I love an easy felt craft. Felt, a little glue, and a some imagination is all you need! Last year I found a 1955 Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Ideas issue at an estate sale. It’s packed full of home decor ideas, recipes, and simple crafts. A Christmas tree door decoration caught my eye, and on Christmas Eve Eve, I decided to give this vintage felt Christmas tree craft a try.
Supplies for your Felt Christmas Tree Craft
Felt: For the body I used the teal felt that I had left over for my table runner project. For the ornaments, I used leftovers from a huge rainbow felt multipack (Affiliate link) that I purchased for that project as well.
Fringe: The rainbow pom pom fringe also came from Amazon (Affiliate Link)
Rick Rack: Easy to find at any craft store or purchase online.
Hot Glue! This is a no sew project. Because the pom poms have a little weight to them, I went with hot glue instead of fabric glue.
Scissors: You could also use pinking shears on the edge of the felt like the vintage design.
Ornament patterns: For the ornaments, I did a few Google image searches for vintage ornament coloring pages and resized them in Microsoft Word to fit my tree. I was also very inspired by Krys Melo’s tree skirt patterns. If you are not following her on Instagram @melodrama, you should be! Her candle templates were perfect for the look I was going for, and all I had to do was resize them a bit.
How To
- Create the overall shape of the tree. The original design is not completely symmetrical, so I didn’t stress over making the outline perfect and sketched out the basic triangle shape with the connected trunk. I made it wavy on the bottom edge. If you have newspaper or a big piece of paper, you could sketch it out there to make the pattern first, or just wing it and draw an outline directly on the felt.
2. Hot glue the pom pom fringe in rows to imitate garland.
3. Add ornaments. I wanted to give the felt ornaments a little pizzaz, so I glued rickrack on each one, and then placed them all out on the tree to find my favorite color combos before hot gluing each one in place.
4. Add a rick rack border with hot glue or fabric glue (I usually use Aleene’s) around the edges. (Affiliate Link)
You Can Do It!
This was an easy project that I completed in an evening while watching Christmas movies. Give this vintage felt Christmas tree craft a try and tell me what you think! You can tag my on Instagram at @untwistedvintage I would love to share what you create!
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