Sew An Angel

Sew An Angel
Make: 1
Pattern: Download pattern here.

Materials:
1. Fabric – skin color or tea-dye fabric 6″ x 4″
2. Fabric – red or any festive color, 5″ x 12″
3. Fur or Felt – white color, 5″ x 8″
4. Lace, ric rac, & ribbon
5. Fur yarn or doll hair
6. Halo
7. Poly-fill for stuffing
8. Black fabric paint
9. White fabric paint
10. Blusher or pink fabric stamp pad
11. Plain white paper in letter size

Tools:
1. Sewing machine
2. Sewing needle and pins
3. Pencil
4. Erasable fabric marker
5. Iron
6. Fine tip paint brush
7. Flat tip brush
8. Printer
9. Scissors
10. Tweezers

Seam Allowance: 1/4″
Finished Dimension: 4 1/2″ (W) x 6″ (H)

Download the Angel pattern in pdf document and print it with your printer.
Feed the letter size paper into your printer and print the patten without setting any scale on the printing.
{the pdf download will either open in new tab or open a small window asking you to save it as file. If you can’t find the saved file in your computer, the default folder usually is in “/downloads”}
{If you can’t download the pdf pattern, probably you don’t have acrobat reader, download the latest version for free, here.}

Get ready all the materials require to sew an angel.
If you can’t find a ready made halo, you can always wind one yourself by using gold color aluminium wire.
Cut the paper pattern out after you have printed it out.

Fold the skin color fabric into half with right side facing each other.
Trace the head pattern on it.

Sew along the trace line except the bottom line. Cut out the head pattern from the fabric with 1/4″ seam allowance.
Clip curve on seam allowance.

Turn the fabric right side out by using a pair of tweezers since the opening is quite small.
Smooth out the seam.
Press with iron so that the fabric is straight and smooth.
Draw the facial on the head with fine tip brush. Practice on stash fabric before the actual work on the angel face.
Be it a big eye timid angel like mine, sleeping angel, caroling angel, smiling angel… give each angel a different expression to personalize their character.

Fill the eyeball with black and add some white sports to make the eyes “sparkle”.
Dab the cheeks with blusher or pink stamp pad ink.
Set it aside to let the paint dry.
Heat set the paint with warm iron or as per fabric paint instruction.

Cut the skirt and base pattern out from the fabric with 1/4″ seam allowance.

Add ric rac or lace by top-stitching them on the skirt. You may add more if the skirt fabric is plain.

Add lace trim on the skirt hem, fold the lace end in on the seam line. Top stitch to the folded hem.

Baste the lace to the top so it won’t get stitch-up when you sew the base at the bottom of the skirt.

Sew base to the bottom, be careful not to catch the lace on the sewing.
Turn the skirt right-side out from the top opening with a pair of tweezers.
Remove the baste stitch on the lace.

Turn the skirt right-side out from the top opening with a pair of tweezers.
Remove the baste stitch on the lace.

Stuff the head and skirt with poly-fill by using a pair of tweezers.

Insert the neck of the angel head into the skirt’s top opening.
Sew then together with slip stitch.

Roll 2 bunches of fur yarn with fingers to make hair for the angel.
The back part of the head is shorter, roll a smaller bunch.
The side part of the hair is longer, measure from side to side.

Sew the back bunch of hair to the back center-top of the angel head.

Sew the center of the side bunch of hair to the center top of the angel head.
Make a few stitches around the head to catch the hair securely.
Trim hair if needed.

Tie a ribbon bow on the neck of the angel, make a few stitches to secure it.

Fold the white fur into half. You can use felt if you can’t find white fur.
Trace the wing pattern in the wrong side of the fur.
Sew along the seam line except the opening. Allow a wider opening if using fur.

Cut wing out with 1/4″ seam allowance, clip curve.
Turn the wing right-side out from the opening by using tweezers.
Stitch-up the opening.

Sew to join both wings together at the middle.
Sew to attach the wings to the back of the angel.

Attach halo to the angel either by sewing it on or gluing it with permanent adhesive.
Sew a string loop to the head if you plan to hang the angel on your Christmas tree.

A complete angel for your Christmas…… May She brings love, joy and peace to you and your family.