Better Homes & Gardens – Holiday Crafts 2019

Instructions

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Mini Felt Stocking

shown right and opposite

MATERIALS

Stocking-shape cookie cutter
Felt: red or green
Felting foam block and
felting needles
Wool roving: red, green, white
Felting finger guards
Embroidery needle
Embroidery floss

Yarn-Trimmed

Cone Trees

shown right and opposite

MATERIALS

Papier-mâché cones:
133 ∕ 4 , 10^1 ∕ 2 , 7 inches tall
Yarn: green and white
Hot-glue gun and glue sticks

Yarn-Wrapped

Ornament

shown left and opposite

MATERIALS

 Yarn: green or white

 Hot-glue gun and glue sticks

 2-inch foam ball

Using a cookie cutter, trace stocking shape

onto red or green felt; cut out.

Set felt stocking on foam block, then

top with cookie cutter. Pull off a loose

section of a matching color wool roving.

Set it inside cookie cutter. Using a felting

needle, punch roving through the felt until

stocking body is covered.

Repeat using white roving to cover the

top third for cuff. Remove cookie cutter.

Wearing fi nger guards, use felting needle to

tidy up any loose roving.

Using embroidery needle and fl oss,

create a hanging loop.

For each tree, dab a bead of glue along

bottom edge of a cone. Secure end of yarn

in the glue and wrap around cone. Continue

wrapping, keeping yarn wraps close

together and securing with glue as needed.

Cover the cone with yarn. Trim yarn at top,

tuck in end, and secure with a dab of glue.

Leaving yarn in its skein, pull out one end

and make a loop to hang the ornament on

the tree. Secure with a knot. Hot-glue knot

to a foam ball.

Wrap yarn around ball in random

directions until ball is covered. Cut yarn

from skein. Tuck cut end under wrapped

yarn and secure with hot glue.

CHOOSE A

nubby yarn

FOR EXTRA TEXTURE.