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.
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.
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