DIY Decor: Ghost Tassel Garland

I love a festive garland! Especially when it features cute little ghosties like this one. I have made a fair few over the years, but I think this one might be my favorite! I actually had all of the supplies for this project on hand, but even if you needed to purchase anything, it would not cost you an arm and a leg. I love the simplicity of this project and the impact it makes hanging on my mantle. Read on to see how I made it below!

Supplies:

White yarn (Mine is originally from Michael’s)
Twine (Mine is Natural Jute Twine)
Black Felt
Hole punch or scissors
Hot glue gun & glue

Method:

The size of your ghosts will depend on what you use to wrap your yarn around. You can use your hand, but I wanted mine a bit bigger, so I cut a cardboard rectangle about 3 3/8″ wide to use. Wrap your yarn around the device you are using. I wrapped mine 30 times, but you could do more for a fluffier ghost.
Remove your wrapped yarn from the device, and take another piece of yarn and slip it through the loop you have created. Tie this in a knot at the top of your loop, but don’t trim the ends. This will become the part that ties around the twine to secure your ghost. Then take another piece of yarn and tie it around the loop about a 1/2″ to 1″ below the top of your loop. This creates the little ghostie “head”. You can trim these ends, but I just had them dangle as part of the bottom of the tassel.
Take a pair of scissors and cut the bottom of the loops so they are no longer loops. This creates the bottom of your tassel. You can trim any pieces that are too long, like the ends of the yarn you used to tie to make the head. Now you have a little white tassel!
Using a hole punch or scissors, cut out little eyes for your ghosts from the black felt.
Hot glue the eyes to your ghosts.
Measure your jute twine to the length you need. I created 7 ghost tassels because I know that works for my mantle, but you can create more or fewer. I like to make an odd number of ghosts because then I know I will have one in the very middle, which makes it easier to space the other ghosts.
Start in the very middle of your jute twine and tie your first ghost to the twine. For spacing for my garland, I did 6″ between each ghost. Yours may vary depending on the length of your jute and how many ghosties you made. Working out 6″ from each side of the middle ghostie, attach the next two ghosties. Repeat for the rest of your ghosties, measuring 6″ from the last one!