Four festive characters
Decorate your home or Christmas tree with these fun festive characters.
These cute embroideries will also look great on stockings, tea towels, bags and much more – perfect for gifting. For inspiration, we’ve added all the characters to a tea towel. You can learn how to add fabric strips to tea towels by reading this blog article.
Embroidery data
Winter penguin
Size: 60.2 x 96.3mm
Stitches: 12 705
Colours: 11
Festive reindeer
Size: 72 x 96.4mm
Stitches: 12 992
Colours: 10
Santa
Size: 64.4 x 96.4mm
Stitches: 19 008
Colours: 12
Happy snowman
Size: 70.7 x 96.5mm
Stitches: 13 532
Colours: 10
Fabric suggested
These fun designs can be stitched onto any fabric, bar really light fabrics.
Stabiliser required
Use the right stabiliser for your project. If you need help knowing which stabiliser would be best for which fabric, read our helpful blog post.
General design note
The colour codes in our designs are an indication only – get wild and creative with whatever colour variations you fancy! For a pleasing effect, choose thread colours to match your fabric choices.
How to make the felt decorations
Materials needed
- Felt to embroider on
- Contrasting felt for backing
- Ribbon or cord
- Embroidery threads
- Appliqué paper
Equipment needed
- Embroidery machine
- ScanNCut or scissors
Step 1
Download all the embroidery files and stitch them out on stabilised felt.
Step 2
Once finished, iron appliqué paper to the back of the finished embroideries. Make sure to use a pressing cloth or sheet of baking paper when fusing the appliqué paper to the felt.
Step 3
Cutting out the shapes. There are two different ways to do this, we have included both below.
Option 1: cut out the embroidered shapes by hand. Then, place on the backing felt as a template, add 4mm all around and cut out.
Option 2: if you have a ScanNCut DX with a rotary blade, download the cutting files here.
Place your embroideries right side up on the cutting mat and make sure they are sticking well to the mat. Do a background scan, move the cutting shapes accordingly and cut. Then cut the background felt, using the larger cutting files.
Tip: when cutting on the ScanNCut, keep an eye on the cutting to make sure the embroidered pieces do not move. Reduce the cutting speed so you have more control.
Step 4
Now that you have your embroideries and backing felt cut out, remove the appliqué paper backing that was fused to the embroidered pieces.
Step 5
Sew the ends of the ribbon/cord together. Place in between the two layers of felt, insert 1.5cm of the cord/ribbon so it will be caught in the seam allowance and stay put. Lay the pieces of felt down with the embroidered part facing down. Add a pressing cloth and fuse the two parts together, making sure the ribbon/cord is caught inside.
Step 6
You can do a small reinforcement stitch at the top to make sure the cord or ribbon stays put.
And we are done! Hang these in your tree and admire 🙂
