Ornament Thursday!

Create quick and simple ornaments for all your friends using wool roving and a needle felting tool. These teeny Santa Suit ornaments would be cute on some stripey Baker's Twine draped on your tree. The simple tree-shaped ornaments shown below are so easy, just felt a tree-ish triangle of wool and add on some teeny wool 'ornaments' in festive colors. We did the Tree Ornament at Panopolie on Tuesday and we'll re-run it Friday morning at Breakfast and Beads.







You don't have to make trees, try hearts, gingerbread men, even dinosaurs!
If you want a bit of help in shaping your ornament try using a metal cookie cutter to hold the roving in place. Needle felt inside the cutter with a single needle to get the wool in shape and then remove the ornament to finish with a multi-needle tool.

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Warm, wonderful snowflakes...

We made these woolly snowflakes last year using felt balls and wire snowflake forms. Press the felt balls onto the spokes and when you are finished with each spoke just turn the wire end with a pair of chain nosed pliers. This is a good family craft, just about anyone can enjoy making a snowflake. We also string the felt balls on thread with a needle and make long garlands. My girls are all about process, so the same garland can get made and cut and made again in just a few days. We keep a big jar of felt balls on our mantle all winter long for crafts; snowflakes, making those garlands, sorting by size and color, even for using as pretend treats at dolly tea parties!


get those wire snowflakes here...I used the medium size but you could use any size...felty balls are here...

Get more great ornament ideas at Ornament Thursday! Sorry I was late this week, ladies!