Felt Dove Ornaments Sewing Pattern & Peace on Earth Embroidery Pattern

Sew lots of doves this Christmas with my latest PDF pattern!

 

 

The printable PDF pattern includes a step-by-step guide to sewing the ornaments, and templates for two sizes of the birds... plus a Peace on Earth embroidery pattern!

I've included instructions for adding embroidery, sequins, and beads to your doves. You can copy my doves, or get creative and add your own embellishments.

 

These look so pretty against the dark green of a Christmas tree, and make lovely gifts. 

As with all the PDF patterns I sell, once you've bought the doves pattern you have my permission to use it to make items for sale at craft fairs or in your own online shops.

Click here to buy my Doves pattern from my Etsy shop (the file will be available to download immediately after purchase).

Dove & Robin Christmas Ornament Tutorials

UPDATE:  my felt doves tutorial and little felt robins tutorial (originally shared with my newsletter subscribers) are both now available as printable PDF patterns in my Etsy shop!

Felt Doves: Sew Pretty Bird Ornaments for Your Christmas Tree

UPDATE:  I originally shared this project with my newsletter subscribers, it's now available as a printable PDF pattern in my Etsy shop!

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Learn to sew some pretty felt doves...

 

 

 

The doves tutorial includes a step-by-step guide to sewing the ornaments, and templates for two sizes of the birds.

 

You can stitch plain white doves or add embellishments for extra loveliness. The bigger doves are particularly great to decorate as there's more space to work with!

I added sequins and beads, and also embroidered one of the doves' wings with some snowflakes.

 

I love how all of the doves I stitched turned out, but I'm particularly pleased with the snowflake one!

The ornaments are double sided, so you make two sides that are a mirror image of each other. Here's an in-progress pic of one of the sequinned doves:

P.S. I talk about these designs as being Christmas craft projects, but of course you don't need to celebrate Christmas to want to sew a sparkly dove! If you're not a lover of Christmas I hope you'll forgive my linguistic habit and stitch yourself some felt birds anyway xx

Where does the time go?

Actually, I know exactly where the time goes: it gets eaten up by sitting at the computer faffing about. Nom nom, yummy spare time says my computer: check your emails! reply to them! file away those pictures! delete the ones you don't need! back them up! start your accounts! hunt around for that photo you put somewhere! look up new cameras! etc etc etc.

Needless to say, I have been goggle-eyed in front of the computer screen for the past few days. It is most dull. I still haven't replied to all my emails. I still have a meeeeeellion photos to label and file, and I still haven't really made much progress with my accounts. Sigh.

I have at least done a couple of scans of my work from this past week, to try to make up in some small way for my lack of a camera. My camera broke on day 280, but after taking lots of lovely photos (hurrah!). I am totally counting photo-taking as craftiness! Then day 281 I moved furniture around to extend my crafty workspace (and rescue my supplies from the depths of the spare room). Even if I had a working camera I couldn't show you this yet as it's still the most embarrasing mess!

So, then this week has been days 282-90 and I've been drawing many many new patterns (staying top secret until I get them sewn!), and also attending to some works in progress. I finished a big batch of doves and bluebirds, which look like this:
And I've also been sewing and embroidering LOTS of oak leaves. The finished ones look like this...... but there are more still to embroider. The leaves are destined to be lots of fun things: necklaces, bracelets, hairbands and brooches. A whole range of leafy accessories :)