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Simple Yarn and Felt Window Hanging for Spring

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Dress up a window with this simple yarn and felt window hanging. It uses bright and colorful materials from your craft stash and hangs from a tension rod, so it’s easy to set up and then take back down as your mood changes.

bay window with colorful potted succulents on the sill and colorful ribbon, yarn, and pompom ball garland

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I love spring decor. It’s my excuse to fill the house with bright and cheerful rainbow colors.

We have a large bay window with a window seat in the living room. It’s kind of awkwardly placed, so no matter how I arrange the furniture, part of it has to be blocked.

My oldest loves sitting in the window, though. She claimed it as “her” spot when we bought the house almost three years ago.

You can curl up in the window seat with pillows and blankets to watch the birds or read a good book. Close the curtains for some serious alone time.

I wanted to make some kind of artsy thing to hang in the window. I love the idea of a curtain of glass beads, but that would get heavy – and expensive to DIY.

Instead, I decided to use up some of my craft stash and broke out the yarn and ribbon, plus some felt balls. (Or try this valentine’s heart garland version with felt stickers!)

This is definitely a make-it-up-as-you-go type of project, but I’ll share a bit of how I put it all together to help you get inspired to DIY your own window hanging.

How I made a yarn and felt window hanging

Supplies:

  • yarn – I used 100% cotton Bernat Handicrafter yarn in navy, yellow and white to match my living room. Bernat macrame yarn and Bernat softee cotton are great choices.
  • 1/8-inch satin ribbon
  • felted wool balls
  • jewelry thread or fishing wire
  • a sewing needle
  • a tension rod that fits your window
yellow, blue, and white yarn skeins, a bag of felt balls, a pair of scissors, and a tension rod sitting on a gray upholstered ottoman

Instructions:

Start by deciding how many strands of balls you want to make. Measure your window and cut enough of the jewelry thread to length.

Tie a knot or two in one end of the string and thread the other with the needle. Thread the felt balls onto the string.

I put a dozen on each, but it will depend a lot on the size of your window. My window is about 4-feet square.

strand of colorful felt balls on clear thread

Make a loop on the other end of the thread and slide the tension rod through it. Repeat until all the strands of balls are on.

white tension rod with clear thread tied in a loop

Adjust the tension rod and fit it into the window. Spread the felt ball across the width of the window. Then slide the balls down the tread to the desired placement.

five strands of felt balls hanging in a window
felt balls spread along the length of thread hanging in a window

For the yarn section, I cut pieces of yarn twice the length of my window. I folded them in half and looped them over the tension rod. Then I braided each bundle and tied a simple knot at the end. I alternated the yarn braids between each of the felt ball chains.

yarn tied over a tension rod
braided yarn and felt ball garland

For a final touch, I chose some random ribbon scraps and looped them onto the tension rod.

ribbons, braided yarn, and felt ball garland

Easy succulent rainbow pots

While I was really happy with how the window hanging turned out, I felt like it needed something more.

There were still unfinished pots left from my Valentine’s Day painted pot project, so I just painted them in coordinating colors. I ended up with two of each: red, blue, yellow, and chalkboard.

Read the full plant pot painting tutorial.

Then I found a mix of succulents and mini cactus to plant in them.

The whole thing turned out really cute and colorful!

bright, white window seat with a decorated bay window
half a dozen succulents in colorful ceramic pots sitting on a window sill
aerial view of succulent plants on a window

Check out some other fun and creative ideas on One Mama’s Daily Drama:

  • DIY Spring Letterboard Accessories
  • Printable Spring Wall Art Quotes
  • Rainbow Wall Hanging DIY Tutorial
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  1. sonali dash says

    26 May, 2020 at 3:46 am

    Osm👌

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    • Keri says

      27 May, 2020 at 8:15 am

      Thanks!

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