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Uncategorized · December 13, 2013

Classic Felt Ornament – Ornament Swap with Make It Handmade

The always lovely Palak from Make It Handmade and I, are doing a little holiday blog swap/ornament swap today! If you haven’t already, you simply must go check out Palak’s  beautiful photography and great sewing tutorials. This mini crinkle quilt  and this remote control pillow are two of my favorites. 

Let’s get to the ornament swap shall we? Here’s Palak!

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Hello Delia Creates readers! I’m Palak from Make It Handmade and Sewistry. I’m so excited to be here sharing a tutorial with you all today!

This holiday season I’ve been on a mission to create handmade, unbreakable ornaments for our tree. We don’t have many ornaments for last year, so it’s been a fun challenge to replace some of our paper pom ornaments with some nicer ones.  These little ornaments are adorable, unbreakable, and stuffed to give them some dimension. And they are a great way to use some scraps of vintage trim and ribbon.

Let’s get started on our ornaments.  You need ribbon and a few scraps of felt. Also, go ahead and download the Classic Felt Ornament Template here. Then, grab your box of oddball trim and ric-rack. This is a bunch of vintage trim I picked up at the thrift store.

How adorable is it that Wrights used to send scraps to young sewists for doll clothes!?!

Cut your felt circles and squares according to the template. You will need two for each ornament.

Pin your trim and rectangle to your ornament, and sew down. I curved my rickrack slightly to be more fancy.

Sew the rectangle to the back piece of the ornament.

And place them wrong sides together making sure to sandwich the ribbon between the two sides of the ornament.

Sew around your ornament.

I like to stuff mine to give it a bit of shape. I just leave the needle down, and stuff it a bit right there at the machine. Then continue sewing around the edge, remembering to slip the ribbon between the two gray pieces of felt.

Hang your sweet little ornament on the tree– and rest easy knowing that it will be safe even if your kids get to it.

I had so much fun making these that I did a kid friendly version with my two preschoolers! You can see how I modified the project for them in my Kid’s Ornament Craft post earlier this week. I hope you all have fun creating little ornaments for your tree this weekend!

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Thanks Palak! These are so fun, and we are all about non-breakable ornaments around here. 🙂

Remember, Palak and I are blog swapping today. So, check out what I’m crafting up over at Make It Handmade!

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  1. Helen says

    December 13, 2013 at 6:55 AM

    These are such sweet decorations with so many possibilities for variations, lovely!
    http://ahandfulofhope.blogspot.co.uk/

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    • palak says

      December 13, 2013 at 9:43 PM

      Thank you Helen! I can’t wait to try them in some less traditional colors. (but we are loving the red white and green this year).

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  2. palak says

    December 13, 2013 at 10:06 AM

    Thanks for having me over Delia!!!

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    • Delia says

      December 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM

      My pleasure! Thanks Palak!

      Reply

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