Ring in the season and welcome your holiday guests with our cheery Santa Claus door decoration. We tucked a sprig of holly in his cap for luck and used Turkey Loop Stitches to make his curly white beard.

Size: 10″w x 28-1/2 “h Supplies: Worsted weight yarn (refer to color key), one 10-5/8″ x 13-5/8″ sheet of plastic canvas, #16 tapestry needle, 2-1/2″ white pom-pom, three 6mm red beads, two 2″ I silk holly leaves, nylon line, 20″ of 2-1/4,”w grosgrain ribbon, three 35mm gold jingle bells, 2″ x 16″ piece of thin cardboard, sawtooth hanger, clear-drying craft glue, sewing needle, and sewing thread Stitches Used: French Knot, Gobelin Stitch, Overcast Stitch, Tent Stitch, and Turkey Loop Stitch.

Instructions: Follow chart and use required stitches to work Santa. Complete beard with white Turkey Loop Stitches as shown on chart. Refer to photo to sew beads and holly leaves to Santa. Glue pom-pom to unworked area.

For doorbell, use sewing needle and nylon line to sew grosgrain ribbon to wrong side of Santa between ‘s. Beginning 3″ below Santa, sew three jingle bells to ribbon at 3-1/2″ intervals; trim ribbon. To strengthen ribbon, glue cardboard to back of ribbon. Forhanger sew sawtooth hanger to wrong side of Santa.

SANTA (66×63 THREADS)

Happy Holiday to all pattern-making visitors, thanks for your support for 2009, I look forward to sharing my skills with the posting of more art and craft as well as sewing more for this blog in 2010, God’s Blessing to you all..

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