Snowman Appliqué Wall Hanging

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Create a beautiful snowman appliqué wall hanging using fabric, felt and simple embroidery! A fun and festive decoration for the holiday season! 

12 Days of Holiday Crafts by Crafting Cheerfully

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Hello Crafty Friends and welcome to Day 5 of my annual series 12 Days of Holiday Crafts! Today I’m sharing this festive Snowman Appliqué Wall Hanging! This was so much fun to make and I love how it turned out. I recently made a Halloween pumpkin wall hanging and wanted something to replace it with when spooky season ended.

This wall hanging is made with felt and scraps of fabric and uses simple hand sewing stitches like a running stitch and backstitch. Depending on the fabrics you use, this could be a Christmas decoration or a winter decoration. Check out my Penguin Embroidery Hoop as an example of this. I stitched it with different fabrics and it gave the project very different vibes.

This is a longer than normal tutorial, but I wanted to include lots of pictures! You can download the pattern for this Snowman Wall Hanging for free now through November 13th! After that the pattern will move to my Etsy shop.

A close up picture of the applique snowman's face showing embroidered eyes and mouth and an orange felt carrot nose.

How to Make a Fabric Snowman Wall Hanging

Supplies Needed

  • Pattern – Flash Freebie! Download the free pattern now through November 13th by filling out the purple form at the end of this post.
  • Black Felt – for the base of the design.
  • Background Fabric – I chose a red and gold swirl print
  • Fabric 
    • White fabric for the snow and snowman
    • Black fabric for the hat
  • Felt
    • Orange felt for the nose
    • Green felt for the wreath
    • White felt for the snowman and snow – to place behind the white fabric
  • Fusible Web Interfacing –Thermoweb HeatnBond Lite Sewable or Pellon Brand Wonder Under. Make sure to use sewable interfacing so you can stitch through it.
  • Embroidery Floss – gold, red, orange, black, and green
  • Display Options – 8” Magnetic wooden poster hanger or an 8.5” dowel and yarn
  • Sewing tools – fabric scissors, embroidery scissors, pencil, embroidery needle
  • Iron – I like to use my little Cricut Mini Heat Press and wool pressing mat.

Cutting the Fabric and Felt

Step One: Download and print the pattern pieces then tape them together to create the full pattern.

The pattern printed and cut out then taped together to form the base.

Use the pattern to cut out the black felt for the base of the wall hanging. I used a white pencil to trace around the pattern, then I cut it out on the traced line.

The pattern lays on top of black felt with a white pencil and ruler.

The black felt base is cut out and lays on a white table.

Step Two: Cut the background for the wall hanging from fabric using fusible interfacing. I used red and gold swirling fabric. First, lay a piece of fusible interfacing over the printed pattern, paper side up, and trace around the banner and the inner white area of the pattern. The interfacing is see-through so you will be able to see the lines of the pattern. I recommend using a ruler to help keep your lines straight. Cut the interfacing following your outer pencil lines.

Interfacing is laid on top of the pattern and traced with a pencil.

Next, iron the interfacing to the wrong side of your background fabric. Then cut out the fabric following your inner traced pencil lines.

Fusible interfacing is applied to the back of the red fabric with an iron.

Step Three: Cut out the other pattern pieces using fusible interfacing. Lay the fusible interfacing over the pattern, paper side up, and trace the the pieces including the snowman’s body, arms, nose, wreath and hat. There is also a hat band, but you can choose to skip this piece and use ribbon instead.

Fusible interfacing is laid over the pattern and the shapes are traced.

Bubble cut around each traced piece, leaving about ¼” around each one. 

The fusible interfacing shapes are cut out with borders around each.

Step Four: Iron each shape to the wrong side of the fabric or felt you are using. I ironed my snowman body and arms to white fabric, the snowman nose to orange felt, the hat to black corduroy and the wreath to green wool felt. 

The pieces of interfacing for the snowman are being ironed to the back of the white fabric.

The wreath interfacing is ironed to the green felt.

Shapes are ironed to the back of the fabric pieces.

Next, cut each shape out along the traced lines. 

The shapes of fabric are cut out and laying on a table.

Step Five: Add white felt to the back of the snowman and snow. I chose to do this since my white fabric was a bit see through and the red and gold print that would be under them was pretty bold. If you are using thicker white fabric, or your background fabric is lighter, you may be able to skip this step! 

