You will need:

Materials:

• Felt
• Stranded embroidery thread to match
• A variety of decorative trimmings - such as pearl buttons, glass beads, flat back gems and adhesive, glass drops (ours came from an old chandelier)
• Soft toy filling
• 2m of 15mm wide coordinating polyester satin ribbon
• 50cm of 5mm wide polyester satin ribbon to match
• Sewing thread to match the ribbon

Equipment:

• Templates
• Scissors
• Dressmakers pins
• Needles

To make

1. Cut out the templates. From the felt, cut 4 pairs of large stars and 2 pairs of small stars.
2. Use your imagination to decorate the front piece of each pair – using your trimmings and embroidery thread, leaving a border at the edge for sewing and omitting the glass drops.
3. With wrong sides facing use 8 strands of embroidery thread, in a different shade to the felt. Sew each pair together, taking 5mm running stitches, sewing 5mm in from the edge and leaving a long thread and a gap around 1 inner point, to allow for stuffing the star.
4. Stuff the stars, pushing the filling into the points, and complete the sewing.
5. Cut the narrow ribbon into varying lengths – we cut lengths of 3 x 4cm, 1 x 6cm, 1 x 8cm and 1 x 11cm.
   
   Turn the ends under. Sew 1 end to the back of 1 point on each star and the other end to the wrong side of the wide ribbon. Space the stars so they hang individually in the central area of the ribbon.
6. Stitch crystal drops to the lowest point on a couple of the stars.