How to make felt ginger bread men for your Christmas Tree

December 8, 2016December 8, 2016 by lizzymasonart

Felt gingerbread men for your traditional style Christmas tree.

Felt gingerbread men for your traditional style Christmas tree.

Felt gingerbread men for your traditional style Christmas tree.

Felt gingerbread men for your traditional style Christmas tree.

A dozen felt gingerbread men for your traditional style Christmas tree.

A dozen felt gingerbread men for your traditional style Christmas tree.

To make felt ginger bread men you will need…

Brown ginger coloured felt 1m roll width will make a dozen gingerbread men
White wave trim
Pins
Sewing needles for cotton and wool if you chose to sew together with wool
Brown wool if sewing together with wool
Sewing machine if you want to sew them together by machine.
Fabric scissors
Toy Stuffing
Red & white cotton
Red & white spotted ribbon 1.5m
Craft eyes & 5mm red buttons 3 x 12 gingerbread men = 36
Strong craft glue
Glue gun and sticks.
Print, download & cut out out of pattern at the bottom of this post

Pin temple onto felt as shown.

Cut out from main body of felt.

Cut around template.

Repeat this till you have 24 cut out to make a dozen.

Cut strips of wiggly white trim to about 3cm, enough to fit across feet and arms, overlapping and bale to be tack underneath.

Pull apart and fluff stuffing, you will not need much.

Pin tow sides together, and make sure stuffing i snot showing. Then tack ends of trim onto the back of each end on the back as shown.

Now you are ready to sew him together.

Use a sewing machine, I used white cotton.

Or use brown wool.

I made half with teh sewing machine and half with wool for variation.

Now sew your mouth on with white embroidery thread with back stitch.

On last back stitch I went out to the side seam as shown and over-sewed twice to fix.

Now for there bows cut 12 13cm peaces of ribbon and 5cm.

First sew the large pecae together as shown

First sew the large piece together as shown.

Then gather to gather as hown.

Then gather to gather as shown and oversew when done.

The get the small ribbon and sew on as show to back.

Wrap around and and sew together.

Then cut of end.

To revel bow for gingerbread men.

Make enough for all.

Glue bows on with glue gun

Glue buttons & eyes on with strong craft glue

A dozen felt gingerbread men for your traditional style Christmas tree.

Right click to save as, download and print….

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