Packed Snow Sack

-Notes:

1. Read pattern through before starting.

2. Sewing Terms: RST – right sides together, RSO - right side(s) out
3. Use ¼” seams unless otherwise directed.
4. These directions are for the packed snowman sack. However, if you want to make a single snowman in a
smaller sack, complete steps 17 through 22 at the end of the pattern.
5. The carrot nose/hats/ear muffs are made with cotton batting and then are painted. If you don’t want to
paint you can make them out of colored felt instead.
6. Thank you for purchasing my pattern!
7. Happy Sewing and Happy Heart Hugs!

Making a Snowman - The directions are for one snowman but make 4 snowmen to pack the sack.
Complete the snowman body pattern by taping the top and bottom together matching A’s and B’s.

1. Sewing the Body – Use a pencil and trace the snowman body pattern onto double Warm & Natural
cotton batting. I like the textured side of the cotton batting to be the outside of the finished snowman.
The snowman body is long so it will fill out the sack when placed inside. Machine stitch the body on the
traced line leaving the bottom open. Cut body out ¼” away from stitching. Turn body RSO. You are
going to stuff the snowman body with polyfil, but to make this a little easier to do, fold the bottom half of
the body up onto the body itself (making a cuff). Stuff the top of the body, which will become the head,
firmly with polyfil – use the 12” wood ruler to help you push the polyfil up into place – continue to stuff
the body with polyfil, folding the cuff back down into place, stuffing less firmly as you get down to the
bottom. Use off-white crochet thread and take a running stich around the bottom edge of the body – pull
thread to gather bottom of body closed, tack thread to secure the gathering and then cut off excess.
2. Creating the Snowman’s Head – Take one snowman and using a measuring tape, measure 4” down from
the top seam of the snowman’s body and mark with a pin – you are going to stitch horizontally around
the top body to create a head and neck for the snowman at the same time. Double thread a long piece of
off-white crochet thread in needle and knot end. Take a running stitch horizontally around the top of the
snowman’s body 4” down (remove pin) – pull thread to gather top body and make a neck (don’t gather
too tightly and make too many wrinkles) – wrap thread around gathering 2 times to hold gathering, then
tack thread to secure the gather, then cut excess thread off. Now the snowman has a nice head. Complete
the heads for the other 3 snowmen.
3. Making a Carrot Nose – The directions to make the carrot nose is for one nose, but make 4 noses all
together. Trace the carrot nose pattern onto doubled cotton batting, Machine stitch around whole carrot
on the traced line. Cut carrot out 1/8” away from stitching. Cut a (horizontal) slit in one layer of batting
in the carrot – turn carrot RSO through cut slit. Use the hemostats and stuff the carrot with tiny wads of
polyfil. Whip stitch slit opening closed. Paint carrot terracotta – let paint dry.
4. The Snowman’s Face – Refer to the photo of the snowmen to decide which snowman’s face you will work
on first. Notice the position of the nose and eyes and the shape of the mouth – also consider how he needs
to be decorated – with a hat or ear muffs. Leave enough space at the top of the snowman’s head for a hat
(this is mainly for the red pompom hat) and pin the carrot nose onto the snowman’s face. Poke 2 pins
into the snowman’s head where the eyes will go. Double thread (all-purpose) black thread in needle and
knot end. Poke needle into snowman’s head where the hat (or ear muffs) will go and come out at one pin
marking eye placement (remove pin). Stitch on a black bead eye – exit needle over to other pin (marking
other eye) and stitch on another black bead (remove pin) – stitch back and forth several times to make
sure bead eyes are secure to face – exit needle down to wide end of nose exiting out behind nose - stitch

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nose to face keeping the stitching (as best you can) behind the nose so it doesn’t show, then tack thread
(remove pins) – exit needle up to one bead eye, stitch through bead (poke needle into head) and exit
needle out top (or side) of head (where thread knot is), and tack and cut thread. Thread a long piece of
black crochet thread in 3” needle and knot end. Poke the needle into the snowman’s head again (where
hat or ear muffs will go) and keeping in mind where you want eyebrows, come out where you will stitch
one – stitch one eyebrow over one bead eye – exit needle over to top of other eye and stitch that eyebrow –
exit needle down to one end of mouth – back stitch a curved, straight or “V” shaped mouth – exit needle
out side of neck, tack and cut thread off (it will be covered with the scarf). Complete the faces on the
other 3 snowmen.
5. The Snowman’s Scarf – To make a scarf for one snowman, cut a 1 ¼” X 22” strip of plaid or check
fabric (flannel fabric works well). Wet scarf with water and crumple it up into a ball – open scarf up
leaving in the wrinkles – oven dry scarf to set the wrinkles. When scarf is dry, pull off stray threads to
fray side /ends of scarf. Tie scarf (or make a bow with the fabric) around the snowman’s neck. Make all
the snowmen scarves or a bow.

Making Hats and Ear Muffs for the Snowmen - Note: I have made the hats/ear muffs out of the cotton
batting and then painted them. If you didn’t want to paint hats/muffs you can make them out of
colored felt. The pompom hat would have a red (not off-white) pompom at the top. Make and decorate
the snowmen with hats or the ear muffs.

