Embroidered Pendants

If you have been around here for any amount of time you've probably picked up on the fact that I love felt.  I have made just about everything from felt: finger puppets, mug cozies, children' books, electronics cases and ornaments.  But, I had never made jewelry...until now!

Last week I made three felt, embroidered pendants.  Aren't they pretty?  These are easy, they just take a little time.  Here's the how to:

Supplies:
Felt (the good wool stuff is best)
Embroidery Thread,
Ornate Buttons
Washers
Needle Nosed Pillars
Ring Finding
Chain

Since this could be done in a lot of ways, I'm not going to go into a ton of detail here.

1. Cut out three different sized circles from different colors of felt.  I used a pattern for this step just because I don't naturally cut perfect circles.
2. Embroider the top.  For one pendant I used a back stitch with a cross stich over it.  From another I used various pedal stitched on top of each other.  And for the red pendant I did various backstitches around the circle.  I worked from the center out while embroidering.
3. Once the front is done, stitch a washer to the back.  This will give it weight so it will hang like a necklace should.
4.  Then cut out a back piece, the same size was your biggest circle.  Attach to the back (so the washer is sandwiched inside) with a back stitch, or whatever you choose.
5.  Finally, using the end of a needle nosed pillars, poke a hole through the top of the completed pendant.  Insert a ring finding and close with the pillars.

I'm really excited about these.  They are statement jewelry...without being too much of a statement!  Which one do you like best?

This might actually get me to start wearing jewelry!

As always, I'm so touched you stopped by!