Dixie DIY Christmas: Embroidered Ornament

Supplies: very small embroidery hoop, fabric, ribbon, needle, scissors, glue, embroidery thread, buttons or beads or other embellishments for your tree.

Cost: $0.50 for hoop, $1.29 for beads and I already had everything else

Time: about 45 min depending on how fast you stitch

Difficulty: Easy

Casualties: None!

I glued my fabric to the inner part of the big hoop ring since I’m going to trim off the extra fabric anyway. If the fabric were to ever fall out post-trim it would be a pain to get it back on the hoop just right. This way I know it isn’t going anywhere!

You could embroider whatever you want on your ornament but I went with a tree.

I drew a little sketch on the back of my fabric with tailor’s chalk. I used unbleached muslin for a more country antique feel.

Then I simply stitched my tree.

I found a star button at the bottom of a box (way to use up old supplies, yay!) and glued it to the top of the tree. Then I glued small gold beads to the tree branches as tiny ornaments. You could stitch these on, too, but I’m a lazy crafter so I just glued them instead. Ha!

Finally trim off the excess fabric and tie a ribbon so you can hang it from your tree!