Dec 8 / Erin

12 Days of Christmas: Felt ornaments

There are only 17 more days until Christmas and I am going to fill 12 of them with some holiday cheer. Don’t ask me how I will come up with 12 separate Christmas posts…but I think I can manage somehow!

Up for today is my take on some felt ornaments. I posted some inspiration last week and then got busy this past weekend.

Here’s what I used to get started:

Two snowflake/star cookie cutters
Felted wool in white and gray
Embroidery floss in gold
A small amount of stuffing (that I stole from a living room pillow, no lie)
Scissors and a needle

First I traced my cookie cutters (two of the white snowflakes and one gray star for each ornament)

Then I cut them out. If I was really smart, I would have used a disappearing fabric marker to trace the shapes. I actually have one of those but it is lost somewhere. So the blue ink stayed. It’s festive, right?

Next I made a snowflake out of one of the white pieces on each ornament by folding a white piece in half, then half again (just like I did in third grade when I made paper snowflakes).

Focus on the felt and not my ginormous looking thumb. It must have been the angle. Now I’ll never be a hand model.

And why do I bring up third grade snowflake making? Because my sweet husband told me my ornaments looked like a third grader made them. Thankyouverymuch.

Anyway, the next step was to layer the pieces with the gray in between the two white pieces.

Then I added a small amount of stuffing behind the gray layer to add a little dimension (but you could also omit the stuffing if you don’t have living room pillows to steal from).

And then I stitched around to make a pretty design with the embroidery floss to keep all the stuffing in…

I actually made six different snowflakes, but this was the only picture that didn’t come out blurry (what makes Christmas tree photos so hard, anyway?).

And, can I just tell you how handy non-breakable ornaments are when you have mischievous little babies in your house like this one?