DIY angel on the Christmas tree

Christmas and New Year are the most magical times of the year. All people are waiting for fun and New Year's miracles. An angel is a wonderful symbol of this period. They personify magic, convey the spirit of the holidays, and are very cute and touching. Therefore, they are perfect for decorating a New Year's tree.

You can buy angels in the store, or you can make them at home. If you make them yourself, they will add additional comfort to the spruce.

What can you make an angel out of?

There are many materials for making. For example, if a person is good at sewing, then you can use fabric or felt to make an angel. If friendship with thread and needle does not work out, you can use colored or gift paper or cardboard. Remnants of wallpaper, ribbons, beads, rhinestones, lace, openwork napkins, and feathers are perfect for decoration. Angel figures are also crocheted.

You just need to show all your imagination and all your creativity. And then the beautiful and gentle angels will become an amazing decoration on the New Year's tree. By the way, they decorate not only her. Using long ribbons, they are fixed to the ceiling or hung from a chandelier.

Three ways to make angels with your own hands

Sew an angel from fabric

To make such a figurine you will need:

• Light fabric for the figurine, it is better to take a flesh color;
• Threads and needles;
• Floss for making hair of a future angel;
• Beads or small beads for eyes;
• Sintepon or cotton wool for stuffing;
• Material for decorating the dress - ribbons, rhinestones, lace and whatever your heart desires;

Step-by-step production:

• First you need a pattern;

The pattern can be found and downloaded on the Internet, because there are a great many of them. If there is no printer, then the found pattern must be carefully redrawn onto paper.

• The pattern is placed on a sheet of paper and carefully outlined. The resulting parts must be cut out;
• Next they need to be transferred to the fabric. The details should be placed on the selected fabric and traced. After which the fabric must be stitched without cutting out the parts;

IMPORTANT! It is important to remember the dotted lines on the stencils. They must be highlighted on the fabric in a different color.

• The next step is cutting out the resulting parts of the future angel. In this case, it is necessary to retreat slightly from the stitched edge;
• Then we start stuffing the figure. Before doing this, it must be turned inside out. You need to stuff your head, neck, feet and hands tightly;

If it is necessary for the angel’s legs to bend, a transverse seam must be made in place of the knees.

• It is necessary to sew pants, which then need to be put on the angel’s legs;
• After which the arms and legs are sewn to the body;

It is advisable to sew the handles with a hidden seam.

• Next, you need to make an angel's hair. You need to embroider a hairstyle from floss or “iris” using satin stitch, leaving a few strands near the ears. You need to make braids or braids out of them. You can tie elegant ribbons on braids or ponytails;
• Beads or beads are sewn in place of the eyes.If they are not at hand, the eyes must be carefully drawn with felt-tip pens. You also need to draw blush;
• A dress is being sewn. It is advisable to disguise the seams; for this you can use ribbons. The dress also needs to be decorated with materials prepared in advance for this;
• The wings also need to be stuffed with sentapon, but this needs to be done loosely. The wings can also be decorated, for example, by sewing lace to them;

Second option

This is the second fabric option. But it is very easy to make and requires absolutely no sewing skills.

REFERENCE! To make such an angel you will need: a small piece of fabric, padding polyester, ribbons and materials for decoration.

Technique:

• You need to cut a square from the fabric;
• Place a piece of centepon in the center. The resulting ball must be tied with ribbon. This will be the head of an angel;
• The fabric is spread out so that the wings of an angel are formed. After which they need to be tied crosswise with thread;
• To make such an angel seem airy, the edges of the fabric can be slightly fluffed. Instead of thick fabric, use a wide cut of nylon or lace fabric;
• Sew sequins along the edges of the wings;
• Make eyes on the face using small beads, beads or a felt-tip pen;
• The head of such an angel can be tied with a ribbon;

As ribbons, you can take those that are used to decorate gift boxes and bouquets.

Third option

The angel can be made from felt. For this you will need: small pieces of felt of different colors, a needle, thread, pins, scissors, ribbon, beads or beads, material for decoration.

Step-by-step execution technique:

• For the angel you will need to prepare a template.Just like for a fabric angel, the template can be taken from the Internet, printed on paper, or carefully redrawn;
• All details of the template must be carefully transferred to pieces of felt. For each detail you need to use a different color;

NOTE! If a toy is made using a ready-made template from the Internet, then, as a rule, along with it there is a photo of the finished angel. In this case, when choosing colors for templates, you need to be guided by the existing image. But you can show your imagination and make a figurine of the desired colors.

• The resulting parts must be sewn together. You need to sew with neat stitches over the edge;
• The angel's dress needs to be decorated. To do this you need to take prepared material. You can sew sequins, beads or rhinestones along the bottom of the hem. The sleeves of the dress also need to be decorated;
• The angel's head must be decorated with ribbons. Hair can also be made from felt;
• You need to make eyes on the face using small beads or small beads;
• Using super glue, the head must be glued to the body;
• You also need to sew a ribbon to hang the figures on the Christmas tree;

An angel made of felt can be made voluminous. Then all the parts need to be cut out in double quantity. You will also need padding polyester to stuff the figure.

There are a lot of options for making angels. In addition to those listed, angels need to be made from paper.

To do this you will need a sheet of paper, a stencil and decoration materials. You need to draw a figurine of an angel on paper; you can do this using a ready-made stencil.

The paper must be one color, white. Or you can take several colors and make all the details of the figure multi-colored.

After the figure is cut out, it needs to be decorated.You can glue feathers or lace paper onto the wings. The hem can be decorated with sequins or ribbons, or you can take scissors and make cuts along the bottom of the hem. The resulting strips will need to be beautifully curled.

The resulting angel figurines will serve as a wonderful and unusual decoration. You can make more of them without stopping at just one of the manufacturing options. Let the angels decorate Christmas and New Year's Eve.