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Making an Autumn Felt Wall or Door Hanging


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November 20, 2012

Finished wall hanging.This colorful felt acorn and oak leaf decoration makes a nice wall hanging or door decoration for the holidays.

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Supplies:

  • felt in various colors ($.30 per square)
  • embroidery floss in your choice of colore
  • needle
  • pins
  • scissors
  • beads and buttons
  • paper templates
  • tracing paper
  • scrap cardboard, such as old file folders, etc.
Acorn piece supplies.
 

Steps:

  1. Create your templates. I traced some applique patterns and hand drew others. I transferred the tracings onto manila file folder paper or scrap cardboard.
  2. Leaf and acorn templates.
     
  3. Select the color felt for the acorn cap and nut and trace around your template onto the felt.
  4. Autumn Felt Wall or Door Hanging
     
    Acorn cap template on felt square.
     
    Acorn template on dark brown felt square.
     
    Tracing acorn cap template onto felt.
     
    Tracing of acorn cap on felt square.
     
  5. Cut out felt pieces.
  6. Cutting out acorn cap.
     
    Acorn felt pieces prior to sewing together.
     
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  7. Place two nut pieces together and backstitch with embroidery floss to join.
  8. Sewing outline stitch on acorn.
     
  9. Fit cap pieces over nut section. It helps to pin the pieces in place to maintain alignment of the two parts, especially where the cap attaches to the bottom. Here you will again use floss to backstitch an outline around the cap and through the nut across the bottom. I also created a crosshatched pattern on the cap for added detail.
  10. Placing cap pieces on acorn.
     
    Attaching acorn cap.
     
  11. Next trace and cut out your leaf pattern pieces. Follow the same assembly steps as you did for the acorn. Pin and work an backstitch to outline the leaf shape. I then added veins, again using a backstitch.
  12. Tracing leaf template onto felt.
     
    Cutting out felt leaf.
     
    Cut leaves with scissors.
     
    Pinning leaf sections together before sewing.
     
    Stitching vein details on oak leaf.
     
    Finished leaf.
     
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  13. I added two smaller acorns to the final project at this point. You can see them near the bottom. Play with your leaves and acorns and finalize your arrangement.
  14. Creating pleasing arrangement of leaves and acorns.
     
  15. Once you are pleased with the final arrangement, you will need to attach the acorns and leaves to each other. I used colored beads and buttons and stitched through the pieces to create a somewhat asymmetrical hanging.
  16. Attaching leaf to large acorn with button.
     
    Attaching leaves to each other with buttons.
     
    Connection small acorns to bottom of wall hanging.
     
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