Easy DIY Christmas Angel Ornaments

Creating these beautiful angel ornaments is great way to add a personal touch to your holiday decor or to give as handmade gifts.

Two handmade angel ornaments with fabric dresses, button decorations, yarn or felt hair, and tulle wings, displayed on a white background.

These pretty fabric angels are not only easy to sew, but they are also perfect keepsakes that friends and family will cherish for years to come.

The fabric angels also make great gift toppers, too. These are just one of our many angel sewing patterns that you will love!

While I chose Christmas fabric for DIY Christmas ornaments, you could make these any time of the year.

DIY Angel Ornament

The supplies are for one angel ornament.

Supplies

Two Coordinating Fabrics (around 6 inches in diameter)
Lightweight Interfacing (around 6 inches in diameter)
Felt (3 inch circle, plus 1 1/2 inch circle)
Cardboard or poster board (1 1/2 inch circle)
Ribbon (for halo, hanger and decorative bows)
Tulle (18 inches)
Yarn (optional)
Permanent Black Marker
Powder Blush
Hand sewing needle
Pinking shears (optional)
Hot glue gun
Embellishment for hands (button, flower, berries, etc.)

Directions

Cut circles out of two different fabrics and interfacing.

Three overlapping fabric circles in green, light pink, and red patterns are arranged on a white background.

Use a bowl to trace the circle. My bowl was 5 1/2 inches wide, but you could go a little bigger.

A white ceramic bowl placed upside down on green patterned fabric, next to a piece of white paper.

Attach the interfacing to the wrong side of one of the fabric circles (it does not matter which circle).

A white iron presses a pink fabric circle with small green dots on a striped ironing board cover.

Place the fabric circles right sides together. Stitch around the edge using a 1/4 inch seam allowance, leaving a 2 inch gap. Be sure to backstitch at the beginning and the end of your stitching.

A close-up of a person's hand holding a round piece of fabric with green and pink dots, being sewn with a sewing machine along the edge.

Reduce the bulk in your curved seams by either trimming with pinking shears or making small cuts all the way around, cutting close to the stitched seam but not through it. Do NOT trim or cut the fabric that is at the open seam.

A round piece of pink fabric with a textured pattern, cut with pinking shears. The shears and scraps of red and green fabric are beside it on a white background.

Turn the circle inside out and push out the curves. Fold under the open seams and press with an iron.

A hand holds a small bundle made of red, green, and pink patterned fabric; scissors and a piece of ribbon lie on a white surface below.

Top stitch around the circle using a 1/8 inch seam allowance and backstitch at the end of your stitching to secure.

A round red fabric coaster with a pattern of green holly leaves and white berries, set against a white background.

Fold the top of the circle over by about 1 1/2 – 2 inches to make a straight line. I like to hide any imperfections there might be underneath this fold, such as the backstitching on the stitched seam.

HELPFUL TIP: The fabric side you fold over will be the top of the angel’s dress as well as the main part of her dress.

A hand holds a small, sewn fabric pouch with a red holly-patterned flap and a green body decorated with small red and white details.

Now fold over the ends of that straight line to meet in the middle. You are making the angel’s dress sleeves. Secure with clips of pins.

A piece of red and green fabric with a holly pattern is folded and held in place by two red sewing clips on a white background.

Using a hand needle and knotted thread, secure the sleeves to the dress body by making a stitch or two underneath the top fold of the angel sleeve.

A hand sewing two layers of red and green fabric with a needle, with two red clips holding the fabric in place.

I made a couple straight stitches underneath the fold to secure the sleeves to the dress, then I made a couple stitches securing the angel sleeves to each other at the point where they meet.

Make a large loop with a long piece of ribbon and hot glue the ends to the neck of the dress. Alternatively you could stitch the ribbon to the dress.

A handmade fabric ornament with red and green patterned cloth, white stitching, and a white hanging loop, displayed on a white background.

Cut a 3-inch felt circle, and a 1 1/2 inch felt circle, as well. (You could alternatively use a thin piece of batting instead of a 1.5 inch felt circle.)

A clear glass is placed upside down on a beige paper napkin on a white surface.

Three round felt circles—one large cream, one smaller cream, and one medium brown—are arranged on a white background.

With a hand needle and thread, make basting stitches around the edge of the larger felt circle about 1/4 inch from the edge. Do not knot or finish off either end of the thread.

A round piece of light-colored felt with a needle and white thread partially stitched around its edge lies on a white background.

Place the 1 1/2 inch felt circle (or batting) in the middle of the larger felt circle. Then place the cardboard on top of that.

A hand holds two pieces of beige felt being sewn together with white thread; a sewing needle lies on a white surface nearby.

Now pull on the basting threads until they start to pucker and close around the smaller felt and cardboard circles. Pull until tightened around the smaller circles, then knot the threads to secure.

OPTIONAL: If you would like to add hair to your angel, cut several 6-inch strands of yarn. Using a smaller piece of yarn, tie a knot in the middle of the strands at the 3 inch mark. Hot glue the yarn knot to the top of the angel head.

Brown yarn strands tied together in a knot on a white background.

A hand holds a round beige felt piece with brown yarn strands glued to the top.

Wrap a small piece of ribbon around the top of the angel head (over the hair if you added hair) and hot glue the ribbon ends on the back of the head to secure. We like to play the halo ribbon at an angle.

Trim hair, if needed.

A round beige object with brown yarn strands attached as hair and a yellow band on top; several yarn strands are cut and placed below.

Using a black permanent marker, draw two circles as eyes. Then add two light circles of blush on either side of the face. (Tip: Lightly press your pinky onto powder blush then gently tap on a circle on the felt. Continue tapping until the color is what you would like.)

A hand holds a round doll face made of fabric with brown yarn hair, next to an open container of pink blush makeup.

Cut tulle into six 3-inch X 6-inch pieces. Lay pieces on top of each other and tie together in the middle with a piece of thread. Knot to secure and clip off the long thread ends.

A gold glittery mesh bow is gathered at the center with a piece of white thread on a white background.

Hot glue the tulle wings to the back of the angel dress.

A handmade Christmas ornament shaped like an angel with a green fabric body, red head, and gold mesh wings, hanging by a white ribbon.

Using a long piece of thin ribbon, fold the ribbon in half to make a double strand of ribbon. Then tie into a bow.

Hot glue the bow to the middle of the angel wings and trim off long ends.

Handmade angel ornament with gold mesh wings, a red bow, and a green fabric dress decorated with small red and green designs, set against a white background.

Hot glue the angel face to the front of the dress over the neck opening.

Handmade cloth angel ornament with a round fabric face, yarn hair, a gold headband, gold mesh wings, and a red and green dress with a holly pattern.

Add a decorative element where the wings meet, such as a button, charm or small flower.

Handmade fabric angel ornament with brown yarn hair, a green and red dress, a white button, and gold wings, set against a white background.

Helpful Tips I Learned While Making This Angel Ornament

Find items in your kitchen to trace to make circles. Think of bowls, glasses, cups, mugs or food containers.
The circles don’t have to be the exact measurements. Work with what you have and adjust as necessary.
Interfacing isn’t completely necessary but it does stiffen up the fabric a little bit so that the angel body doesn’t droop. If you are working with stiffer fabrics, you can skip the interfacing.
Test your permanent marker on a felt scrap to make sure the marker doesn’t bleed or run.