Every Christmas we make each other ornaments. This all started back in 2005 – our first Christmas together. Dave blogs about this ornament and our tradition.
I decided that I’d start to make us an ornament each year too. Before I show you the one I made for Dave, here is the one he made for me. Inside this ornament is peppers from the garden. He blogs about the peppers and his ornament here.
I love that it has his homegrown peppers peeking out and the two messages: Peace and Joy.
For my ornament I wanted to make something soft. I bought this shirt years ago at a thrift store. It was too big for me, but IÂ purchased it to cut up and make ornaments or put the angels on a wall hanging. I dug out the material from my stash and started playing.
I cut out an angel and ironed her onto heavy weight fusible Pellon and backed with flannel. I then cut it out closer to the design. I was going to stitch around the angel, but decided it was fine the way it was. I colored the white fusible edges with one of my favorite black markers, the Dotta Riffic.
I could have added some hand stitching, but I loved her just the way she was.
To keep with this angel theme, I scanned her and added her to his Christmas card. Here is the card and the ornament together.
Although we decided to pare down our traditions this year, this is one I’m glad we kept.
What a lovely tradition and your ornaments are both so unique!
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