Fabric Poinsettia Christmas Banner
Create a festive fabric poinsettia Christmas banner for the holiday season. With just a few supplies and my free printable template you can make simple fabric poinsettias!
Hello Crafty Friends! It’s the first day of my annual series “12 Days of Holiday Crafts” and I’m excited to share this festive DIY poinsettia banner! It is simple to make with only a few materials and the finished banner looks amazing!
Last year I figured out a fun way to make fabric flowers by gathering a strip of fabric. They were so quick to make I decided to try making poinsettia versions for the holidays. I created a template to help get the shape of the flower. You can download the template for free at the end of this post.
The poinsettia flowers turned out so cute! While I’m using my fabric flowers to decorate a banner, they can be used for lots of fun things like gift wrap, hair clips, on home decor signs, and so much more.
You will only need a few supplies to make this sweet banner including fabric, yellow beads to add to the center of each flower, ribbon and burlap pennants. You can make the burlap pennants yourself by cutting burlap fabric, or purchase a pre-made set as I did.
Fabric Poinsettia Banner
Supplies Needed
- Free poinsettia flower petal template – grab the free file by filling out the purple form at the end of this post.
- Red fabric
- Dark red fabric
- Green fabric
- Burlap banner pennants – 4.75″ x 7″ – make your own or purchase a pre-made set
- Needle and red and green thread
- Yellow pony beads – I used the yellow beads from this Beadery Pony Bead Kit from Joann Fabrics
- Fabric scissors and embroidery scissors
Making a Fabric Poinsettia
Step One: Start by cutting strips of red fabric. Each poinsettia flower is created by layering two fabric flowers on top of each other. The smaller one is made from red fabric and the larger one is made from dark red fabric.
- Cut the red fabric in strips that measure 2″ wide and 20″ long
- Cut the dark red fabric in strips that measure 1.75″ wide and 10.5″ long
Step Two: Print and cut out the free templates. Fold each strip of fabric in half and trace the template onto the wrong side of the fabric.
Step Three: Cut out the flowers using the pattern lines as a guide. As you cut, wiggle your scissors back and forth a bit to create wavy lines. Don’t worry about making each petal the same since real flower petals also have variations.
Step Four: Gather each fabric strip into a flower using a simple gathering stitch. Thread your needle with red thread and secure the thread to one end of the petal strip. Use a running stitch along the straight edge of the fabric. The strip of fabric will naturally start to curl into a circle a you pull the gathering thread and continue stitching. When your running stitch reaches the other end of the fabric, pull the thread (not super tight) to form a nice flat flower. Then secure the thread with a knot.
Repeat for the other strip of fabric. You will have one large flower and one slightly smaller flower.
Adding Leaves to the Pennants
Step Five: Cut five leaves from green fabric in varying sizes. I didn’t use a pattern for the leaves but made sure to wiggle my scissors as I cut triangles from the fabric. Stitch them to a green pennants so they will poke out from behind the poinsettias. I used a couple large stitches near the bottom of each leaf, just enough to hold them in place.
Forming the Poinsettia Banner
Step Six: Layer the fabric flowers over the green leaves and stitch them to the burlap pennant with a few stitches at the center. I didn’t go too crazy with my stitching to attach them. Three or four large stitches was enough to secure them into place and keep the flower full and dimensional.
Add 3-5 yellow beads to the center of each flower. The beads cover up your center stitches and also give each flower the classic poinsettia look.
The flowers and pennant are complete!! Repeat the process for each pennant of your banner. I created five pennants, which was enough to decorate our mantle.
Step Seven: Thread the pennants together with green satin ribbon. Once the pennants are connected it is time to hang up the banner and enjoy!
If you are making the flowers for something other than a pennant, you can stitch them together without a backing, or stitch them to a smaller backing.
I hope you enjoyed this festive poinsettia banner craft for Christmas! I hope you will continue to join me for the ninth year of my series “12 Days of Holiday Crafts“. I’ll be back tomorrow with day 2 and a new fun DIY holiday craft. In the meantime you can also visit my Christmas craft page for over 100 DIY holiday craft ideas!
Get the Free Fabric Poinsettia Pattern!
Fill out the purple form below with your first name and email address! The free file will be sent straight to your inbox! If you have already filled out the form below, don’t worry – you won’t be added to my list twice! This freebie is for personal use only. I hope you enjoy crafting something special. Please let me know if you have any questions :)
