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Lace & Organza Ornament Cover

Completed Organza Ornament Cover (Lace) design

Stunning freestanding lace and sheer organza come together to create a beautiful ornament cover for your Christmas tree! Project instructions demonstrate how to stitch and assemble the stunning design.

Supplies & Materials:

Project Needs & Notes:


  • 1/4 yard organza
  • Water-soluble stabilizer (like Vilene or Sulky Ultra Solvy)
  • Temporary spray adhesive (such as Gunold's KK100)
  • Hand sewing needle or glue
  • 1/8" ribbon

The design featured in this tutorial is:


Organza Ornament Cover (Lace)


Special Notes:


To make a completed poinsettia, you will need to sew two of the embroidery files.


This ornament cover fits an ornament that is 2 1/2" tall, and between 8" and 8 3/8" around. Measure the height to the top of the sphere, not including the cap and hanger. Measure the circumference at the widest part of the bulb.

Gather Materials:

When you download the lace ornament cover design, you will find a total of three files. One of the files is embroidery file and the other two are dieline files marked with the letters DL.


Dielines are used to cut the fabric to the right shape and size. Open the dieline files with an embroidery software, and print them.

Sheets of printed paper with a dashed pattern outline for an ornament cover are placed on a wooden surface. A folded piece of white fabric lies partially on top of the papers.

Label the paper dielines with "front" and "back".


Also label them with "left", "middle", and "right" to show their order on the ornament cover.


This will keep the pieces in order and prevent them from being mixed up while embroidering.

Two white paper pattern pieces with labeled sections for front left, front middle, front right, back left, back middle, and back right, placed on a wooden surface next to a black pen.

Spray the backside of the front dieline printout with temporary adhesive and smooth it on top of the fabric.

Piece of gray organza fabric with a white paper pattern pinned on top showing three connected cat-shaped panels labeled Front Left, Front Middle, and Front Right, placed on a wooden surface.

Cut out the shapes and repeat to make all the dieline pieces. In the end there should be six pieces.


After cutting, make sure to fold up one corner of the paper dieline to make it easier to remove later.

Orange-handled scissors on a wooden surface next to six small paper pattern pieces labeled Front Left, Front Middle, Front Right, Back Left, Back Middle, Back Right.

Lace organza designs have been specially digitized for water-soluble stabilizer. After the stabilizer is removed, beautiful lace and organza remains.

Three identical white lace applique pieces with intricate floral and leaf embroidery, shaped like stylized triangular ornaments, displayed on a textured turquoise background.

There are a couple of different kinds of water-soluble stabilizer.


One is clear and plastic, and that brand is Sulky Ultra Solvy. The other is soft and fibrous, called Vilene. Both will work very well. Vilene is used in this demonstration.


Use a size 11 or 75/11 sharp sewing needle. A sharp sewing needle has a smaller, finer point than an embroidery needle. That means it will make smaller holes in the stabilizer.

Two square sheets, one semi-transparent white fabric and one clear plastic, placed side by side on a wooden surface with horizontal grain lines.

Lace organza is seen from both sides, so wind a bobbin with the same thread that you're using in the needle.

Close-up of a sewing machine bobbin wound with white thread, placed on the bobbin holder inside the machine. The surface is white plastic.

Start Embroidering:

Hoop the stabilizer firmly. Make sure it is nice and tight with no wrinkles.

Embroidery hoop with white water-soluble stabilizer fabric secured inside, placed on a wooden surface, showing fabric edges outside hoop.

Load the embroidery file onto the machine (not the dieline), and embroider the design.


The first thing to embroider will be a dieline, or outline stitch. This marks the area on the stabilizer where we'll place the middle front fabric piece.

Close-up of a sewing machine needle stitching white thread on a piece of translucent organza fabric held taut in an embroidery hoop on a white background.

Spray the back of the middle front piece with temporary adhesive.


Remove the hoop from the machine, but do not unhoop the stabilizer.


Place the middle fabric piece right inside the sewn dieline (after removing the paper).

Close-up of a hand placing a small triangular white organza fabric piece onto gray fabric stretched in an embroidery hoop. Background shows part of another hoop.

Reattach the hoop to the machine and continue with the design.


A tack down will sew next. This binds the middle front fabric piece in place for the remainder of the design.

Close-up of a sewing machine needle and presser foot stitching on sheer, white organza fabric with a visible grid pattern underneath on a white surface.

Look at the color change sheet, and stop the machine before sewing "middle back piece tack down".


Remove the hoop from the machine, but do not unhoop the stabilizer.


Spray the backside of the middle back dieline with temporary adhesive, and place it on the back of the embroidery.

Embroidery hoop with white fabric stretched tight and a small white patch stitched in the center, placed on a wooden surface.

Place the hoop back on the machine, and embroider the middle back piece tack down.


Then carefully follow the color change sheet to embroider the other outlines, place the fabric pieces, and sew the tack downs.


Continue until you have stitched down all four of the other front and back pieces.

Close-up of an embroidery hoop holding beige fabric with three white, angular, mountain-like stitched shapes in a row, placed on a wooden surface.

Next, all of the inner elements will sew followed by the satin edges and lace borders.

Close-up of an embroidery machine stitching two white lace and organza bell shapes on a white fabric hooped in the machine. The fabric is semi-transparent.

After embroidering, cut the excess stabilizer away.

Orange-handled scissors rest on a dark wooden surface next to a piece of white organza fabric with three identical white lace embroidery motifs shaped like ornate, triangular teardrops.

The stabilizer's packaging should give instructions for removing the excess.


For Vilene, soak the organza pieces for a few moments.

Hand holding a clear lace and organza fabric piece with three white embroidered cone shapes above a silver spiral-patterned glass bowl on a wooden surface.

Repeat the previous steps to prepare and embroider a second lace organza piece.

Six white lace embroidery pieces shaped like decorative tags with intricate floral and geometric patterns, arranged on a dark wooden surface.

Usually lace organza pieces are allowed to air dry and then pressed before working with them.


For ornament covers, however, working with the pieces while they are damp will allow them to form around the shape of the bulb.


Take the two damp lace organza pieces, and line them up with the right sides together.

Three white lace and organza ornament covers with intricate floral and geometric embroidery, displayed on a dark wooden surface.

Hand sew one side of them together just at the widest point of the lace organza pieces.

Close-up of a hand holding white lace with a needle and thread passing through it, set against a dark blurred background.

Then repeat to hand sew the opposite side, making the two lace organza pieces into one loop.

Close-up of a hand holding two triangular white lace and organza pieces with intricate patterns and unfinished stitching, next to a sewing needle and thread on a wooden surface.

Turn the ornament cover right side out, and slip it onto the Christmas bulb.


Mold the lace organza to the round shape of the bulb.

Hand holding a small white lace ornament cover with an embroidered pattern, fitted over a metal ornament cap, on a wooden surface background.

Use a tapestry needle to weave an 1/8" ribbon through the two holes found on the top of each the six points of the ornament cover.

Hand holds green ornament partially covered with white lace and organza fabric, needle and thread in process of finishing edge at top opening.

Pull the ribbon tight around the cap or the bulb and tie a bow.

Hand holding a lace and organza ornament cover shaped like a small dome with scalloped edges and intricate leaf and floral embroidery in white thread.