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Home / Holidays / Christmas Crafts / Button and Felt DIY Christmas Ornaments

Button and Felt DIY Christmas Ornaments

November 16, 2015

I couldn’t let Christmas go by without making some fun DIY Christmas ornaments.  So naturally I went overboard and made a bunch of different ornaments.  You’ll see the rest of those in the next few weeks, but let’s start with these.  They’re made of felt and cute little buttons, so they are my favorites of the bunch. Make sure you also look at all of my other homemade Christmas ornament tutorials and free felt Christmas ornament patterns!

Button and Felt DIY Christmas Ornaments

Supplies needed:

  • free DIY Christmas ornament patterns – Instructions to download are at the bottom of this post.
  • felt (type and colors listed on the pattern)
  • buttons
  • white paint (optional)
  • embroidery floss (white, brown, and black)
  • baker’s twine
  • small red rhinestone (optional for Rudolph)

You can use any kind of buttons.  I liked the more rustic look of these wooden buttons that Oriental Trading Company sent to me a while ago, so I used them.  There were a few heart ones in the package, and those worked perfectly for the deer head.  Looking at the preview on their website, I don’t see the exact heart buttons that I used, so I don’t know if they are included anymore.  They might be, but I don’t know for sure.  The larger circles are 1/2-inch in diameter and the smaller ones are 3/8-inch.  The hearts are 1/2-inch at their widest part and 1/2-inch tall.

wooden buttons

I used some white chalky finish paint to paint the snowman buttons white.  You could also just use some acrylic paint.  Dip your brush in a little water if you still want to see the wood grain on the buttons.

paint wooden buttons

Cut out the pattern pieces.  I find it helpful to cut small pieces with tape rather than pins.

cutting felt

Sew the background pieces on first, using a running stitch and two strands of embroidery floss. (Embroidery floss is made of 6 smaller strands, so you pull those apart to make it smaller.)

Button and Felt DIY Christmas Ornaments

Sew the buttons on and add the embroidery.  The hands are sewn with four strands of floss and the hat with two.  The snow is made using french knots and four strands of floss.  I love french knots!

Button and Felt DIY Christmas Ornaments

The snowman’s scarf is made from some red and white baker’s twine.  String it on a large embroidery needle and tie a knot in the end.  Bring it through from the back on the left of the snowman’s head.  Cross over to the other side of the snowman and push the needle through to the back.  Bring it up through the first spot again and tie the twine in a knot.  Cut off the excess, and he’s got a little scarf.

For the girl snowman (would that be a snow-woman?)  I separated the baker’s twine and used the red part.  Thread it through the embroidery needle and stitch it though next to her head like the photo below.

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Finish off the snow-woman by tying the twine into a little bow, and cut off the excess.  Isn’t she cute?

Button and Felt DIY Christmas Ornaments

Now take a piece of the twine (or some ribbon) and sew it in a loop on the second circle that you cut for the ornament.  I used a sewing machine to make sure it would be secure.

Button and Felt DIY Christmas Ornaments

Do a blanket stitch around the ornament (two strands of floss) to sew the two circles together, sandwiching the hanging loop in between the two felt circles.

Button and Felt DIY Christmas Ornaments

The reindeer on this ornament got a little rhinestone glued on to make him Rudolph.  That’s optional, but oh so cute!

Button and Felt DIY Christmas Ornaments

What do you think?  Do you love the little button snowmen as much as I do?  I’m so excited to show you the rest of the ornaments that I made for the tree this year.  Until then, go check out the 12 days of Handmade Christmas Ornaments series that I did a couple years ago.  Lots of good stuff there.

10 Christmas Ornament Tutorials from Cutesy Crafts

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  1. Solvejg says

    November 19, 2018 at 2:45 pm

    These are really cute!! What is the thickness of the felt used? I did check the pattern but it doesn’t say anything about thickness. Really want to make these πŸ™‚

    Reply
    • Jessica @ Cutesy Crafts says

      November 19, 2018 at 9:03 pm

      I’m not sure about thickness. I use National Nonwovens wool/rayon blends, but I don’t see thickness listed on their site. They are pretty standard felt thickness. I would definitely use wool or a wool blend.

      Reply
      • Solvejg says

        November 19, 2018 at 9:47 pm

        Thanks a lot! I couldn’t find any info on thickness either. Thought I might have missed something.

        Reply
        • Jessica @ Cutesy Crafts says

          November 19, 2018 at 9:52 pm

          Any felt that is about the thickness of normal, craft store sheets should work. Just don’t use the cheap-y acrylic felt. πŸ™‚

          Reply
  2. Kate says

    October 28, 2017 at 5:10 am

    These are adorable. Thank you.

    Reply
    • Jessica @ Cutesy Crafts says

      October 30, 2017 at 12:26 pm

      Thanks Kate!

      Reply
  3. sam says

    December 15, 2016 at 10:04 am

    These are precious. Thank you for sharing.

    Reply
  4. cpr says

    November 22, 2016 at 2:47 am

    Do you have the tutorial part for a blanket stitch? Thank you. These are cute.

    Reply
    • Jessica @ Cutesy Crafts says

      November 24, 2016 at 8:09 am

      I don’t, but there are some really good YouTube videos that you can search for.

      Reply
  5. Tammy says

    November 19, 2016 at 5:51 am

    Love your ideas! Always looking for things to share with kids to sew.

    Reply
    • Jessica @ Cutesy Crafts says

      November 20, 2016 at 8:26 pm

      Thanks, Tammy! So glad you like them! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  6. Meredith @ unOriginalMom says

    November 16, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    These are so creative and adorable! And oh my gosh, I love Rudolph. And I love the snowpeople-in-love. They’re both so cute!!

    Reply
    • Jessica @ Cutesy Crafts says

      November 16, 2015 at 10:23 pm

      Thank you! I had a lot of fun making them.

      Reply
      • dotti says

        December 29, 2015 at 4:12 am

        I make cards and I hope to incorporate your adorable ornaments in my carda

        Reply
  7. Rachel says

    November 16, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    Love, love, love them!!!

    Reply
    • Jessica @ Cutesy Crafts says

      November 16, 2015 at 10:23 pm

      Thanks Rachel! πŸ™‚

      Reply

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