Christmas Advent Calendar DIY Tutorial ♥ Fleece Fun

This Christmas Advent Calendar DIY Tutorial is sponsored by Cricut however the text and opinions are my own. This Christmas Advent Calendar DIY Tutorial is perfect to count down the days and stuff the stockings with good deeds, activities or a little chocolate! Change the title at the top to suit your family’s needs. I opted for a service centered theme. But simply change what it says on the canvas .

fleecefun Christmas Advent Calendar DIY with free template and tutorial

You have the choice of sewing the stockings with a blanket stitch or gluing them together. After sewing one together, I realized it would take ages to sew the other 23! So I decided to have the 24th stocking be a little different and sewn and the glued the rest. The truth is because the Cricut Maker cuts so beautifully you can just glue the stockings and they will look good.

YOU WILL NEED:

24″ by 30″ Plain Canvas
8 12″ by 18″ felt rectangles (wool blend needed for heat transfer vinyl – I used this collection here)
3 yards mini pom poms
Gold Heat Transfer Vinyl
Black HTV
Green Foil HTV
Red Foil HTV
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue (if gluing stockings)
Embroidery floss (if sewing stockings, but it’s a LOT of stockings)
White Mini Clothes Pins
The Font set I used in the tutorial is called Thriftshop available here.
Cricut Maker
Cricut EasyPress
Cricut Bright Pad
12 by 24 Fabric Mat
12 by 12 Standard Mat
Access to Cricut Design Space
Fleece Fun’s free Stocking SVG File (get it here)

Christmas Advent Calendar DIY Video Tutorial:

Christmas Advent Calendar DIY Tutorial:

Step 1 – Cut out the Stockings

Download the free SVG file and upload it into Design space. I’ve designed the file so if you want the toe, heel and cuff can be a different color and cut out separately. Since I mixed and matched the colors I cut them all out out one color and then mixed them. The file is laid out to make the most out of a piece of 12″ by 18″ felt. Simply select all the shapes and select attach before cutting.

Cutting out stocking pieces for fleecefun Advent Calendar DIY free template and tutorial

Cut out all of the stocking pieces.

Preparing stocking shapes with fleecefun free template for Advent Calendar

Set aside.

Cut out the vinyl for the numbers on the stockings (you can see my file here) and cut out the vinyl for the Canvas (again here is my file). Weed the Vinyl using your bright pad and set aside.

Step 2 – Assemble the Stockings for the Christmas Advent Calendar

While this step might seem short bear in mind that there are 24 of these to assemble. My advice is turn on a Christmas movie (I recommend the original Miracle on 34th Street with Maureen O’Hara and Natalie Wood) to make assembly a little more pleasant.

Assembling stockings for fleecefun Christmas Advent Calendar DIY free tutorial

First glue on the heel and the toe decorations. (Doing this will help with placing the numbers for iron on)

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Make sure the stockings are all pointing the same direction when you glue on the toes and heels!

This Christmas Advent Calendar DIY Tutorial comes with a free SVG file template and is so easy to make! I love how straight forward this sewing project is. I also love that it can be a no sew project too! Advent Calendar DIY Christmas.

Now using the proper setting on the EasyPress place the iron on where you want it.

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It is key that the felt you use has a high wool content or it will melt under the EasyPress or Iron.

Putting together stocking pieces for fleecefun Advent Calendar project

Now it’s time to assemble the stockings for the Advent Calendar.

Stitching stockings for DIY Christmas Advent Calendar with fleecefun template

To keep it as neat as possible stat by gluing either side at the top, stopping half way down,

Easy steps to assemble stockings for Advent Calendar fleecefun tutorial

and glue the stocking front and back together.

DIY Christmas Advent Calendar stocking assembly with fleecefun free template

Continue to glue the rest of the stocking half.

Now it’s time to add the top cuff. Add a bead of glue to the top of the stocking (be careful not to glue the top together!)

Glue the longer side to the top of the stocking.

Repeat with the back side and warp the cuff around the top.

Repeat these steps 23 more times with each stocking.

You can also blanket stitch the stockings together using the same process, just sewing the pieces together. I confess after doing this to one, I didn’t feel I had the stamina to do it to all of them!

Step 3 – Make the Canvas

To get an idea of the spacing I recommend that you try to layout all the elements first and mark in pencil where you want them to lay.

Preparing canvas base for fleecefun DIY Christmas Countdown Calendar free tutorial

Using the guide provided with the EasyPress to set the time and heat.

Setting up canvas for fleecefun Christmas Advent Calendar DIY

Iron on all of the elements that you want at the top of the canvas for the Christmas Advent Calendar DIY. Continue to add all of the heat transfer vinyl elements until your canvas is finished.