With Christmas festivities, parties and get-togethers happening all throughout December, it’s time to bring out your festive earrings hurray! If you’re looking for something a bit different to wear and want a creative project this year, why not make your own felt Christmas tree earrings?

These are oh so simple to make, yet they are bold and impressive and you can customise the trees to your liking.

Plus felt is such an easy material to work with due to its non-fraying nature and makes for lightweight earrings, so it is very comfortable for the ears.

In this tutorial you will be using the blanket stitch technique and hand sewing sequins and beads onto felt. If you don’t know how to do a blanket stitch see this useful wikiHow.

Something important to note though* You will need to buy ready made ear wires along with any jump rings needed. Or you can make the exact pictured ear wires yourself using this tutorial on fancy ear wires.

So if you are ready to make your felt Christmas tree earrings, this is what you will need:

Materials

• Green felt fabric sheet
• Sequins 6mm,8mm,10mm
• Preciosa beads 4mm round/bicone
• Seed beads 2mm
• Green embroidery floss/thread
• Sewing threads
• Ear wires (or make your own)

Tools

• Hand sewing needles
• Sewing head pins x 2
• Scissors
• Pencil, ruler and paper
• Punch pliers (optional)

Firstly, make a pattern template of a Christmas tree 4cm wide and 5cm tall, using a pencil, ruler and paper. Pin this on to the felt fabric with the head pins and cut the felt trees out.

Have your selection of sequins and beads ready to go and start sewing them on to the front of a felt Christmas tree, using the same coloured thread.

When sewing on a sequin, thread on a 2mm seed bead in front of the sequin, then thread back down the sequin hole into the felt fabric nearby. Tie it off at the back of the felt tree. This is preferred, so that the seed bead covers the sequin hole in a decorative way, whilst holding them both in place.

Once you have finished embellishing the felt Christmas tree, the back will look something like the below picture. You can see each sequin and bead has been tied off individually. Cut off any excess thread that might stick out on the sides.

Place the second tree over the back of the first tree, covering the threads and keep them lined up together.

Start a blanket stitch between the two layers near the top of the tree and on the straight edge. For the blanket stitch, one green thread has been used from the embroidery floss, but you can use more if you want a bolder stitch.

See this useful wikiHow on how to do a blanket stitch if you don’t know how to do this.

Work your way around the tree until you get back to the starting point and finish the blanket stitch there.

When you have finished the blanket stitch, make a hole in each Christmas tree for the ear wires/jump rings at the top of the tree.

You can use a metal punch for this or use sewing needles by increasing by the thickness, until the hole is big enough.

It’s really important to not break your blanket stitch at this point, so pick an area away from the stitch, but as high up as possible.

Have your ear wires ready to put through the holes. I have used an ear wire only for this design, but you can use jump rings too if you want the Christmas trees to have more movement.

See the tutorial on fancy ear wires to make the exact ear wires below or have a pair ready.

I prefer using sterling silver for the ear wires as it is a high quality metal, hypoallergenic and has antimicrobial properties.

This is the end result with the ear wires only and you can stop at this point if you want to.

As an optional extra step you can wire wrap a couple of beads onto the ear wires. This gives additional decoration to the earrings and helps keep the Christmas tree securely in place.

I have used 0.4mm sterling silver round wire, 4mm bicone beads and 2mm seed beads for the wire wrapping.

And that’s your felt Christmas tree earrings all complete, you will now have an eye-catching pair of earrings to wear for the festive season!

For some extra ideas, you could make these earrings in another colour such as blue or white, or change the colour of the stitching to red instead of green perhaps?

I hope you have enjoyed crafting your Christmas tree earrings and reading this tutorial.

Feel free to share this post and let me know what you think in the comments, I would love to hear about your results. If you need to ask any questions about how to make these, please contact me using the contact form on this website and I will be happy to help.

Happy Christmas earring making! 🙂

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