Felt Christmas Pudding

Oooh, what a lovely Christmas craft I have to show you.

I'm taking part today, at gorgeous Gwen's blog, in:

This year, I'm only posting easy but gorgeous crafts 

- no one wants a huge project looming over them a week before the big day.

Did I say a week?

{Or should that be 'Wha'? Eek?!!'}

This will take you maybe ten minutes

...and will make you feel so warm and fuzzy inside.

{A perfect break from sorting out those dang fairy lights.

Step away from the hammer....}

You'll be needing the following:

Felt: white, green and brown.

Three red buttons

Coordinating embroidery thread and needle

Glue

Stuffing

Draw a circle on the brown felt and cut out.

{I used a bowl as a template. 

The size of your circle will determine the size of your pud.}

Using the embroidery thread, tack around the outside of the circle, about 1/2" in from the edge. Leave two long threads at each end.

Add your stuffing to the centre of the brown felt circle. Pull on the threads to close the circle and form a fat pudding shape. When you're happy with the look, knot the threads together and snip short.

Cut out an icing shape using the white felt.

Sew three red buttons onto the centre in a triangle.

Sew two green-felt holly leaves using two strands of thread onto the 'icing'.

Sew on a large loop at the centre to form the hanger.

Glue the icing onto the pudding....

{If only the Christmas dnner was this easy...

'Simply take the ingedients out of the freezer and stick onto plates'}

And finally, and most importantly, take time to feel extremely proud of your quick and gorgeous felt Christmas pudding!

The other day on Facebook

{have you joined us there yet?}

we were talking about our top Christmas tips... and this is mine....

'Take time to enjoy your hard work.'

{Or not-so-hard in this case...}