Making Christmas Ornaments is one of the best ways you can decorate for the holidays. Create this Charming Heart Ornament adorned with a button and ribbon for a simple way to dress up your tree.
Materials:
- Small piece of quilters cotton (I used red, lime, and pink)
- Fusible webbing such as vliesofix
- One button (I used red, white, and lime)
- White felt (I used the polyester variety although they would be nicer made up in wool felt)
- 10 inch length of narrow white ribbon
- Fibrefill stuffing
Instructions:
- Trace your shape onto a piece of fusible webbing (I used hearts and stars) and iron it onto the reverse side of your cotton fabric.
- Cut out the shape, peel off the paper backing, and iron it onto a piece of felt that is at least 1 inch larger than the outside of the fabric shape. Cut another piece of felt that is the same size for the backing.
- Position the top layer of felt with the fabric shape, on top of the backing felt and pin together. Sew around the fabric shape using a machine buttonhole stitch or zigzag stitch, leaving a gap of approx 1 inch. You will be sewing through two layers of felt.
- Lightly stuff the shape through gap in between the two layers of felt.
- Stitch up the gap in the buttonhole stitching so the stuffing is secure.
- Cut out the shape, leaving approx 1/2 inch of felt around the fabric shape, using pinking shears.
- Overlap the ends of the ribbon as shown in the picture and secure to the top of the shape. Sew a button over the stitching to secure the ribbon.
- Hang the completed ornament on the tree; or attach to a Christmas present.
