Advent Calendar Day 3

The pocket for Day 3 of my elder daughter's Advent Calendar featured a gingerbread couple so I took inspiration from the pocket decoration and made a pair of felt gingerbread people for her tree. These were made using the stitch around the pattern method - placing the template on the doubled over felt, stitching around the edges of the template using a sewing machine, removing the template, trimming to near the stitching then stuffing them and closing the stuffing hole. I used embroidery thread, ribbon and beads for their features.

Day 3 pocket

Felt gingerbread man and woman

closeup of the felt gingerbread man and woman

Despite having ginger/auburn hair, she isn't actually that fond of gingerbread, however she was delighted with this pair of gingerbread characters for her Christmas tree.

Advent Calendar Day 2

The pocket for Day 2 of my elder daughter's Advent Calendar contains some Christmas decorations from our family Christmas tree. These were made by her little sister when she was at primary school. We have kept a set of these felt decorations (she had made lots to sell for a charity, which she did very successfully at a church event but we still had some duplicates left over).

Day 2 pocket

Front of the felt star

Back of the felt star

Front of the felt snowman

Back of the felt snowman

Front of the felt heart (yes, it lost some stars over the years)

Back of the felt heart

Front of the felt Christmas tree

Back of the felt Christmas tree

Front of the felt angel

Back of the felt angel

When she opened the parcel, my elder daughter laughed to see the felt decorations she remembered from our tree and recalled that she had helped make some of them.