8 Christmas Sewing Projects For A Crafty Holiday
Make your home décor and Christmas traditions even more special with these projects which are guaranteed to make the season more special and personal for your family and friends.
26/11/2018
If you’re all for arts and crafts and are looking for ways to channel your creativity this season you’ve come to the right place. Make your home décor and Christmas traditions even more special with these projects which are guaranteed to make the season more special and personal for your family and friends.
1. Christmas Stockings
Christmas stockings have been around for decades, they’re great for hanging over fireplaces or even on the Christmas tree. This Christmas, make your own stockings fashioned to you and your family’s tastes. All you’ll need is a sewing kit ad some fabric and felt. You can make woodland stockings with cute animal faces, festive ones featuring Santa or Rudolf or just simple ones with different fabrics and patterns and design them with embroidered snowflakes, candy canes or other festive symbols.
2. Felt Christmas Trees
Make felt Christmas trees as ornaments for your Christmas tree or stringed decorations for hanging around the house. Decorate them using beads and rhinestone and embroider some festive symbols unto them. You can also make stuffed felt trees to place in your kids’ rooms, the kitchen, den, or anywhere else you want.
If you have toddlers, one way to keep them busy and out of the way this season is to give them their own trees to decorate. Cut out a tree and paste it on a wall then make sticky ornaments out of felt that they can attach to the tree. You can design the tree with “Christmas lights” made out of knitted yarn or leave it plain (they’re toddlers, they don’t mind. All they want is something to do).
3. Snowman
One thing to add to your home this festive season is a fabric snowman. Upsides? He doesn’t melt! You’ll need fabric and some filling and of course scarves, a hat, and a pipe to complete the snowman look. You can hang them all around your house or add them to your kids’ doll collections to spread the Christmas cheer.
4. Christmas Sweaters
Wool sweaters are a Christmas staple. This Christmas make them even more special by making them yourself. Make them festive with bright colors and patterns and stitch in some reindeer for the fun of it. To make them more special, instead of a general color, make each one the favorite color of the recipient and embroider their favorite Christmas symbols and/or their names on the sweaters or make your own sweater ornaments. This is guaranteed to make your kids hate them a lot less.
5. Christmas Tree Applique
This Christmas, make your tree more personal by adding your own sewn Christmas tree appliques to attach to your tree or paste around the house, on the walls and furniture. Cut out different shapes that speak to you and your family, perhaps symbolizing the season or past events from the year. This will give a more personal feel to your tree.
6. Christmas Stars and Hearts
This is a delightful addition to your décor this Christmas. They can be used as ornaments for your tree or decorations for the rest of the house. Take them a step further by making ones big enough to be used as throw pillows to really add the festive look and feel to every inch of your house. Use bright colored plain or patterned fabric and finish by attaching or embroidering some festive symbols. You can also design with beads and rhinestone, try making a reindeer out of beads.
7. Hand Embroidered Napkins
Hand embroidered napkins are a cute addition to your home this Christmas season. The trick is to embroider images, names, patterns, festive symbols or anything that catches your fancy unto napkins. Take your embroidery up a notch by using colorful beads. You can make special napkins for each member of your family or each guest you’re expecting to make the season even more special for them. You can use store-bought napkins or make some yourself using fabric scraps.
8. Christmas Angel Dolls
This Christmas, take your Christmas angel off the tree and let it visit the rest of the house. Make some Christmas angel dolls you can hang around the house and outside. It’s just like making a ragdoll and you can make them in different festive colors and patterns. Put them on a string and you can drape them around your house like Christmas lights.
Conclusion
You can turn these projects into fun family activities for the festive season by including your kids in the craft process. Let them bring out their creative sides and design whatever project you decide on to fit their tastes. You can attach printed ribbon to the projects with names, symbols, or thoughtful messages that will make them more special for your kids, other family members and friends you gift them to.