Use old plaid shirts and embroidery hoops to craft these DIY embroidery hoop Christmas ornaments. This is an easy and budget-friendly craft with stunning results to use in decorating your Christmas tree and home for the holidays.
Optional: blackout fabric, thick paper or cardboard, felt, iron
Instructions
Cut out all the usable pieces of fabric from your shirts by removing the seams.
Open up your embroidery hoop. Set the solid ring under your fabric. Then take the ring with the screw and place it on top.
Optional step: Put a piece of blackout fabric down first to make your ornament less transparent to the light.
Press the top ring over the fabric and the bottom ring.
Begin to tighten the screw making sure the fabric is spread taut. Completely tighten the screw.
Flip your embroidery hoop over to the opposite side. If you used two layers of fabric, you'll want to start by trimming the first layer (in this case the blackout fabric) as flush as you can to the ring.
Then trim your shirt fabric layer leaving about 1/2-inch excess all the way around.
Add a bead of glue to the inside back of the embroidery hoop.
Using your fingers, fold over the excess fabric and press it into the glue to secure it.
Cut a piece of ribbon and attach it with a knot to the screw of your embroidery hoop.
And with that, your embroidery hoop ornaments are ready to hang!