Based on two ideas by:
- Lovely little handmades – Download the free pattern by Annie Oakleaves or buy the whole Christmas collection
- PlanetCoco embroidery mounted on canvas (mounting idea and using felt and embroidery together)
Materials
- Calico
- Fabric scraps in red and white for the bottom part of the piece
- Fabric scraps in green, red and cream to sew around the outer frame
- Stranded cotton in light and dark green, gold and red
- Felt in red and beige
- Beads in red and green
Place white and red fabric over calico fabric slightly overlapping and cut making waves using a rotary cutter. I followed Pink Chalk Studio’s tutorial on wavy seams.
Turn and iron making sure your surface is flat.
Draw the design on the calico side using a pencil.
Mount on an embroidery hoop and start doing the embroidery.
Stitches used
Backstitch
Stem stitch
Long and short stitches
Closeups
The felt is lightly glued to the fabric so it doesn’t move when working with it.
When finished, stretch on a canvas.
Sewn Up 
This is absolutely adorable and putting me in the Christmas spirit as well, thanks for the shout out! xo Kathy
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WOW!! I just did my first Christmas purchase for NEXT YEAR!! My girls will love these…
Thanks for the idea..
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i LOVE it!! thanks for the linkie love. 🙂 i may need to mount mine on canvas too now.
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love this idea!!!!! i blogged about your idea on my blog http://sweetasmel.blogspot.com
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Wow, this is lovely! What fab embroidery and such a cute picture!
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This is completely gorgeous! I’m so glad you liked the felt and mounting ideas from my Flickr tree picture – thanks so much for linking.
Off to investigate the rest of your blog…
x
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This is adorable!
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what a lovely canvas, i will be making this one for sure. I love the mix of embroidery and applique. thanks.
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