Hi, Itís Jenny from Missouri Star Quilt Company.
Itís that time of year again, and weíre all looking for a fun, new idea for our Christmas
decorations, and have I got one for you.
We all have leftover strips, you know, loads and loads of strips all over the place, and
I realized that if we sew them together, we can make these darling little ornaments, big
ornaments to hang around all over the place.
Isnít that so cute?
Iím going to show you how to do that.
Youíre going to need a circle cutter, easy circle cut ruler, and a small rotary cutter
that will go inside there.
Youíre going to sew about 10 strips together, and weíre going to cut it in a circle.
Weíre also going to cut an identical circle for the back of it, and Iíll show you how
to do that.
We cut this one first, fold it in half, place this on the fold line, and weíre going to
cut this at 9 inches because that is about as big as this block can go.
So here we go.
Put your little cutter in here.
Itís got that little lip right there that fits right down inside there.
Make sure your fingers arenít up there on the 9 line, and press and roll around, make
sure you get over these little seams and that itís all nice and trimmed out of there.
Alright, letís see what we got.
Well, almost, I almost made it.
Here we go.
One more little place over here.
If you find you have a lot of places that you miss, itís probably worth your while
to put your ruler back on.
Iím here at the seam marks; got that this time, here we go.
Alright so now we have this cute little round circle.
Weíve got to have a back to put on it.
So weíre going to cut a little piece.
Iíve cut one here already, but let me cut it again just to show you how easy, especially
working with a single fabric, it works really well.
Make sure I donít roll over those.
Iíll put it here.
Weíre going to cut this at 9 inches, the same.
There we go.
This one should be just perfect.
Almost.
There we go.
So now we have a little back and we have a front, and we have another back, and we want
to put some stiffener so this hangs well, so Iíve just used the iron on Pellon.
Itís smooth on one side and bumpy on the other.
Weíre going to cut this in a circle, and weíre going to cut this just a little bit
smaller, so that weíre not sewing it into our seam.
So weíre going to cut this one on the 8 inch line.
So put your fold line on there.
This will just give us a little leeway so that itís not so hard to turn.
That cut really easily.
Now we are going to take this and weíre going to iron it on to the back of our big ornament.
So letís use our iron right here, weíve got it all set up.
So weíre going to iron this on.
This just takes a few seconds of holding it in one place to secure it on to your circle.
And weíve sewn these all together on this, make sure this is pressed nice and flat.
Doesnít that make a nice round circle with that ruler?
So now weíre going to put these right sides together.
If your back has a pattern on it like this santa standing up, we probably want to leave
him at the top.
So weíre going to make where the top is with a little pin, and weíre going to leave an
opening to turn it here.
Weíll put 2 little pins right here so we know when to start and stop.
The hold doesnít have to be big, we just want to leave a little opening.
So weíll sew all around here a quarter of an inch, and weíll go over to the sewing
machine and do that, I want to make sure this is on there nice and tight.
There we go, alright so letís head over to that sewing machine.
Alright so here we are sewing a quarter of an inch around our circle.
Weíve left the gap at the top so we can turn it, just go ahead, weíre going to straight
stitch this around, make sure your edges stay together.
This is a really quick, fun decoration for your house, to make these fun circles with
all our leftover strips.
With all the strips I have leftover, I could probably make a hundred.
I donít need a hundred, but I could.
Alright so now you can see here, weíll trim this thread.
You can see weíve left an opening here between our pins, and now weíre going to turn that
right side out.
So letís go back to the cutting table.
Ok, so now weíre going to turn this inside out.
You do that by opening this hole and just kind of pushing it through.
There we go.
Now what Iím going to do is Iím going to take a pen, or I may just use my finger.
This is going very well, and you run it along this seam line so it makes a nice round ball.
I have a couple of places back down here.
Letís just press it out.
Ok, so letís iron that.
Iron it down.
There we go, and our Santaís standing up on the right side, and we have this little
opening right here, and we donít even need to worry about that because it wouldnít be
an ornament without its little hanger.
So weíre going to make that hanger.
We ironed some fusible webbing onto aluminum foil.
It gives it a real strength, a real sturdiness.
Weíve drawn our own little pattern on here, whatever you think an ornament topper looks
like.
And Iím going to fold this over and cut this so I only have to do it once, cut it out once,
so let me grab some scissors.
So weíre just going to cut this out.
We have it folded over so weíre cutting two at once.
And for some reason I just love these little pointy things down here, you can do it straight
across, you can do it however you want, itís just a fun, quick idea, what to do with some
extra scraps.
Then weíre going to cut up this other side.
There we go.
An easy way to cut a circle is you just fold it in half.
Otherwise you have to poke the hole in it, and it can be dangerous, so weíre just going
to fold this in half and weíre just going to go and cut around it like this, it just
gives you a nice, easy circle.
There we go.
Then we have these 2 silver things.
Weíre going to peal our paper off the back.
On fabric, you can score it, but on this, you just have to be careful.
So you see all of your sticky stuff is on here, on the inside.
And it really looks like a little tin topper, itís just so cute.
Ok, so then weíre going to put this, weíre going to match these up, and we know that
if they match up on the top they are going to match up on the bottom because they weíre
cut exactly the same.
So weíre going to iron these together, make sure that this is at the top of our ornament
and itís on just where we want it because it will stick.
There we go.
Flip it over and do the other side.
Now weíre going to head to the sewing machine.
I donít think this is necessary, but I went ahead and did it anyway, we just stitched
along the edge around here, so weíre going to go to the sewing machine and do that, and
then our little ornament will be finished up, itís just so cute.
Believe it or not, sewing on tin foil with Pellon on it is pretty easy.
It sews down well, holds together, gives it some strength.
And we just slide around it, and we get here down to the bottom.
I like to leave my needle down so that I can just turn it when I get to these corners.
The cool thing is because you cut your foil piece out of this same piece at the same time,
you know theyíre identical, so as you sew along on these, you know that you are sewing
right along the ones on the back too, you donít even have to check that out because
you matched them up.
So one more turn and there we go.
A little back stitch.
Here we are.
How cute is this!
Now you could use this, you could do a solid fabric.
I love the striped look because it has the look of an ornament.
But this would be cute so many different ways, with so many different fabrics, and it just
makes a darling little ornament.
We hope you enjoyed this tutorial from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.