I love to add a couple of handmade decorations each year. This year I stitched some felt initial hoops for our family stockings, and thought I would add some cross stitched Christmas trees too. I used a simple template I designed and 3D printed. I’ll share the file in case you want to print and make one too.

Supplies:
Wooden embroidery hoop
Heat erasable pen
Felt
Wool
Needle
Scissors
3D printed cross stitch template

How to make a felt cross stitched Christmas tree

I designed the plastic template in Autodesk Fusion 360  and 3D printed the cross stitch template on our 3D printer (a Prusa Mark 3). I placed the felt in the embroidery hoop and placed the plastic template where I wanted my tree to be using a heat erasable pen to make small marks where I wanted to make a stitch.

When I had made enough marks to stitch a cross stitch Christmas tree I removed the plastic template.

I used the pen marks to guide my cross stitches. I threaded my needle with the fool and started from the bottom of the tree. I made sure my stitches all went in the same direction from bottom left to top right, before going back from bottom right to top left to complete each cross.

The cross stitch Christmas tree was a really simple design and only needed 14 stitches to complete.

You could see the pen marks but these faded in a few hours. It was fun to stitch with big stitches and so quick that I made two hoops! I hung them on the tree as I love to fill my tree with handmade decorations. I can’t wait to use my cross stitch template again soon.