VIDEO: Felting for Christmas

Felting for the Christmas decoration

Try to decorate your Christmas table decorations with felt objects. You will quickly find that the color-coordinated felt sheets that you can find in almost every well-stocked craft store today Stars, Hearts, Christmas trees, bell motifs, etc. let magic.

1. Depending on the size of your Christmas table, cut out felt ribbons in red and green, which you cleverly attach in the middle of the table.
2. Your cut-out Christmas motifs, which could also be decorated with dried orange slices and nuts, go well with this. A cozy festive mood is guaranteed with the right lighting and this handicraft. So you will be won over by felting for Christmas!

Complete the doll's house for Christmas

For the shop or the doll's house can be felted especially from leftover felt food and baked goods that almost look like real. Regardless of whether you plan an afternoon of crafting with your children for felting for Christmas or as a Christmas surprise want to expand the doll's house, felt remnants are particularly suitable as Material.

1. For so-called felt cakes, any large round or rectangular pieces of felt are cut out and placed on top of each other. You can of course lay several different colored pieces of felt on top of each other so that contrasts arise.


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2. You can decorate the outer edges with a color-matched, stable thread (wool scraps and yarn).
3. The "biscuits" look particularly decorative if you decorate the tartlets with pearls.
4. A special tip: brown felt is ideal for the Christmas season, as it can be used to rework a wide variety of gingerbread shapes.

Animals felt at Christmas

If you want to make unbreakable nativity figures (animals etc.) for your nativity scene, then this material is suitable felt excellent too.

• Soap and water are not required for this, only for "wet felting", which is not to be described here. So first put Styrofoam ready as a base as well as various felting needles and the desired wool.
• Depending on the imagination and experience with the felting technique, small, lifelike animals such as birds, mice, dogs, sheep or cats can be shaped. You will find suggestions for this in various handicraft booklets, so that it is worth researching in good time.

Recommendations for felting animals

• To prevent the felting needle from bending, you should always hold your needle upright.
• Always turn the object towards the needle. Parts that should be symmetrical if possible (ears, wings or legs) always prepare in one step and divide the wool evenly and build up the body shapes in parallel.
• A tip: Do not build up your limbs too big at the beginning of the felting process, because you can always enlarge them by adding or Needling further pieces of wool possible. You can achieve the best result by puncturing the desired area several times.

I wish you good ideas and a lot of fun with the felting technique!