I am finally in the home stretch with my ornaments. I don't think I will ever do 7 of the same thing again. I really had to push myself to get these done. About #4 I was through with the whole thing, but somehow I think I will actually have all these done in time. I will show you how I finished them into Christmas tree ornaments.
This is the finished cross stitch and a piece of black felt that I used for the back.
I folded all the edges to the back.
This picture shows the front with the side tucked in behind.
Next I cut out the corners. I just used the lines that were made when I folded the excess material. I stayed close to the fold lines but not right on them.
Then I folded down the corners and then folded them into a point. The next 2 pictures will do a better job of explaining that then I did.
I then used stick pins to hold it all in place and repeated with the other corners. Some of my corners ended up not very close to the green line of stitching after folding, so I had to make another cut closer to the green stitches right in the corner to get a better fold.
I lined up the black felt on the back and then stick pinned it in place.
I used a piece of ribbon to make the holder and sewed it in-between the two layers.
I then just stitched the whole way around.
And here is the final product on my tree.
Next year I will not be doing all the same ornament or I will be starting in January and spreading them our over the whole year. Happy Holiday every one!
