For Christmas 2012, I set myself the task of not buying any new decorations. My frivolous festive follies are known to go OTT. But wanting a woodland Christmas theme meant using only some of what I already had in storage.
I also had a stack of cheap red felt and more spare shirt buttons that I have shirts. So necessity plus buttons and felt said one thing to me: Mushrooms.
First, I drew the template for the two parts of a mushroom – stem and cap. I then cut the caps from two stacked pieces of the red felt, and the stem form a single, heavier piece of off-white felt, and a loop from some glittery red string.
Sewing the buttons to one red cap piece, I then pinned all of the elements in place (this is a no-brainer really: loop at the top, caps back to back and stem tucked between the two cap pieces.) As I ran the sewing machine around the cap, I left a tiny opening through which I stuffed filling, finished the sewing and strung up the new woodland decorations on snowy white branches for all the woodland creatures to admire.
Love the white mixed with the red. Gawjusss
Very cute! I like the white branches too!