How to Make Felt Cookies

These felt cookie ornaments are a sweet craft for the holiday season and are perfect for sewing beginners. Use our printable pattern to create adorable felt sugar cookies that look just like the real thing! They're great for pretend play or hanging on the Christmas tree.

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Yield: felt sugar cookie

Author: Debbie Chapman

Cost: $2

Equipment

Materials

Instructions

Step 1: Find what you need

Gather your supplies and materials.

Step 2: Cut out the felt pieces

Print our felt cookies template (find the pattern link in the materials list above!) and cut out the larger outlines for the cookies you'd like to make.
Cut 2 of the shapes from tan felt.
Then cut the smaller (inside) shape from the paper pattern. Use the smaller shape to cut 1 piece of icing from white felt.

Step 3: Sew on the icing and ornament hanger

Use a backstitch to sew the icing onto one piece of the cookie. To do this, set the icing in the center of the felt and bring your threaded needle up through both layers.
Bring the needle down about 1/8 inch away, creating a small first stitch. Then bring the thread up 1/8 inch away from the last stitch. Push the needle back down where the first stitch ends.
Repeat the backstitch, working your way around the cookie. Tie more thread onto the needle as needed.
To add the bead "sprinkles", bring the needle up from the back where you'd like the sprinkle to sit.
Add the seed bead onto the needle and then push it down through the felt, right next to where it came up.
Repeat, adding different colours of "sprinkles" randomly across the icing.
Cut an 8 inch piece of white ribbon and tie it into an ornament hanger loop.
Sew the ornament hanger to the top back of the cookie piece, going through the backstitch section several times to secure it in place.

Step 4: Sew both sides of the cookie together

Set the second cookie piece on top of the back, lining up the edges.
Sew the cookie together with a blanket stitch. To do this, first bring the needle up through both pieces of felt, about 1/8 inch away from the edge.
Bring the thread almost all the way through and tie a double knot to secure the first stitch. Tuck the tail inside the cookie.
To make the blanket stitch, bring the needle up about 1/8 inch away from the previous stitch. Before bringing the needle all the way through, wrap the thread around the needle.
Continue making blanket stitches around the cookie until there's 1 to 2 inches left unsewn.
Add stuffing into the cookie until it's nicely firm, but still relatively flat.
Continue the blanket stitch to close off the cookie. Finish off the thread by going through the last stitch a few times.
Then push the needle down at the seam and bring it up through the cookie. Cut off the excess thread and pinch the felt to hide the thread inside the cookie.
Your felt cookie is complete!

Notes

Looking for more felt food crafts? Here's a few of our favourites:

Felt Donuts Pattern

DIY Felt Burger

Felt Strawberry Pattern