait to see what you come up with in 2015!! Happy New Year! xoxo Brandy
Thanks Brandy!! Can’t wait to go see the feature!
This is so cute! I love that it is Christmas-ey but still neutral enough that you can leave it up all winter long. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Talented Tuesdays. I hope you had a Merry Christmas and we would love to have you join us again this week!
Absolutely! It’s a winter decoration :) So glad you like it!
I absolutely love this! I will be making one of these for my house. So cute! Thanks for sharing at On Display Thursday. Pinning!
Thanks for sharing Leia! Glad you like it :)