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100+ DIY Christmas Ornaments

100+ DIY Christmas Ornaments

100+ DIY Christmas Ornaments

100+ DIY Christmas Ornaments

100+ DIY Christmas Ornaments

So I made a video for you all on how I put my frazzled snowman together. I hope it helps. Please remember I am an amateur at this. | By Karla | Okay, everybody. You asked for a video on the frazzled snowman and I'm going to try to put something together really quick and easy. You can see here I have my pieces. I've got my body piece, my base for the bottom of em and this is for a cardboard insert I used just to give em a little stability. I've got my men drawn out over here on the fur and I have the pile going up on the fur. So, when they get cut out, I only snip with my scissors. When I cut, I am just you the tip of my scissors to snip the backing I do not want to cut through the fur because when this pulls away you can see it'll pull away and I haven't cut the pile of my fur alright so when we get you can see here I have my jingle bells for his body my eyes my scarves my carrot noses I made this is extra cardboard bases I use chipboard I get from Hobby Lobby or Michael's these are the bases the bases of the snowman cut out a polar fleece now on each of these bases make sure you fold it in half and you put a tick mark on each side to find the middle and you can see I have one here and here I've got extra snowman cut I have my branches now when you pin your snowman together what you're going to need first because the fur runs up you're going to take a brush and you're going to brush all the fur in a downward fashion like so okay and it's going to all come down until you have them all nice and smooth and I'm just going to try to show you this very quick. We don't want to make this a long video but I want to kind of give you an idea. So, when he's combed down and I have another one right here, we're going to take the two pieces and we stack em on top of one another and what I'm going to do is where that little neck goes in. That's the first place I'm going to put a pin and I use pins instead of clips and I'll show you why. Um I do not sew over my pins. I'm going to get this side of the neck and you can see most of the first stays in pretty good brush like that. As you pin long pile fur like this you need to take your finger and push it to the inside away from your seam line and you will pin him you'll pin your head all the way around you'll be tucking this in just like that and it all gets tucked inside and pinned nicely and then you'll have something that looks like this and this is the little guy pinned now we're going to take him to the sewing machine and when I pinned on this side, I am going to sew on the opposite side and the reason for that is because it keeps your seams flatter when you're pulling out your pins and stuff. So, come on with me over to the sewing machine. My cameraman is my husband. He's helping us out. So, let's hope we can get all of this done for you quickly. Alright. So, I'm going to sew with a quarter-inch seam allowance. When you're working with a heavier craft fur like this, make sure you engage your walking foot if you have one but start further up on it. Now, this is the side, we're going to sew on the opposite side. See, if I put it like this, you have bumpity bumpity bump. If I move it like this, it's going to lay nice and flat. So, I'm going to start further up on the fabric, put my foot down. I'm going to pull out that pin and the reason I start further up is because it's thick and you want your machines to register that thickness. So, I will take a couple stitches forward and then a couple back, alright? So, I'm going to sew at a quarter-inch seam allowance removing my pins as I go all the way around this little critter at the neck we're going to come to that little peak and we're going to pivot and then go around his head just like so Keep moving. Removing my pins. And almost around the other side of his head. You can see nothing sticking out of the fur. I'm going to stop. I'm going to pivot again at that neckline. I'm going to come down okay and I'm going to reverse over here I want to back tap those stitches cut my thread now when this piece gets pinned on because we have the two divot marks those pieces are going to go on where our seam is and I'm going to open up the seam and just stick that divot mark right there at that seam line alright so I can push that fur inside put a pin in I come over here to this side you can see I have another divot mark right there that's going to go on seam line. Going to put a pin in then I'm going to continue to pin this around on the bottom of the snowman like this doesn't take many pins for this just throw a few in bare with me throw a few in here and I want you to see how we we're going to again we're going to pin on the bottom of the snowman and we're going to sew from the other side the opposite side and I'll show you why I'm going to put this is where our side seams are I'm going to put one more pin just a a thumbprint away from that seam in the side because we want to leave an opening for turning and over here again about a thumb away from the side so we want about a I would say it's almost a two-inch opening here so when if I were going to try to sew this I'd