I ironed each of my snow pieces to white felt and then cut them out. 

The snowman pieces are ironed to white felt.

Before ironing the snow piece to white felt, you can trace the “Let it Snow” sentiment on it t using pencil and either a light box or by placing it in front of a window.

The phrase, let it snow, is traced onto the piece of white fabric using a window.

Adding Ribbon

Step Six: Add ribbon to the snowman’s neck and hat using a bit of glue or tape on the back to hold them in place. I also created a gold bow to match the ribbon I used on my snowman’s neck so I could attach it at the end when everything is done.

Ribbon is wrapped around the snowman's neck and the top hat.

Embroidery

Step Seven: Embroider the snowman’s face, wreath and the sentiment “Let it Snow” using embroidery floss and simple hand sewing stitches.

I used black embroidery floss and a small backstitch for the snowman’s eyes and mouth. I ironed the orange felt nose in place then added a small running stitch with orange embroidery floss.

The snowman's face and orange carrot nose are added to the snowman.

For the “Let it Snow” sentiment at the bottom of the wall hanging, I used red embroidery floss and a small backstitch.

The snow is embroidered with red embroidery floss.

The phrase, let it snow, is embroidered on a piece of white fabric.

Finally, for the wreath I used green embroidery floss to add a circle around the inner hole of the wreath with a small running stitch. I added berries to the wreath using red embroidery floss and made a french knot in each curved area of the wreath. 

Felt wreath with red french knots.

Assemble the Banner Pieces

Step Eight: It’s time to iron everything together! You should have 9 pieces total; 1 black felt base, 1 red and gold fabric background, 1 snow embroidery with the words Let it Snow, 1 snowman body, 2 snowman arms, 1 carrot nose, 1 hat and 1 wreath. Start by ironing the background fabric to the black felt base.

Red and gold fabric is ironed on top of the black felt piece.

Next, line up with the snow with the bottom of the background fabric. Use embroidery floss to stitch around all four edges. I did choose to skip the area where I knew the snowman would be covering it up. 

The white snow with the words Let it Snow have been added to the banner and stitched around with gold floss.

Next, pin the snowman in place and stitch around it using the embroidery floss and a small running stitch. 

The snowman is ironed to the top of the fabric pennant.

Christmas wall hanging featuring an appliqué snowman holding a great wreath and the embroidered phrase, Let It Snow.

When you get to the arms, iron the wreath to the front of the snowman and place the arms so they overlap the wreath. Stitch around the arms, catching the side edges of the wreath. 

Gold embroidery floss is used to attach the snowman to the banner.

Below you can see the tricky part where the corner of the arms attach.

One of snowman's arms is attached with gold embroidery floss and it overlaps the green felt wreath.

Finally, iron the snowman hat to the wall hanging and again stitch around the edges to finish it.

The top hat is attached to the top of the snowman's head with embroidery floss.

You can also stitch around the edges of the background fabric. I did this on my Halloween Wall Hanging, but opted to not do it on my snowman wall hanging. I think it would look nice either way! Use glue to add the bow to the front of the snowman!

A close up picture of the applique snowman's face showing embroidered eyes and mouth and an orange felt carrot nose.

Displaying the Wall Hanging

Step Nine: The final step is to add a way to hang the pennant once finished. You can do this a couple different ways including the easiest option – leaving it unfinished and using magnetic hangers that just click into place! The pennant is light enough that these work great and look really nice.

Wood easel at the top of the snowman pennant.

Another option is to fold over the top 3/4″ of the pennant and either machine sew or hand sew this to make a casing for a wooden dowel. Once the casing is sewn, you can slide a wooden dowel into the top and add a yarn hanging loop! 

The top of the banner is folded over and hand stitched down.

The top of the pennant is finished with a wooden rod and yarn.

The wall hanging is finished and ready to be displayed for the holiday season! 

Snowman Applique wall hanging, with Let it Snow, embroidered.

This was a longer tutorial but I wanted to show you as many pictures as possible so you have success if you make your own Snowman Applique wall hanging! I’ll be back tomorrow for day six of my series, 12 Days of Holiday Crafts. In the meantime, be sure to check out my other holiday sewing projects for crafty ideas!

Happy Crafting! -Kim

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