Hi, card-making friends. I hope you had a great Christmas if you celebrate and are looking forward to the New Year. I sure am.  Okay, so before this year ends, I have a couple more projects to share with you: the Spellbinders Felt Acorns and Gingerbread. The last couple of weeks before Christmas got a little hectic, and I didn’t finish these on time, so here they are, LOL.

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The Felt Autumn Acorn House and the Gingerbread Boy and Girl die sets are both part of the Felt Stitch & Create Collection by Nichol Spohr over at Spellbinders.   The dies cut the new Spellbinders Wool Felt beautifully and they are super easy to stitch together.

Products Used:

• Felt Autumn Acorn House Die set
• Gingerbread Boy and Girl Die Set
• Merino Wool Felt Sheets – Neutrals, Holidays and Cool.
• DMC Thread
• Embroidery needles

Felt Acorns and Gingerbread – The Acorns

My time was really tight before the holidays so I decided to not make the house part of the acorns.  I used the top back die for all 4 pieces.  Just stitch the two panels around the edges, tuck the bottom one up inside the top and then stitch the scallops.  This makes great acorns, and would also make really pretty Christmas balls. (next Christmas perhaps, LOL).

Start by cutting the acorn pieces and then some quilt batting to fit inside each.

Next, stitch the outside edges in brown on all the pieces.

Then, tuck the bottom piece up inside the top scalloped piece and stitch the scallops.  This stitches right through the bottom pieces and holds them both together.

Adding the Leaves.

There are 3 different leaf dies in this die set, so cut them all the same, or change them up.

Next, they stitch up very quickly, I don’t put batting between them.  If you start at the top, go down to the bottom, then work your way back doing the arms as you climb, it works out very nicely.

Finally, I used glue to attach them, but you could also stitch them on if you like.

I’m looking forward to using these in my tiered trays this coming fall.

Felt Acorns and Gingerbread – The Gingerbread man

Start by die cutting all the pieces from the different colors of felt.  Then cut one body from quilt batting and trim off the stitching lines

Next, stitch the mouth and add the buttons before you stitch him together.

Then, stitch on the red part of the hat, and the white part as an overlay going through the head of the gingerbread man to secure the hat.

Finally, stitch the little tree together, again, no batting required, then glue on the white icing, the eyes and the cheeks.  You can also glue or stitch the Christmas tree on.

I did a couple of videos earlier on stitching with the felt dies:

Felt Stitch and Create Pumpkins here

The Felt Stitch and Create Reindeer here

And here is the entire New Felt Stitch and  Create Release:

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