My Felt Christmas Tree

My felt Christmas Tree came about because I saw Martina's one on a Pinterest board. She had made one for her daughter and had posted a photo of her daughter playing with it. So cute!!  I made my first tree using her pattern and it is the one above on the left. It has had many, many hours of play over the last 5 years and is still going strong.

Since that first tree I have made several more felt trees and have created a list of essential tips when making a felt Christmas tree, to help you make your own.

Below is my 1st Christmas tree in use

Her tree lies flat when not in use - making it so easy to store in a cupboard!

I emailed her for a copy of her pattern and she sent it through - including instructions!

Martina has very kindly given her permission for me to pass on her Christmas Tree pattern. Below are the downloads for her pattern.

Martina's Tree pattern

I came across these fantastic scissors for cutting felt as mine were no longer ideal. You can find my review on Amazon! I highly recommend them for cutting felt over and over again.

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While browsing Pinterest I had been collecting a range of fabulous felt images that I thought I might like to use when making the decorations for my tree. Most did not come with patterns. But this was not a bother most of the time. They are simple ornaments to make and I found it very easy to create my own patterns.

Following is a brief description of how I created my own pattern for my peacock, I hope it helps!

My Felt Christmas Tree Photos

Below are four photos of my felt Christmas tree showing a different side & ornaments in each photo.

Several of my ornaments have either a bell or cellophane in them. As well I have added about 3 bought ornaments that I found while shopping. I did this to add an additional textural experience for my granddaughter.

This tree lies flat for easy storage when not in use. I will be giving this to my daughter soon and will hopefully have found a cute Christmas container to store the ornaments in separately for her.

Below is a wee video clip I found that demonstrates the blanket stitch I used to make these felt ornaments.

I tried using predominantly wool felt when making my ornaments but occasionally I strayed from this as I also wanted felt that had spots, hearts, stars etc on it. As this is going to be used by my baby granddaughter this Christmas I omitted buttons, beads & sequins when decorating them.

Here are a couple of places that stock felt:

Very Berry Handmade has posted a range of great felt suppliers

Colonial Crafts for wool felt

I Love Felt88 for patterned felt

The website I purchased my thick felt from to make the green tree was gracefulhandscraft.com

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