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    Homemade Christmas and Festive Decorations: 25 Home Craft Projects
    Homemade Christmas and Festive Decorations: 25 Home Craft Projects
    Homemade Christmas and Festive Decorations: 25 Home Craft Projects
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    Homemade Christmas and Festive Decorations: 25 Home Craft Projects

    By Ros Badger and Thompson

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    Add a touch of personality and creativity to your home with projects for Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine’s and birthdays.

    Complete with step-by-step instructions and beautiful photography, learn to make extra special festive decorations – such as a birthday pinata, knitted angels, fragrant rose petal stuffed hearts or an Easter tree. Shop-bought decorations just can’t compare!

    25 fun and simple projects to make, perfect for beginners.
    Complete with patterns, and knitting, sewing and craft basics.
    Includes a directory of suppliers and resources

    The content of this book is adapted from Homemade by Ros Badger and Elspeth Thompson, first published by Collins in 2009.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateOct 11, 2012
    ISBN9780007489565
    Homemade Christmas and Festive Decorations: 25 Home Craft Projects

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      Homemade Christmas and Festive Decorations - Ros Badger

      Dressing the Christmas tree

      Dressing the Christmas tree is a lovely ritual in which all the family can participate. Choose a time when you can work in an unhurried way – ideally towards the end of the afternoon or early evening so that the lights can be switched on with a degree of ceremony when it gets dark.

      The idea of the ‘styled’ tree, with all the objects newly bought to fit in with an agreed colour scheme, is anathema to the homemade approach. Instead, bring out vintage decorations that have become family heirlooms since your own childhood and beyond, plus newer ones made by hand, perhaps some of them by the children in your life. Homemade items bring an energy all of their own to the tree, adding to its significance as a family talisman, loaded with memories and associations, from year to year.

      Like the eggs on the Easter tree, your collection of homemade tree decorations will become a treasured possession that you can add to year by year. As well as making pieces, such as the embroidered felt shapes on the next page, we also buy a few new or second-hand items every so often – from vintage finds on eBay to those picked up on trips around the country or travels abroad.

      Less is most definitely less when it comes to tree decoration. In our book, you can’t have enough decorations and we load our trees with this eclectic mix of old and new until there is very little greenery showing in between.

      Felt decorations

      Bursting with cheerful colour and homespun charm, these felt decorations couldn’t be simpler, and they are a great way of involving children in pre-Christmas preparations.

      You will need

      Felt, which is generally much cheaper when sold by the metre than in smaller squares

      Ribbon (ideally recycled lengths from your stash of ribbons)

      Stewing threads in contrasting colours to felt

      sequins (optinal)

      To make a felt decoration

      • Using a paper pattern only where really necessary (there are templates for the decorations shown here), cut out the decorations, using two layers of felt for each one. For the heart, you could cut out some of the pieces of felt using pinking shears to add a pretty, zig-zag edging.

      • Sew the pieces together by stitching around the edge in tiny running stitches. Use a contrasting colour to add some basic but attractive decoration. Secure a loop of pretty ribbon at the top edge as you are sewing.

      Star, heart and stocking decorations

      • These three lovely decorations are shown. We used chain stitch to decorate the star, heart and stocking with words.

      • For the stocking, use the template. Start by attaching some white felt (the cuff) to each piece of red by working a row of chain stitch across the bottom edge of the white cuff. Then stitch the red pieces together by sewing around the outer edges in running stitch, but leave the top open. Attach the ribbon loop to the corner of the top back edge. Work a row of running stitches across the top of each side of the stocking to secure the white cuff. There should be plenty of space for a chocolate!

      Bauble decoration

      • Cut out two circles freehand or use the template. Join the circles by sewing around the outside with running stitch, leaving a space about 2cm (¾in) wide to add stuffing.

      • After stuffing with kapok (toy stuffing) or a clean pair of tights, continue sewing up the gap with running stitch, adding the ribbon loop for hanging.

      Holly decoration

      • Use the templates. Cut out two pieces of green felt using the leaf template, and sew veins onto them using small back stitches. Cut out two or three red berries using the berry template, and stitch to the top near the ribbon. Sew the leaves together, sewing in a loop at the top.

      Adding sequins

      • We sewed sequins to the bauble and Christmas tree. Using a continuous thread, and the sequins randomly all over the decoration. Or you could add the sequins before stitching the felt pieces together.

      Knitted angel

      Placing the angel at the top of the Christmas tree is traditionally the final task in the

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