have to squish it and get it all underneath there but doing this he stands right up for me and he's ready to stitch all the way around so I'm going to start at that pin put my foot down again quarter inch seam allowance and we're going to work slowly because you want to make sure you open up that seam as you're going over that edge and just keep letting him stand up and we're going to sew around this edge just like that all the way around it may not be perfect but you know what nobody's going to see this on the bottom of your snowman so it's going to be great trust me open that seam up again go over that seam and I'm coming just to that pin because I want my opening and I'm going to backtack I backtack at the start and we backtack it because we're going to turn it inside out now we're going to just take my scissors that are my clipping scissors and at the neckline I'm just going to make a couple clips because this bevels in or bends inward and it's narrow you want to give it just a couple clips to help it bridge and shape nicely when you pull em to the outside. So, I give em about three. Be careful not to clip your seam line. Then, you're just going to take em and you're going to turn this guy inside out and he goes pretty darn easily just like that. We birth him and we use a little push stick over here at my ironing board. My husband will come with me and we're just going to take the stick and we're going to push him out and get his head outside here. Sometimes you have grab em from the outside and just give em a little push. I usually stick the stick in if I can find the hole. Find the hole, Henry. Okay, so we just want to turn em inside out. And push em all out just like that and he comes out he looks pretty freaky because he's a frazzled snowman don't forget he's got long pile fur he's great so that's your snowman now this one is partially stuffed I've stuffed them up to about this point he's got about this much room I stuffed him up to about this point I use polyfill and then I take this little marbles that I get at the Dollar Store Dollar Tree or Dollar General whichever one you got around your area and I pour some of those in so times they don't pour so nicely the opening isn't that big but I'm going to put a fair amount I want to give him a little weight because you know we he's going to have little twig arms and stuff and we don't want him to fall over and break his arms so we want him to have a little weight in there and you can feel him when they're getting in there and you know you've gotta going to mount in the little guy. He's trying to spit him back out at me. Okay? So that and then what happens is I put put just a few more in there. Feels like he needs just a little bit more weight. You'll know you you there's really no rhyme or reason how many. It's just how you feel and it gives him that just that little bit of weight. Then after I put those in I push them down really good to the stuffing I had in there and I finish putting stuffing in because I don't want it bumpy on the bottom. So I put some more stuffing in this hole. And they always take more stuffing than you think they do. So, don't be afraid to push it in. There's nothing like a limp-stuffed item and that just drives me nuts. I always make sure to stuff, stuff, and stuff, okay? We're just going to pretend he's all stuffed up because I want to show you the next steps and we don't want this too long, okay? So, over here, we're going to stuff that in. Get his fur out. Gets his little fur stuffed up there. Okay. So, that would be my bottom. It's going to require a little more for me to make him happy to finish him but this is just to show you. So, then, I would use a needle and thread and do the ladder stitch and stitch his little opening. So, then, I decide on, we're going to go back over to the cutting table. My husband's going to follow with the camera. Come on, gals. So I have my hot glue gun going and what we do is decide which side is going to be front or bottom there's our little snow guy but what I do is I take one of these cardboard bases I make and I kind of put a fold in it just one little crease to get it in and I push that in just below the base fabric before he's sewn and what that does is help give him a nice smooth surface to sit on when he's standing so then I take his nose what I'm going to do is I would part his fur I give him a part all the way down and I glue on his nose with hot glue I have a hot glue gun heating you asked about the arms I'm not going to put this stuff on until I'm ready to do em I go and steal this off my tree outside and I take twig arms and I make em the size I want the twig arms go into the side of the snowman you find your side seam you're going to put all around the base of the twig and put that on there and then you are going to hold the fur right along in there and that arm will stay beautifully it supports it your jingle bells will be glued to the front of your snowman and your eyes will then be glued next to the nose and you will give him blush on his cheeks and then tie on his scarf which I just ripped off of primitive fabric and that's it so I hope you guys enjoy this quick video and it gives you a little explanation on how this guy goes together thank you Hi Get it.

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