Santa Puppet

Materials:

• Two 9 inch x 10 inch pieces of terry towel
• 4 inch square fleecy interfacing
• Scraps of 3/8 inch ribbon
• 1/2 yard white rickrack
• White pompom
• Scraps of white yarn
• Green fabric
• White iron-on fabric
• Two 1/4 inch hearts
• Black and red permanent markers
• Rouge
• Glue
• Click on pattern right, and print out large pattern

Instructions:

1. Cut a pair of Santas (use the towel edge at bottom).
2. Cut beard from fleece (see broken lines in Fig. 1)
3. Cut 2 holly leaves 3/4 inch long.
4. From the iron-on fabric, cut the face 1/4 inch larger than the broken oval in fig. 1.
5. Santa front: Iron on face. Edge-stitch on fleece. Sew on ribbons (see photo) Draw face; rouge cheeks. With yarn, make bow, brows, and mustache.
6. Assembly: Seam Santa front to Santa back, right sides together and edges even, leaving bottom edge open. Turn right-side out.
7. Finishing: Sew pompom to top of Santa. Sew rickrack around the white fleece. Glue on leaves and hearts.