Fun Patterns!

We got in a couple new patterns for you to try. Take a look below!

Day 23: Tree Toppers

Merry Christmas every one and welcome to the last day of our advent calendar! Today’s I’m going to showcase a bunch of Christmas Tree toppers for you to try for next year. There’s great variety of toppers out there, and I’m sure you can find one for everyone. Here’s my list:

Glittered Star Tree Topper From Martha Stewart’s website. She, of course, has a bunch of gorgeous ones to try. But for now, here’s a classic design if you don’t want to get too complicated. The rest of her tree toppers can be seen at this link.

Christmas Star with Lights Unfortunately there’s no pictures, but this seems like a fairly straightforward guide to make a basic star that lights up.

Christmas Angel Here’s a guide to a basic angel tree topper if you’re not a big fan of having a star at the top. There’s a couple other tree toppers below this one on the page if you feel like looking.

Fabric Pompom For something different, try making these fabric pompoms instead of a traditional star or angel.

Ribbon Tree Topper Another different one is to top off your tree with a big bow. Here’s one tutorial to try it out with.

That brings us to the end of 2010’s Advent Calendar. There was certainly many more projects out there and feel free to look more up yourself. I hope you all enjoyed the projects. If you have any feedback, or even some pictures of the ones your tried, I would love to hear from you. Just leave me a note in the comments.

Dec 17: Felt Christmas Wreath

Here’s a nice little felt wreath ornament for you to try. I love the way they packaged it. The link for instructions and patterns is here

Items Needed:
-A selection of felts in various colours.
-Thread
-Pattern from website
-Ribbon
-Rhinestones

Dec 16: Christmas Tree Skirt

9 Days til Christmas! Tree still naked? Here’s an easy DIY Christmas Tree Skirt for the bottom of your tree. I got this one from About.com, and it has fairly easy instructions to make it, including pictures. For the full instructions, the link is right here. Your list of materials is as follows:

Items Needed:
-4yds of fabric, preferably Holiday themed.
-Compass, circle or dinner plate.
-Lots of thread or bias tape
-Optional: Serger

P.S. Sorry about the picture, the site is missing a better shot of it. If someone makes it and gets a good shot, please let me know and I’ll feature it on here.

Dec 15: Gingerbread House

Good morning everyone! We’re on Day 15 of our Advent Calender, only ten days til Christmas! I’m certainly getting excited. For today we will be making a felt gingerbread house. Gingerbread houses are great… until it gets really stale. This is another one from the Craft Ideas website, they have a few cute ideas. The link to today’s project is here

Items Needed:
-Thick felt in medium brown and white for roof & house
-Stiff brown felt for door & windows.
-Thin felt for decorations & heart. Some pink and red for the heart, and whatever other colours you want.
-White and red embroidery floss
-Pattern from website.

Day 14: Christmas Stockings

As it’s getting closer to Christmas, today I’m spotlighting some nice simple stockings you can make. This website I got this from has a few different variations for you to try, take a look at all of them and choose which one suits you best. For instructions click here. The items needed depends on the version of the stocking you choose, so I’ll leva it up to you on what you use. Best of luck!

Dec 12: Santa Door Banner

Welcome to Day 12 of our Christmas advent calender! Featuring a decorative Santa banner! This jolly fellow will surely light up an area you put him. In order to make this you are going to need the Santa Under the Stars pattern.

Items Needed:

Fabric:
-3/4yd Green for Background and backing
-1/2yd Red for Santa’s Coat, hat, & binding
-11×12″ White 1 for Santa’s beard & brows
-6 x 11″ White 2 for Hat fur
-5 x 6″ Gold 1 for Stars
-4 x 6″ Pale Peach for face
-2 x 2″ Black for mouth
-2 x 2″ Pink for bottom lip
-2 x 2″ Gold 2 for coat button

Other:
-3/4yd Lite Steam-a-Seam 2: 18″ wide
-18 x 28″ Warm and Natural cotton Batting
-1/2 x 13″ Dowel for hanging
-Robison-Anton black rayon embroidery thread for satin stitching
-Quilting thread
-A non-permanent fabric marking pencil or marker in a lighter colour

Dec 11: Folded Fabric Ornament

Only 14 days to Christmas! Have you finished your shopping yet? I certainly have a few things to go, but I’m ready to take on the crowds. Today’s project is a fairly simple project with results that look a lot more complicated than it is. It’s another Christmas ornament that uses folded fabric to get a lovely effect.

Items Needed:
-Styrofoam ball
-Stick pins
–Various Colourful fabrics cut into strips
–Thick Ribbon
-A Ribbon to use for a loop or an ornament hook.

How to:
1. Pin on end of the fabric and start folding the fabric into triangles on the Styrofoam ball. Secure each point with more stick pins and along the base of the triangle. Continue until ball is covered.
2. Take the wide ribbon and circle the ball to hide edges and stick bins.
3.Attach ribbon loop or ornament on top and hang on tree.

Dec 10: Snowman Banner

Good Morning all! It snowed a fair bit here in Edmonton, and conveniently enough today we’re featuring a Snowman quilting project. It’s a lovely wall hanger to bring a little Winter Wonderland indoors without worrying about melting snow. You will need the Wintry Welcome pattern and the following fabrics.

Items Needed:
Fabric:
1 1/4yd Blue for Background, backing & hanging sleeve
1/3yd Red or whatever colour you want for hat band, dots, fringe and binding
18 x 22″ White for snowman and flakes
8 x 13″ for Scarf, in whatever colour you want.
5 x 11″ Black for hat, eyes & mouth
5 x 6 ” Green for mitten
2 x 9″ Orange for carrot nose
2 x 3″ Brown for arm

Other:
1 yd Steam-a-Seam
22 x 36″ Warm and Natural cotton batting
1 yd Ribbon or decorative cord for hanging
1/2 x 18″ Dowel for hanging
Robison- Anton black Rayon embroidery thread for satin stitching
Quilting thread
Non permanent fabric marking pencil or marker in a lighter color

Dec 7: Christmas Light Plushie

Today’s project is one I found on Craftbits.com for a Christmas Tree plushie. I chose this one because I thought it might be a good guide of instructions to make a festive cat toy. All you would have to do is replace some of the stuffing with catnip and skip the googly eyes. It’s a good way to distract your feline friend from opening everybody’s presents early.

Items Needed:
Coloured Felt & Silver or Tan
Thread
Polyester stuffing
Catnip
Scissors

For the instructions, see the original post here