Show some love for the greatest state this holiday season. While my template is for Maine, you could easily design a template of your own and follow the same steps to create an ornament for your home state.
Materials:
*Felt in a color of your choice
*Metallic marker
*Heart button
*All purpose adhesive (optional)
*Needle and thread
*Stuffing
*Metallic thread
Directions:
*Print out the Maine template below or find/create a template for your state. The dot on my template marks the approximate location of the Bangor area, which is where my family is from and thus where I wanted the heart on my ornament to be.
*Trace two copies of the state template onto the felt using metallic marker and cut out.
*I used a little bit of all purpose adhesive to hold my heart button in place before sewing it on. The drawback to this approach is that I had to sew through the glue, but it wasn't much of a challenge and ensured that I got the heart in the right location.
*Stitch together the two copies of the state using a blanket stitch, leaving a gap for stuffing.
*Stuff and sew closed.
*Slide some metallic thread through the stitching toward the top and tie the ends together to create a loop to use to hang the ornament from the tree.
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