Christmas Craft Tutorial ~ Embroidered decorations

These cute little emroidered Christmas decorations are easy to create with basic sewing skills

 You will need

Wooden curtain rings with screw eye top

Aida Favric

Embroidery needle and threads

Bostik or other clear fabric to wood glue

Pencil

Scissors

Place ring onto Aida. Use a pencil to draw lightly around the inside of the ring

Remove the ring and lightly draw design into the circle.( you could do christmas tree, robin, candle etc)

 Sew the design

 Cut around the circle leaving a border around the edge of about 0.5cm

 Apply glue as shown by the yellow dots.  (Please note the glue used is clear and the yellow is purely for demonstration)

Hold the design and place into the ring.  make surre the design is vertical.

 Push the fabric into the ring from the back.  do this evenly so that the deisn stands slightly proud (see below)

 Allow the glue to dry and then add ribbon.

you can make these yourself or purchase  them from the Christmas store at Beads By Design