Felt Christmas Tree Decorations

I still have so many decorations to share with you! Because of that, today I'm going to share these instead of a Younger Years post :)

I was inspired to make these felt Christmas trees from posts on both Julia Crossland and The Magic Onions.

I loved working with rainbow colours, as we all know I love rainbow!

But some blues and purples offset the amount of red our Christmas tree has amassed!

The green starry felt Christmas tree is my favourite, though. Different sized star shapes cut from different shades of green felt, and I added glitter to the edges of some of the layers too, for extra sparkle!

If it helps anyone, I used a thin felt, and used between 18 and 24 layers for each tree :)

Why not have a look at the other crafts in my Christmas category...

Sam and Millie Sketch

I haven't been well enough to commit to a full drawing or painting recently. However, I am determined to try and make a painting happen in the next few months! In an attempt to warm my hands up again, I did this sketch of Sam and Millie the other night.

 

Sadly, Sam has passed away since I last showed any artwork/photography of them on here, and whilst this drawing may not be my finest work, I know it captures both his and Millie's personalities!

You may remember in these sketches of my pet rabbits, Toffee and Flopsy, I added a tiny amount of pencil colour at the end? Well in these sketches I experimented by adding some colour before I built up the sketch, and just intensified it near the end. I think I prefer adding it after, but I do like the subtle notes of this - especially in the nose!

Lights of the Fairies

Crochet Owl Decorations

I love these little owls!

I found the pattern over at Hopscotch Lane. It's a lovely little pattern :)

As always for me, I made a few changes ;)

As with the Crochet Granny Stars, I used a 2.5mm hook and very fine wool.

As with the pattern, I cheated and glued the eyes on (the glue gun has become a regular sofa friend of mine this month!) I couldn't find any appropriate sized buttons or sequins for the middle of the eyes, so hole punched black card sufficed! I think they look cute :) I stuck the card on with PVA. And the beaks are just three stitches of yellow wool, as it was less fiddly on such a small scale!

I think these are some of my favourite additions to our tree this year, and I can see them making great gifts, too. I might try a larger size at some point, maybe with wings...?!

Why not have a look at the other crafts in my Christmas category...