Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Folded Fabric Christmas Ornaments



I am making these pretty folded fabric ornaments for family and a few very special quilty friends.

I saw these at a quilt show and bought one to figure out how to make them.

After making a few I did a search online and

I found a video tutorial for making these ornaments 



Here is a pictorial of how I made my ornament:


I cut two circles of contrasting fabrics.

I used a 7 and 1/2 inch dessert plate for a template.

My finished ornaments are about 3 and 1/2 inches square.



I made two ornaments with the same fabrics,
one with the dark print on the top 
and one with the white and gold metallic on the top.


Sandwich right sides or circles together.


With 1/4 inch foot, stitch around the edge leaving an opening to turn the fabrics right side out.


Turn and use a tool to smooth into a circle.


Press to make a crisp edge circle.


Topstitch 1/4 inch from edge.


Fold into quarters and sew two opposite centers together.


Fold one of the other sides and and stitch.


Fold last side in ad stitch.


Without cutting thread, hand press into a square.


Add a decorative button to the center
and then knot and cut thread.


Fold over corners and hand press flat.


Add a hanger to one corner using pearl cotton and tapestry needle.


Stitch up and down through fold in corner and knot thread.



Here is one of these ornaments on my Christmas Tree!



Linking up with



Ornament Exchange Linky Party @ Sew We Stitch

Lots of pretty ornaments in the links.

Enjoy! 

12 comments:

Jacqueline said...

Thanks, your fabric choices are pretty.

margaret said...

pretty decorations very much in the style of the one and only Jennie Rayment who is the best fiddler, twiddler etc there is http://www.jennierayment.com/

Lee said...

These are so pretty! thanks for the tutorial.

Dorian said...

Very nice ms Pat! Thanks for the tutorial.

Needled Mom said...

Those look wonderful. Thanks for the tutorial.

Sparky said...

really nice tut and the result is priceless

SuperMomNoCape said...

I've been seeing those around blogland and have been meaning to make some. Yours turned out really pretty!

ChitterChatterDesigns said...

These sure turned out cute. Great tutorial....seems easy enough, and I love poinsettias. You can never have enough of those at Christmas.

Mary said...

Thoses ornaments are darling. Great job. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.

allthingzsewn said...

Don't know how I, never mind. Yes I do know how I missed you, I have not been going to my blogger dashboard regularly, that's how. Anyway thanks for the tutorial for you pretty ornaments. I'm collecting ornament patterns. Thanks

allthingzsewn said...

Don't know how I, never mind. Yes I do know how I missed you, I have not been going to my blogger dashboard regularly, that's how. Anyway thanks for the tutorial for you pretty ornaments. I'm collecting ornament patterns. Thanks

Farm Quilter said...

Thank you for this fabulous tutorial and providing a link from your Cookie Hop!! Definitely making some of these...maybe even this year!!