How to Make Stitched Felt Pooh Bear and Hunny Pot Ornaments

Hello, crafty friends! I’m Adrienne Boese, better known online as Alice Scraps Wonderland. Today, I’m taking you through how to create ornaments using the Stitched Pooh collection from Spellbinders. I’m laying out each step to make it super easy for you to stitch together a Pooh Bear and a honey pot, so you can turn them into ornaments or sweet little bag charms!

I highly recommend getting the Classic Pooh Collection Merino Wool Felt Sheets from Spellbinders for this project. The felt is high quality and cuts nicely with dies. Plus, it contains the perfect colors to create your Pooh Bear and honey pot.

Creating Your Stitched Pooh Bear and Hunny Pot

I’m laying the steps out in an easy bulleted list—and it includes when to add the optional embroidery!

• Die cut your pieces of felt using the Stitched Classic Pooh Etched Dies. I found it helpful to run each cut through my Platinum twice to ensure the fibers of felt were fully cut through. In the photo above, I’ve laid out how many of each die you’ll want to cut (some of the layers are already placed together in this photo). It includes:
  • 1 Pooh Bear body with cutouts for the ear and eye in yellow felt
  • 1 Pooh Bear body solid layer in yellow felt
  • 6 Pooh Bear legs in yellow felt
  • 6 Pooh Bear arms in yellow felt
  • 2 Pooh Bear nose and circles in black felt
  • 2 hunny pot jars in tan felt
  • 3 hunny jar lids in blue felt
  • 1 hunny jar label with letters in blue felt
  • 1 hunny jar label solid base layer in blue felt
  • 1 hunny jar label solid base layer in white felt
  • 2 hunny drips in golden yellow felt
  • 2 bee base layers in black felt
  • 2 bee stripes layer in golden yellow felt
  • 2 bee wings in white felt
• Some of these layers you’ve cut will be stuffing as it would be too difficult to try to stuff these small pieces with polyester filling. Using scissors, trim down these cuts by at least 1/8 of an inch around all sides/edges. These cuts include:
  • 2 of the arms
  • 2 of the legs
  • 1 jar lid (trim off the ball handle on the top of the lid completely)
• Using your favorite liquid glue, glue the stuffing felt layers to the outside pieces, making a little sandwich with the stuffing layer in the middle (arms, legs, and jar lid).
• Optional: If you are turning these into bag charms to wrap around a handle of a tote bag, glue your cord into your jar sandwich on one end, and glue the other end onto the inside of the solid Pooh Bear layer.

Tip: I recommend keeping your glue to just the area of the stuffing pieces, leaving the edges of the outside pieces glue-free. While not impossible, it can be more difficult to get your needle through hardened, dried glue.

• Using liquid glue, attach the black circles to the backside of the Pooh Bear, covering the holes for the ear and eye. You may want to trim these circles down a bit, especially for the ear, to keep the black a bit back from the edge of the yellow felt. This will provide a more beautiful finished product.
• Glue the blue jar label with the letters to the white label backing layer with liquid glue.
• Attach the yellow bee stripes to the black bee body with liquid glue.

Tip: To press your glued layers of felt together better, place some acrylic stamping blocks on top of them while the glue dries. You want this glue to dry completely before adding any stitching!

• Glue the labels onto the jars. I glued the label with the letters to one jar, then used that as a guide to help me glue the solid label to the other jar layer by holding them back-to-back so I could line the labels up properly.
• Stitch around the blue jar lid and the blue labels with DMC Cotton Floss #794 using your favorite stitch. You can leave the bottom of the jar lid unstitched. I used a straight running stitch, but you can also use a blanket stitch. (Stitching the labels on to your jars now will make them really secure—especially if you want to make these bag charms.)
• Optional: Add embroidery to your felt pieces at this point. I added a woven wheel rose to the front and back of the jar using DMC Cotton Floss #321, then added lazy daisy leaves using Floss #907.

Tip: If you want to sketch out your optional embroidery design on your felt, use heat erasable pens. Once you are done stitching, go over the design with a heat tool to erase any visible sketch lines. Don’t heat acrylic felt!

• Glue the blue jar lid to both tan jar layers, sandwiching the very bottom of the blue lid between the tan jar layers.
• Glue the tan jar layers along the sides, leaving the bottom of the jar open for stuffing.
• Stitch the jar layers using Floss #3782 and an embroidery needle, leaving bottom open and a long tail on the start of your thread. I started in one bottom corner and worked my way around to the opposite bottom corner. Stop stitching here, but leave your needle and thread attached. Also, hide your tan thread under your blue jar label layers by only stitching through the tan and white layers—this takes some patience, but it is so worth it.
• Stuff your hunny jar with a bit of polyester filling, making sure you don’t overstuff it.
• Continue stitching your jar by closing it up along the bottom. If you’ve done a running straight stitch, you’ll want to work your way back around to where you started, filling in every other missing stitch. Once your stitches are complete, remove your embroidery needle and tie your thread tails together and snip off the excess.

Tip: You might find it helpful to use a pencil eraser or wax-tipped tool to help you stuff your felt pieces. The eraser/wax easily grab onto the polyester fill fibers so you can push your stuffing in easier.

• Glue the honey drips onto your stitched jar using liquid glue.
• Using a French knot stitch, attach the bee wings onto the body using DMC’s Ecru Cotton Floss for both of your bees.
• Glue the bees onto the front and back of your pot using liquid glue.
• Stitch the arms and legs of your Pooh Bear together using DMC Floss #744, again leaving a long tail of thread at the start. You can close these up all the way, then tie your thread ends together to secure your stitching and snip off the excess thread.
• Attach the arms and legs to the body pieces—attach one leg and arm to the front Pooh layer and one leg and arm to the back Pooh layer. I used a single straight stitch, going over that stitch 2 or 3 times to really secure them in place. (Make sure you leave room to do your stitching along the edges of the Pooh Bear body.)
• Glue the two Pooh Bear body pieces together, leaving the bottom open.
• Stitch around the edge of the Pooh Bear body, leaving the bottom open for stuffing. I started at one bottom corner, again leaving a long tail of thread, then stitched around to the other bottom corner of the body. You’ll need to stitch under the arms and legs, so just take your time in those spots.
• Stuff your Pooh Bear with polyester filling, then finish stitching your Pooh Bear closed, tying off the ends of your floss to secure your stitches.
• Glue the noses on to both sides of your Pooh Bear using liquid glue.
• Optional: If you are turning these into ornaments, use a coordinating embroidery floss and needle to add a loop of thread at the top of your Pooh Bear and hunny pot. I used Floss #744 and #794.

I hope that you enjoyed this step-by-step assembly for felt plushies using Spellbinder’s Stitched Classic Pooh Etched Dies. If ornaments or bag charms aren’t your thing, you can create a sweet banner and string on some pom poms or wool balls. Or, because this die set doesn’t have stitching holes, you can use these to cut paper or felt and create some sweet cards or scrapbook layouts. Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram or my blog for more fun inspiration and tutorials, and until next time, happy crafting!

Adrienne

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Other Supplies

DMC Embroidery Needles, Poly-fil Polyester Filling, Madam Sew Heat Erasable Fabric Marking Pens, Scrapbook.com Artis Liquid Glue, Scrapbook.com Craft Pick, Acrylic Stamp Blocks, Embroidery Scissors