I live in Hungary. In our corner of the world Santa is called St. Nicolaus (Mikulás in Hungarian) and he comes on the night of 5 December and the children get their small gifts the next morning. Kids get sweets in a bag if they were good, and a golden colored birch switch if not.
To honour this day, I made a small wire framed Santa and he brought me some nice threads (and let me hide the ugly pins that keep him upright behind those nice threads).
Recently a friend of mine borrowed me Salley Mavor’s new book Felt Wee Folk: New Adventures. The book contains detailed descriptions of how to make many of her beautiful dolls. I used one of those patterns and modified a bit to look more like Santa. Santa is about 14 cm (~5.5 in) tall including his hat and 10.5 cm (~4 in) without it.
I used chenille stems (pipe cleaners) for the body and wool felt for the coat, hat and beard. The head is a 20 mm wooden bead.
Just started wrapping one leg:
Legs are ready:
Here is Mr Skinny Legs Santa without his coat on.
Pattern for coat, hat and beard.
Beard is almost ready:
I’m far from the perfection Salley is creating her artwork, but I really enjoyed making this doll. I plan to make some other similar projects in the future. You can enjoy Salley’s creatures at her page.
I hope you were good and got something nice from St. Nicolaus!
Cheers,
He's adorable! I could see several St Nicolaus figures sitting in a tree - thank you for sharing him on Midweek Makers!
ReplyDeleteGood idea, thanks, Susan!
DeleteWhat a delight your St. Nicholas is. Thank you for sharing how you constructed him.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteYou make this look so simple! Thanks for sharing on the Pleasures of the NW's DIY party! Would love to have you comment at the party!
ReplyDeleteWe had the St. Nicholas tradition when our kids were younger too... it was so fun. They would get a few small gifts in their boots if they were good, and a lump of coal if they were bad. They never got coal of course!
ReplyDeleteThis is an adorable decoration that you made... thanks for linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching and sharing it with us!
Hi Kathy! Never heart of the lump of coal tradition, pretty interesting. Thanks for visiting!
ReplyDeleteThat is so cute!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea. I hope you got sweets and not a birch switch LOL Thanks for linking up with TGIFF hosted @ Anja Quilts.
ReplyDeleteLove your lovely Santa it will be fantastic with lots of then on a Christmas tree. I'm choosing this beauty as one of my feature this coming Sunday at http://www.fabifabu.com/2016/12/11/inspiration-galore-project-party-16/. Hope to see you again, and thanks for sharing!
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