I promise you, I am no seamstress. I seriously lack sewing skill . . . I mean, I try, and I can sew a straight line, usually, but basically, I am trying to say -- even if you suck at sewing, you too can make one of these easy pillow ornaments.
I saw these in Oct 2008 Crafts N Things magazine (Sherrie Siemans made them originally - page 111), and I adapted them to work with the stuff I wanted to use. I had these awesome Riley moose images from Hanna Stamps -- and I stamped them, but then found that even after heat setting, when I colored them with copics - they bled. (Clearly a sign that I need more black inks that won't bleed even on linen fabric). Anyway, I decided to stitch (embroider - or whatever it is actually called), the outside of the image, and THEN color it with copics, and this worked.
Would you believe I used my cuttlebug and nestabilities ovals to cut out my fabric in perfect ovals --yup, amazingly it did in fact work on fabric! Then I just zig zagged around the oval, stitched the edges, filled it up with fluff, and hand stitched it closed and then added the ribbon hanger and button. Cute and easy!!! I need to make some more of these to go on my tree with the new baby coming -- I am working on having less breakable ornaments and more baby friendly ornaments and this totally qualifies!I will see you back here soon for some more christmas crafting tomorrow! Hope you are enjoying some snow for me since I know big storm just dumped on a lot of the US, and being here in AZ, we just got rain. *missing snow*
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SWOON!!!!!!
Teri
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