You'll need:
: Scraps of red, white, blush and green felt
: A pair of 4.5mm safety eyes
: Embroidery thread
: Polyfil
: Seed beads
: Crewel embroidery thread or narrow ribbon for ornament loop
: Tiny pompom
: Pink pencil crayon
: Water soluble marker, craft glue
Lay pattern pieces onto felt and carefully cut out. I prefer to use a sharp pair of embroidery scissors to cut out the felt pieces as they provide a precise cut, especially around tight corners and pointy bits. :: Please click on the photos to enlarge them ::
Position the face behind the facial hair and pin in place.
View from the back.
Using small, neat stitches, applique opening of facial hair onto face.
Mark nose, mouth and eyes as shown with your water soluble pen.
Embroider nose onto face, and mouth onto beard.
Being very careful, make two tiny holes where you've marked the eyes using the tip of a very sharp pair of scissors. (Again, the embroidery scissors work best). Insert safety eyes and connectors at back.. Embroider tiny eyebrows above the eyes and add a hint of colour to his cheeks with your pink pencil crayon.
Position hat onto facial hair, slightly overlapping the bottom edge of the hat onto the top edge of the facial hair. Repeat with the back pieces, taking note that they need to be reversed in order for them to match up with the fronts when it's time to sew them together.
Applique bottom edge of hat onto facial hair.
Align bottom edge of hat cuff onto bottom edge of hat. Applique bottom edge as well as top edge of hat cuff onto hat. Repeat on the back piece.
Stitch base of holly leaves in place and sew on three seed beads.
Cut a 7.5 inch length of crewel embroidery thread or ribbon for your ornament loop. Fold in half and knot the end. Stitch knot into place on the INSIDE of the back of the hat as shown, keeping your stitches small and invisible as you don't want to see them from the right side of the felt.
Lay front onto back and pin. Starting at one side of the hat, and using red embroidery thread, blanket stitch all the way around to the other side of the hat. End off your thread.
Start blanket stitching at the hat cuff with your white thread, stopping about an inch before you reach the other side of the hat band. Stuff and blanket stitch opening closed.
Glue a little pompom onto the tip of his hat, and voila, you have a sweet little Santa ornament!
Have fun!
~Shelly xo
