Love Embroidery felt bauble kit

When I was tidying my craft space I came across the Love Embroidery felt bauble kit from issue 32 (published in 2022). The kit was designed by Nancy Nicholson and included 7 pre cut felt pieces, embroidery and sewing thread and ribbon. All you need to provide is a needle, scissors, tracing paper and a thin piece of card to go between the felt layers to add stiffness.

The kit had been sitting in a drawer for a while so I took the pieces out and gave the piece of ribbon a quick iron to remove the crease. Then I transferred the pattern on to a piece of parchment paper. I only had standard kitchen parchment paper to hand so used this. Then I lined up the felt circles using the parchment paper as a guide and pinned them in place whilst I started stitching.

I followed the instructions in the magazine (which I took a photo of as this was a project I wanted to take on a trip to Paris). Then I was able to carry on stitching whilst we took the Eurostar to Paris for a few days.

This was a great project to take away as it all fitted neatly in my sewing pouch. I was able to bring it out whenever I had five minutes to relax. The pattern featured a couple of new stitches for me, such as the buttonhole wheel, fly stitch and herringbone stitch. I took photos of these stitch instructions from the magazine so I could follow each step!

When I had finished the embroidery it was time to remove the paper and this took longer than the stitching! The paper was really difficult to remove without pulling the embroidery threads! You can see there are still some little bits left.

I finished putting the bauble together by placing a thin piece of card between the two pieces of felt and whip stitching them together, adding the ribbon at the top to hang it.

The felt bauble is a fun addition to my collection of handmade Christmas decorations and I’m really pleased I finished it (if you ignore the bits of paper).