Sew your way through the holiday season with these delightful free felt sewing projects for Christmas.
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One of the highlights of my childhood was the sewing projects that my mother would help me make at Christmas time. Mostly, I sewed ornaments for our tree. Now my children are continuing on this tradition. We started off sewing very simple ornaments. Now all four of my chidlren (aged 4, 7, 9, and 10 years old) are able to stitch around the edges, and their projects are more complex. I won’t be surprised if next year they pull some projects out of Craft A Day to make! In the meantime, I have a lovely collection of free sewing projects from blog friends for us to work through!
Materials for Sewing at Christmas
What You'll Find on This Page
All of these projects require only a few materials. Here are the basic materials that you need to make these projects. Any additional special materials are noted below the links.
- Felt. We used nice craft felt for this project. 100% wool felt would have been nicer, but this worked well enough.
- Fabric shears (these cut through felt like butter, unlike many household scissors).
- Needle and thread
- Clover Wonder clips. Wonder clips are an investment and you can get by without them, but we highly recommend them.
- Straight pins
- Stuffing
- Patterns – follow the links below to find each project.
Delightful Free Felt Sewing Projects for Christmas
Here are all of the projects that I have collected to make:
- Anna’s Christmas cat – she sewed this just last week.
- Additional materials:
- Ultra fine sharpie pen or embroidery floss for adding a face.
- Additional materials:
- Ornaments for Kids to Color and Sew – we made these back in 2011.
- Felt Reindeer Ornament from Red Ted Art
- Scandinavian Christmas Gnome from Make Film Play
- Additional materials for this project:
- A wooden bead for the nose
- Yarn for the beard
- A glue gun and hot glue
- Additional materials for this project:
- Felt Christmas Baubles from Oh Creative Day
- Additional materials:
- Mini Snowman Softie from Felt With Love Designs
- Additional materials:
- Christmas Tree Softie from Our Daily Craft
- Additional materials:
- Easy Snowman Softie from Sewing With Kids
- Additional materials:
- Hand-Sewn Gingerbread Man from To Be a Kid Again
- Cookie Cutter Gingerbread Softies from The Blue Barn
- Additional materials:
- How to Make a Robin Softie from Grace’s Favours
- Additional materials:
- Felt Reindeer from Swoodson Says
- Additional materials:
- Pengi: A Really Cool Penguin Softie Kids Can Make from Coloured Buttons
- Additional materials:
- Rice or poly pellets for weighting
- Additional materials:
- Happy Pear Felt Ornament from The Craft Train
- Additional materials:
- Christmas Candy Cone from Little Stitch Studio
- Additional materials:
- Transfer Ornaments from Nittens & Patches
- Additional materials:
- Transfer paper
- Printer
- Photos or clip art
- Iron
- Baker’s twine
- Glitter glue
- Additional materials:
Do you have a free Christmas sewing project that we should add to this list? Please let me know!
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MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
I LOVE handmade Christmas ornaments!
Your felt projects are amazing! I am ready for a book from you!
I am hoping to get one published in 2017. Probably self-published, but we’ll see…
What a great collection!
I’m thinking next year of putting together some sewing kits for Princess to sew some ornaments.
I should do that for my kids – great idea!
How fun! I love this felt snowman!