2/24 „Do It Yourself“ – Wooden Pegs for Decoration Tutorial

By Ellie on 28/11/2014 in Christmas, Free Patterns & Tutorials, Коледа
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A very easy and quick to do project that can be used in many different creative projects after that. I often use decorated pegs instead of Christmas toys for decorating a small Christmas tree. I usually use them when wrapping Christmas gifts. My Christmas gifts last year looked this way:

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So, let’s start this short tutorial.

Necessary materials:
– wooden pes (I buy them from the local small shops for household goods)
– Felt – all colors that you like and especially pink and brown (for the muffin), some shades of green for the Christmas tree (and some shades of brown), red as well
– Ribbons
– Buttons and beads
– Whatever you like and can find 
– Some colorful rope will be also useful
– Hot glue gun (or double sided mounting tape, something that will keep textile and wood together strongly)

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Option 2: you can also buy pre-selected and already prepared decorations and the wooden pegs separately and only attach them to each other

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Option 3: You can of course buy the ready decorated pegs and use them for wrapping your gifts as well as for your Christmas craft projects:-)
I used them for another project, see below at the end of the post 🙂

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1. Cut some pieces from the green felt, to create the shape of a Christmas tree. Attach the pieces – first the stem and then the upper part of the three to the wooden peg by using the hot glue gun.

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2. Use suitable beads to decorate the felt Christmas tree.

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3. Use a small piece of textile, for example 5 х10 см in a color and pattern that will suit Santa ;-). Fold in two and sew. This will be a small Santa bag. Sew at the wrong side of the bag and then bring out the right side of the bag. Fill in with cotton or some other filling – silicone granules, batting / wadding etc. Use rope or ribbon to wrap the bag. Again, attach it to the wooden peg by using hot glue gun.

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4. Use a small decorative bell, ribbon (best if it is in Christmas colors) and again attach with hot glue gun.

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5. Cut two small triangles from felt and attach them with a button and you can have a star 🙂

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6. A piece of rough material approx. 5 cm () cм x 10 cm (2” x 4”), fold in two, make two outside seams, fill in and you have another Santa’s bag 🙂

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I made 24 different decorated wooden pegs.
If you put a number on each of them (from 1 to 24), you can make an advent calendar :-).
I didn’t mad a photo of the ready calendar, but I used small paper dotted packages and filled them with candies.

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The quick option for the decorated pegs would look like this:

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Last year’s post for gift wrapping is here: ТУК 🙂

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