How to Make Felt Bows with your Cricut

Create beautiful handmade felt bows in just minutes! These bows are perfect for gift wrap, hair accessories, party decor and more. Here’s how to make felt bows with your Cricut!

Hello my friends, I’m back and ready to craft for the 25 Days of Cricut Christmas! We’re on Day 17 and today’s project is a fun one—felt bows!

I chose this project because there are SO many ways to incorporate felt bows into your holidays. Felt, for some reason, just FEELS like Christmas to me. It’s warm, it’s cozy, it feels handmade. It’s one of my favorite materials to craft with. So let’s make some bows!

If you’d like to get this series in an ebook format PLUS all of the SVGs needed to make all 25 projects check out the 25 Days of Cricut Christmas eBook Bundle!

To make these bows, I’ve used wool blend felt cut with my Cricut Maker’s rotary blade, but you can also cut felt with a Cricut Explore. These bows are perfect as gift toppers, hair accessories (great stocking stuffers!), and for holiday decor and party ideas. You can cut them any size—buy felt off the bolt and make some BIG bows!

Holiday Felt Pillow Supplies

• Cricut Maker with Rotary Blade or Cricut Explore with Fine Point Blade
• Felt (I prefer Benzie Felt)
• Green StandardGrip or purple StrongGrip mat
• Scissors (optional)
• Brayer (optional)
• Hot glue gun
• Felt Bow Template SVG

Grab the SVG for this Project

Felt Bow Instructions

Upload Bow Template File to Cricut Design Space

Let’s start by uploading the bow template file to Cricut Design Space (see Uploading SVG Files to Cricut Design Space if you need help).

From here, you can resize or recolor your bows for whatever project you’re making. When you’re ready to cut your felt, click Make It in the upper right. You’ll be taken to the Prepare Screen, where you’ll find all of your bow pieces on different Cricut mats.

If you are using a specific size of felt, you will want to change that in the dropdown on the left-hand side for each layer. I am using 9″ x 12″ felt, so I made sure to change my material size.

Cut Your Felt for Your Gnome Pillow

On the Make Screen, you’ll set your material. I am using wool blend felt, which is thicker than Cricut felt. To make sure it cuts all the way through, use the “Denim” setting.

Again, I am using my Cricut Maker for this project, so I have my Rotary Blade inserted into my machine. If you have a Cricut Explore, you can try the fine point blade. You may need to finish your cuts with scissors by hand if the felt doesn’t cut all the way through.

When your Cricut is done cutting, carefully peel up all of the extra felt from around your bow pieces. Then carefully lift the bow pieces off the mat, trying your best not to stretch them.

Assemble the Bows

The bows are all assembled in similar ways. You’ll fold the bow pieces to the center, attach to the ribbon piece, and wrap with the center piece. Let’s start with the easiest bow.

Start by folding the bow piece over from the outside to the center, securing with hot glue.

Repeat on the other side. The tabs will overlap in the middle.

Then flip it over so the tabs are on the back, and glue the bow piece to the ribbon piece.

Finally, wrap the center piece around the bow you’ve made and secure in the back with hot glue. Depending on the thickness of your felt and how tight you wrap it, you may need to trim a bit of this center piece so it doesn’t wrap all the way around to the front.

The other bows are assembled in the same way. The stacked bow just has two bow pieces, with the smaller bow piece stacked on top of the larger bow piece.

The split bow has four pieces to bring to the center and then is assembled in the same way as the others.

All four bows are so cute!

You can also change up the colors you are using and do a little mix and match!

These are also so great cut in glitter or metallic felt, and you can cut them in thin leather and suede as well!