Add a touch of handmade to your Christmas tree with one of these DIY Christmas ornament tutorials. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite felt, embroidery hoop, and fabric Christmas ornament patterns to share with you today.
Several years ago, a friend gave me a handmade gingerbread man Christmas ornament. Every year when I pull out my Christmas ornaments, I smile when I see that gingerbread man in my ornament box.
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How do you make Christmas tree ornaments out of fabric?
There are several different ways to create ornaments out of fabric. They include:
- Cutting out a shape from fabric and sewing it together.
- Using a small embroidery hoop as a frame and placing a piece of your favorite Chrismtas fabric inside.
- Create images and shapes from felt fabric instead of cotton fabrics.
- Instead of fabric, try creating DIY ornaments out of ribbon, paper, fancy trim, beads or glitter!
Do you put handmade ornaments on your Christmas tree?
I do! I love the eclectic look that handmade ornaments give to a Christmas tree. In addition to adding variety to a tree, it’s a great way to incorporate different colors and textures into your Christmas tree.
Since then, each year, I’ve tried to add one handmade ornament to my Christmas tree. I love Christmas crafts and look forward to making ornaments to give as gifts or decor.
I’m always inspired by my fellow bloggers’ and designers’ creations. There are so many talented Makers online.
Handmade Christmas Ornaments to Make Now
Here are some of my favorite Christmas ornament tutorials created by some of my favorite bloggers.
Handmade Christmas Ornament Tutorials
Looking for a unique, special ornament to add to your Christmas tree? Check out one of these creative and affordable handmade Christmas ornaments tutorials for ideas!
We've broken down the list for you into sections:
1. Felt Christmas Ornament Patterns
2. Embroidery Hoop Ornament Patterns
3. Crafty Ornaments including paper ornaments.
4. Fabric Christmas Ornament Patterns
Felt Christmas Ornament Tutorials
Felt is a fantastic material to use to create Christmas ornaments. It comes in many colors and does not need to be hemmed.
If you're looking to create ornaments that will look great for years we recommend using wool blend or bamboo felt.
Each of these ornaments has extra added details such as hand stitching with embroidery thread or small embellishments like buttons or bells.
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.
Embroidery Hoop Christmas Ornament Tutorials
There are so many things you can make with a simple embroidery hoop! Some of these ornaments are hand embroidered and others are sewn by machine.
If you want to dress up your ornament a bit more, glue pom poms to the outside of the hoop.
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.
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 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.
Crafty Christmas Ornament Tutorials
These handmade Christmas ornaments use simple, easy craft supplies and feature fun materials such as iron-on, leather, and paper.
These hearts were designed as a Valentine's day gift, but would also be great for ornaments on the tree.
Did you know you can add iron-on to leather? We walk you through the steps in this tutorial.
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.
Fabric Christmas Ornament Tutorials
Each of these ornaments can be made from leftover fabrics from other Christmas sewing projects, making them all great scrap-busting projects.
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.
rose says
happy holidays to you and thank you for sharing all kinds of things with us.
the world today is a dark place and you may not realise how much joy you bring through showing so many cheerful things to look at and maybe even try and make.