Topic
Felted ornaments, decorations and gifts for the festive season.
How to size, build and mount a felt tree topper: a two-layer or five-panel stuffed star, a felt angel on a cone, or a needle felted star, with the sleeve that fits over the top shoot and the stiffening that stops it drooping.
10 min read Intermediate
Felt snowflakes from a folded-paper template with six points, not eight: which felt holds open spokes, how to cut them cleanly, sizes and times, two-layer embroidered and beaded flakes, and spacing for a snowflake garland.
8 min read Beginner
Three ways to make a felt reindeer: a flat sewn ornament with stiff antlers and a Rudolph nose, a round reindeer face, and a needle felted standing reindeer on a wire frame. With a reindeer vs deer proportions table.
10 min read Intermediate
How to needle felt a polar bear that doesn't look like a white teddy: the long neck, low-set ears, Roman nose and missing shoulder hump, which white wool to use and how to keep it clean, wool weights for a 3 in ornament and a 5 in standing bear, and a flat felt ornament pattern.
10 min read Intermediate
A three-layer felt poinsettia pattern with bract sizes, a beaded center and a wire stem for picks and wreaths, plus a spiny holly leaf template, a holly garland layout and pale felt mistletoe with white berries.
8 min read Beginner
How to make a felt nativity three ways: a set of flat ornaments or a garland built from simple shapes, a felt board nativity that small children can arrange, and needle felted cone figures. With a full piece list and a stable backdrop.
9 min read Intermediate
How to make a dressed Christmas mouse ornament that hangs upright: a needle felted mouse with wire in its arms so it can hold a candy cane or a gift, a sewn version from sheet felt with every piece measured, plus ears, tails, tiny sweaters and scarves.
10 min read Intermediate
How to make felt letters: stuffed initial ornaments and flat letters for NOEL, JOY and name garlands. Letter sizes with felt and stuffing per letter, fonts that cut cleanly, the letters with awkward holes, freezer paper cutting, edge stitches, loops that hang straight, and garland spacing.
10 min read Beginner
Make a Christmas ornament that looks like your dog: trace a side-view photo into a felt pattern, show the ears, muzzle and tail of the breed, match the coat with layered felt patches, then add a ribbon collar, a name and the year. Plus a small needle felted version at ornament scale.
9 min read Beginner
A planner for felt Christmas decorations beyond the tree: wreaths, door hangers, garlands, stockings, tree skirts, advent calendars, napkin rings, place cards and gift tags, with time, skill and materials for each, and how to choose between sheet felt, needle felting and wet felting.
10 min read
Three ways to make a felt candy cane: a flat two-layer ornament with appliquéd stripes, a stuffed tube on a wire core with a wrapped stripe, and a twisted rope cane needle felted or wet felted from red and white wool. With sizes, stripe spacing and a hook that does not flop.
8 min read Beginner
How to make a felt advent calendar three ways: a 28 x 24 in wall hanging with 24 numbered pockets, a felt wall tree with a pocket strip of ornaments underneath, and 24 mini stockings on a string, with the sheet count worked out, three ways to make the numbers, and fillings that are not candy.
9 min read Intermediate
