Tutorial: Christmas gift cone

Josie from Sew for Soul shares a tutorial for making a Christmas gift cone. You can hang it like a stocking, and fill it with fun Christmas treats. It’s shown here with a figgy pudding applique, but any Christmas themed applique would be cute. In her post she also shows a pretty version made with a fabric yo-yo for embellishment.

Click below for her tutorial:

Christmas Gift Cone Tutorial, by Sew for Soul

[photo from Sew for Soul]

Looking for more sewing patterns for Plum Puddings or Figgy Christmas Puddings?
Check these out on Etsy. Have you purchased your plum pudding yet? Check out these plum puddings.
What is a plum pudding? Christmas plum pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served as part of the Christmas dinner in the UK as a dessert. Served with custard, hot or cold. Once known as figgy pudding or plum pudding, due to the inclusion of prunes, the origins of Christmas pudding date back as far as the 15th century.

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I’m always tempted by the pretty velvets at the fabric store. So much texture! And the way the fibers catch the light! But sewing on velvet is trickier than you’d think. That nap that lends beautiful texture also likes to slip and crawl. That nap can also spell disaster if you cut a piece the wrong direction. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t use buy that velvet and sew it into something gorgeous, you just need to go into your velvet sewing project prepared. And Melissa at Melly Sews has a post that takes you step by step through sewing on velvet.

Velvet is such a luscious fabric, especially for winter sewing projects. Of course there are velvet Christmas sewing projects – stockings, tree skirts, santa hats – but velvet is beautiful for all winter. Think of all the gorgeous velvet dresses, evening bags, hair accessories, even pillows and other home décor that you see all winter long.

Melly Sews’ post gives you the tips and tricks you need to know in order for your velvet sewing project to end up a success. There are types of projects better suited for velvets, and kinds of projects to avoid. She describes the different types of velvet available. And she also tells the best way to lay out and cut your pattern pieces from velvet fabric. Her tutorial also covers marking, pressing, and of course sewing that beautiful fabric. There’s also a video included in case that’s your preferred method for learning.

Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric.

And if you want to learn more about that lovely blue velvet dress shown, she has a post that tells more about it including 2 ways to style it depending on if you want to be more dressy or more casual.

[photo credit: Melly Sews]

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