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Santa Napkin Holder Make a set of jolly Santa napkin holders for the holidays. You can customize each Santa face with a different expression and even add the names of family members by embroidering them on the hat band. They make great hostess gifts too!
Finished Measurements: Approximately 4” in length
Materials: For each napkin holder • White craft felt or a felted white sweater, about 4” x 8“ • Tan or peach felt (for face), 1” x 3“ • Small scraps of red and green felt • Embroidery floss or fine yarn in red, black, green • Red dinner napkin • Optional: small button, white pompom, jingle bell • Optional: white rickrack trim • Vanishing ink marker • Needle and thread • Straight pins • Craft glue • Scissors
Embroidery Stitches: Refer to Page 7 for diagrams and instructions for the embroidery stitches used in this project.
How to prepare craft felt Soak wool blend craft felt in very warm water for 20 min. to create a soft pebbled texture Colors may bleed, so soak colors separately. Squeeze out the water without wringing or twisting. Lay flat to dry or tumble in a dryer until slightly damp.
How to felt a sweater Use a sweater that is 100% wool or a combination of wool and other animal fibers. Wash on HOT cycle with detergent, dry in the dryer on low. Repeat to achieve desired felting.
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Santa Napkin Holder Steps 1. Prepare materials Using the template on page 6, cut the main Santa holder shape out of white felt .
2. Mark Santa’s face Next, cut the face portion out of the paper template. Use this to mark the face lines on the felt shape by tracing inside the template with a vanishing ink marker.
3. Prepare to applique face Pin a 1” x 3” rectangle of tan/peach felt on the back of the holder behind the face area. Pin a small scrap of red felt behind the mouth outlines.
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4. Embroider face With white embroidery floss, use a running stitch to embroider the outline of the face, mouth and moustache.
5. Cut away front of face area With small scissors, carefully cut away the white felt inside the stitch line of the face. Repeat for the mouth area to expose the red felt. Be sure to only cut through the top layer of white felt.
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6. Add eyes and nose Cut a tiny tan felt circle for the nose and a green felt holly leaf. Glue into place. Mark eyes and embroider with black floss using the back stitch and a french knot.
7. Add final details Make three red french knots for holly berries and three running stitches up the center of the holly leaf. Add an embroidered name to the hat band with backstitch, if desired.
8. Close the loop Close the loop of the holder by folding the band to the back and whipstitch the ends together with a 1/2” overlap.
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9. Trim Napkin If desired, trim a red dinner napkin by sewing white rickrack around the napkin hem. Stitch a white pompom (or button or jingle bell) to one corner of the napkin. With napkin folded in quarters and laid down like a diamond shape, fold the pompom corner up to the folded point of the napkin. Fold the side corners in towards the center. Flip napkin over and slide the holder over the point. Variations: Try making the holder out of a white felted sweater, embroider the mouth, add a button nose, blanket stitch the outer edges.
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Backstitch:
To sew a backstitch by hand, work the stitch from right to left (or from left to right if you’re left-handed). Bring the needle up from the wrong side of the fabric on the stitching line at A (see the drawing at LEFT), insert it a short distance behind A at B, bring the needle back up in front of A at C, and pull the thread through. Insert the needle again behind the stitch you just completed, and come out a stitch length ahead of it. Continue stitching in this fashion for as long as needed.
Blanket Stitch A B Lazy Daisy Stitch A B C C A CBlanket Stitch B A Knot French
French knot:
This decorative stitch is easy to make. Bring the threaded needle up from the fabric’s wrong side at A (see the drawing at LEFT). Working close to the fabric, wrap the thread around the needle three times. Holding the thread wraps in place near the needle’s point, insert the needle back into the fabric close to, but not in, A (if you stitch back into A, you’ll lose the knot and have to begin again). Then pull the needle and thread out on the fabric’s wrong side. Secure the thread on the back of the fabric if you’re making just one French knot, or bring the needle back up to the front of the fabric at the position of the next knot. If you want to make a larger French knot, make more thread wraps around the needle.
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Running stitch:
This basic stitch is made by sewing from right to left (or from left to right if you’re lefthanded). To sew a running stitch, bring a threaded needle up from the wrong side of the fabric at A (see the drawing at LEFT), stitch back down at B, and then come up again at C. Take stitches that are consistently about 1/8” long, and make the space between the stitches the same length as the stitches themselves.
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Whipstitch:
A whipstitch is an overhand stitch generally used to join two edges side by side. To whipstitch, bring the needle up from the wrong side of the fabric through one of the edges being joined (see the drawing at LEFT). Insert the needle down in the second edge, and bring it up again from the wrong side in the first edge. Continue inserting the needle from the fabric’s back to front, taking small stitches and moving from right to left (or from left to right if you’re left-handed) to join the two edges.
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