30 Homemade Christmas Ornament Patterns & Sewing Tutorials

Designed by Amy Chappell these cute ornaments look great stitched up in bright colors of felt.

This gingerbread house is one that you can use year after year, and no worries that your kids will try to eat the decorations!

These sweet ornaments designed by Sarah Ashford feature adorable embroidered faces. She adds a few additional embellishments as well.

Commemorate baby's first Christmas with one of these sweet ornaments that feature baby mice with felt Santa hats!

This tutorial is great because your Cricut does most of the work for you. The additional details on the gingerbread house are created from iron-on vinyl.

Have a very "meowy" Christmas with these festive Cat ornaments. They are constructed from simple felt cat head shapes and purchased Christmas embellishments.

This ornament features a bit of hand embroidery and is great for beginning stitchers.

These cute ornaments make great family keepsakes. If you don't want to wrap the embroidery hoop in fabric, you could also paint the hoop with acrylic paint.

My family is Scandinavian and I've always been inspired by their holiday style. These embroidery hoop ornaments are machine appliqued. Choose between a gnome ornament or a snowflake-inspired quilt block ornament.

Tip: use cookie cutters to create the shapes cut out of felt on the ornaments.

Name that movie! Aren't these cute? I look forward to the Holiday season each year so I have an excuse to watch Elf.

This ornament by Jessica would be cute at Christmas but could also be displayed during the year. Use a bit of baker's twine tied around the hoop hardware to hang your ornament.

I love the wire detail that Bev added to these simple snowman ornaments.

This well-written pattern includes a lot of variety of ornament styles and sayings.

Create a beautiful cross-stitched red & white Scandi style Christmas ornament with this free Scandinavian Star Cross Stitch Ornament Pattern.

Create these cute woodsy ornaments with a bit of help from your Cricut.

In case you didn't know, cross stitch is back! It's more popular than ever, and these ornaments are a great way to dip your feet back into stitching.

These beautiful red and black Poinsettia Christmas Ornaments are so much fun to make and simple too! All you need is a styrofoam ball, paint, pins & paper! No sewing or special skills are required.

These memory capsule Christmas ornaments are a beautiful way to remember a favorite place or to capture the memory of someone you love. Learn how to make them with our simple Christmas Ornament Tutorial.

This tutorial for a plastic canvas gift card holder can be adapted in many ways and is a great way to make giving a gift card a little more special this holiday season!

Display your favorite photo on your Christmas tree with this fun retro-inspired ornament. Learn how to create a photo Christmas ornament using our fun 70’s inspired fabric Christmas ornament tutorial.

Learn how to make these colorful and creative splatter paint ornaments with this handmade glass ornament tutorial by Julia Fraizer. It’s a part of our Monthly Handmade Ornament Series.

These Retro Diorama Ornaments are perfect for Christmas and many other holidays! In addition to the deer used for our ornaments, you could also use bunnies to make a beautiful Easter display! Learn how to make the ornaments with our free tutorial.

These hearts were designed as a Valentine's day gift, but would also be great for ornaments on the tree.

You probably already have most of the supplies you need to create these ornaments at home.

This is a great project to let the kids help! Just make sure that you use the hot glue gun instead of letting them use it.

This one is an "oldie" but a goodie. One of our very first ornament tutorials. Simple and sweet. Just print a photo out on photo paper and decoupage it to a chipboard coaster with a bit of modge podge.

Punch two holes in the top corners and tie a ribbon through them to create the ornament hanger.

Create a cute tree using fabric scraps. I love that it features pieced strips of fabric.

These stockings were designed to be used as an advent calendar. Why not hang the calendar on the tree?

These tiny stockings are just the right size to stuff with candy.

Amy walks you through the steps of creating Christmas ornaments using her very popular improv Christmas Tree block quilt pattern.

These ornaments stitch up quickly thanks to the method that Amy uses to create them.

Inspired by some of our favorite quilt blocks. These would be great to make with leftover fabric from a Christmas quilt project.

These beautiful ornaments feature hand embroidery and felt. Get the how-to over at nana & co.

Learn how to make a beautiful and unique Christmas ornament using vintage sheets. This DIY Folded Fabric Star Christmas ornament tutorial will walk you through all of the steps to make this creative ornament!

These ornaments are made by adhering fabric to a styrofoam ball. They are much simpler to make than they appear!

Don’t throw out the scraps from your favorite Christmas fabrics; turn them into Christmas ornaments instead! These scrappy improv Christmas Tree ornaments use cardstock as a base, so they don’t need to be quilted.