In recent years, many of us prefer home-made Christmas decorations. This is especially true in families where there are small children who can accidentally get hurt by glass balls. Therefore, young parents, and just creative people, prefer to make New Year's toys from fabrics with their own hands, patterns for which can be cut from felt, felt or any other suitable material.
Varieties of home-made Christmas decorations
All existing fabric Christmas toys can be divided into three types:
To sew flat Christmas tree toys with your own hands, it will take quite a bit of time and, of course, patience. First of all, you should draw a sketch of the future decoration. Its size should correspond to the size of the original. After that, the outlines of each part are transferred to felt or any other dense material. If you use thick, soft fabric such as fleece or velveteen, it is recommended that you insert a cardboard blank. This will give the toy the necessary rigidity. The cut out fabric details are neatly sewn together - and the decoration is ready.
If instead of cardboard you put cotton wool, synthetic winterizer or other soft filler between the parts, you will get a more voluminous and rounded product. To make Christmas toys made of cloth, made with their own hands, acquired a finished and aesthetic appearance, they can be decorated with buttons or curly braid. Christmas tree decorations sewn from felt can be decorated with sequins, embroidery or beads.
What materials can be used to make Christmas tree decorations?
Many European needlewomen make New Year's toys from fabrics with their own hands. To do this, they most often use fleece. A good alternative to this material can be dense coat or felt fabrics. You can even use linen to create original Christmas tree decorations. But in this case, you will have to spend a little more time and effort. Fleece toys are usually decorated with all kinds of beads, original buttons and appliqués.
How to make a decorative Christmas tree?
These Christmas toys made of cloth with your own hands (the photo can be seen above) are in no way inferior to store counterparts. To make a decorative fabric Christmas tree yourself, you need to stock up in advance with small red beads, paper, glue, a pen, a round plate, cardboard, a needle and threads. In addition, we need lace and cotton fabric in white and green.
First of all, it is necessary to make a cone, which will determine the shape of the future toy. For this we need a regular round plate. Putting it on cardboard, you need to draw a outline. The resulting circle should be carefully cut with scissors and divided into four parts. Then a cone is twisted from this blank, for the fastening of which you can use glue or a stapler. Exactly the same workpiece is made from green cotton. Stitch it directly on a cardboard cone. To decorate the Christmas tree, we need a white lace fabric. It is glued in the form of a not too dense spiral so that a green base is visible from under it. In the resulting spaces, you can stick red beads.
How to make a Christmas toy "Pear" on your own?
In order to sew such a Christmas decoration, it is advisable to stock up in advance with gold braid, as well as a fabric of green, red and yellow. At the initial stage, a do-it-yourself pattern is made from yellow material. It must be cut in duplicate. Then a small piece of red material should be sewn onto the front side. After that, you need to carefully sew both patterns together. At the top of the future pear, you need to sew in a green bookmark that simulates a leaflet. The edging can be decorated with gold braid.
Christmas decorations in one color scheme
In recent years, it has become fashionable to hang New Year's toys made of fabric, made and made in one color with their own hands. So, you can often see a forest beauty, decorated with red beads and balls, silver stars or golden toys. In order to make many monochrome ornaments, it is necessary to purchase a large amount of suitable material.