The first piece I did was the tree because I thought it would be the easiest to do. I cut the green felt in half, sprayed the board lightly with adhesive and put Elmer’s glue all around the edges of the tree and laid the tree on the felt. After the felt was dry and I cut the excess off leaving about 1/4 inch around. I then took about 1/2 yard of beaded string and every so often I put a little glue with a toothpick to tack it down. I had some Christmas buttons I had picked up on clearance a couple of years back and I glued them to the top 6 “branches” of the tree.
First Ornament
The first ornament is a reindeer. I cut 2 oblong pieces out of the brown felt. On one of the pieces I used embroidery thread to make a nose. I made the antlers out of the pipe cleaner. I used one long piece and two smaller pieces. The 2 smaller pieces I just wrapped around each end of the longer piece making the antlers. I then slid the antlers in between the two pieces of felt. Then stuffed with a little poly-fill and stitched around using embroidery floss, sewing the antlers in place as I went around. I glued on two of the eyes above the nose. I put a piece of velcro on the back to stick it to the tree.
