Ugly Sweater Felt Christmas Ornaments – Hipster Week

29 Nov

Ugly Christmas Sweater Felt Ornament tutorial

Welcome back to Hipster Week – the week where we celebrate all things hipster.

Now that the Christmas sweater season is officially upon us why not relish the irony of loving something so charmingly unattractive.

Sweater Party

You will need:

3 Large sized Paper Clips

Template (at the end of this post)

8″ x 4″ white felt scrap

4″x 4″ – reddish color felt for dotted sweater Poppy

1″ x 2″ – green felt scrap Cilantro for tree

2″ x 2″ Darker green felt Fresh Cut Grass for holly leaves

Sequins in:

Classic Red

Gold Rush

Moss

Iced Berry Beads

8-10 very small jingle bells

Bend the paper clips into small hangers as shown and set aside.

Tiny Paper Clip Hangers Tutorial

Cut 4 sweater pieces from white felt and 2 from a pale red coral color like Poppy. Cut 1 tree from  light green like cilantro and 2 holly leaves from dark green felt like  Fresh Cut Grass

Ugly Sweater felt Ornaments

For jingley tree sweater attach bells with green thread place onto one of the white sweater pieces with a running stitch.

ugly sweater felt ornament  jingly tree

Place second white sweater pieces behind the first and overcast stitch around the outside, stop and slip the hanger inside before closing around the top.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Ornaments Hipster Christmas

It’s helpful to run  thread around the “hanger” to prevent any chance of it slipping down.

Holly Berry Sweater Ugly Sweater Felt Ornament Tutorial

For Christmas Corsage sweater stitch holly leaves onto one white felt sweater piece add iced berry beads in a cluster of three.

Stitch closed as above.

Christmas Confetti Ugly Sweater Party Felt Ornament Tutorial American Felt and Craft

For Christmas Confetti Sweater stitch Moss, Gold Rush and Classic Red sequins down with matching thread. You could also use Beacon felt glue for this.

Finish as you did the other two

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Join us tomorrow for more Hipster Happenings!

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~Andie

7 Responses to “Ugly Sweater Felt Christmas Ornaments – Hipster Week”

  1. everybodylovespretty November 29, 2013 at 2:44 pm #

    Such a good idea, thanks for the inspiration!

  2. Jenni P November 30, 2013 at 9:04 pm #

    Oh my gosh, I’m in LOVE!

  3. Suzannah (@AdvDressmaking) December 5, 2013 at 10:10 am #

    Hipster Week? Hilarious!! These ornaments are super super cute!!

  4. zCatLady December 14, 2017 at 6:22 am #

    This has been my favorite ornament I’ve made so far this year! So cute!

  5. Karen December 18, 2017 at 6:54 am #

    This is a fun craft. I made mine longer and put snaps inside to use as a money card. No wasted paper and ornament all in one!

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