6. The Snowman’s Black Top Hat – There are 2 black top hats - one is thin and the other is wide – the
patterns will be different, but the directions are exactly the same. Trace the hat brim pattern onto
doubled cotton batting. Machine stitch around entire brim on the traced line. Cut brim out 1/8” away
from stitching. Cut a (horizontal) slit in one layer of batting on the brim. Turn brim RSO through cut
slit. Machine stitch around the outer edge of the brim (1/8” in) to top stitch, so the brim won’t be too
puffy. Trace the hat top pattern onto a single layer of batting – cut hat top out on the traced lines. Fold
hat top in half RST, matching the sides, and then machine stitch open sides with a ¼” seam – re-position
seam to center back – machine stitch across top of hat with a ¼” seam. Turn hat top RSO. Stuff hat top
with polyfil. Gather stitch the bottom of the hat top to close it up. Center, press and pin hat top (seam to
back) down onto middle of brim (slit side of brim is down) – hand stitch top of hat to brim - remove pins.
Paint hat black – let dry. Hand stitch hat to top of snowman’s head using black thread. Cut a strip of
plaid fabric about 1 ½” wide and glue it around the hat top (ends to back) to make a hat band.
7. Red Pompom Hat - Cut the pompom hat pattern out of a single layer of cotton batting. Place the batting
on plastic wrap (or foil) as you are going to paint. Use a pencil and lightly draw a 1 ¼” border across the
top of the batting. Paint the area on the batting below the pencil line with red paint (diagram 1 on
pattern template page 3) – let paint dry. Turn the batting over to other side. Use a pencil and draw a 1”
border across the bottom of the batting – paint the border (under the line) with red paint (diagram 2).
Turn the pompom hat over to the right side – cut slits across the top of the hat almost down to the
painted area, but leave a little unpainted batting to stitch across (diagram 3). With RST, match sides of
hat and stitch down open sides with a ¼” seam (diagram 4). Turn hat RSO. Use doubled off-white
crochet thread and stitch around the hat (right below cut slits - diagram 5) - pull on thread to tightly
gather cut slits and to make a pompom – wrap thread around gathering 2 times to hold gathering
together, then tack thread to secure gathering (diagram 6) – cut off excess thread. Turn the bottom edge
of the hat up ½” to make a cuff – the cuff will be red because you painted the bottom back of the hat
(diagram 7). Pin pompom hat at an angle onto snowman’s head. Fold hat cuff down. Use red thread and
stitch hat to head along the fold crease. Fold cuff back up into place hiding the stitching.

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8. The Ear Muffs – Paint the green cloth covered wire with black paint – let paint dry. Coil the wire around
a round smooth pencil leaving 1” straight lengths at each end – pull curled wire off pencil - you have
made the wire for the ear muffs. Trace 2 ear muff patterns onto cotton batting. Cut ear muffs out on
traced lines. Take one ear muff: use off-white thread and take a running stitch around outer edge, in
about 1/8” – pull on thread a little to “cup” the ear muff. Place a little wad of polyfil into “cupped” ear
muff – pull on thread to gather ear muff closed, tack and cut thread. Repeat process with other ear muff.
Paint ear muffs green – let paint dry. Bend the curled black wire into an upside down “U” shape – stitch
the one-inch straight ends of the wire to the inside of the ear muffs (or hot glue together). Pin ear muffs
onto snowman’s head – notice that I have positioned one ear muff higher than the other – use green
thread and stitch ear muffs to snowman’s head.

9. The snowmen are distressed to make them nice and prim looking and this is easily done using cinnamon!
Distressing the Snowmen – You are going to “brush” cinnamon onto the snowmen to distress them. Use
a large flat brush for this step. Shake (or pour) a mound of cinnamon onto a paper dish. Take the flat
brush and dip it into the cinnamon, actually picking up cinnamon on the end of the brush – brush
cinnamon onto the snowmen’s bodies above and below the tied scarves (just around the snowmen’s
necks). You will have to keep picking up cinnamon on the brush as you work. Brush cinnamon onto
snowmen under their hats, over their bead eyes (use the corner of the flat brush) and under their noses.

Time to Make the Sack for the Snowmen!

10. Making the Sack: You are going to use denim fabric for the sack. If the denim has a finished edge (for
the top 24” side) you will cut it 11” x 24”. If the denim does not have a finished edge along one 24” side,
cut the denim 12” x 24” so you can fold the top down 1” and have a finished edge. Use a black Sharpie
(permanent) marker and draw an 11” X 24” rectangle (or 12” x 24” rectangle) onto the back of the
denim fabric – a finished edge should be across the top or if there is no finished edge, fold the top edge
down 1” onto the wrong or back side of the denim and pin in place for now. Review diagrams on pattern
template page 3. Turn the denim over so the right side of the denim is facing up – this is the side you are
going to stencil on. The “Let It Snow” stencil that I used was purchased on etsy from
HomesteadStencilComp. It is primitive stencil – Item 5984C with “Let It Snow” 3 x across (so I only used
1/3 of the stencil). Note: you can cut the first “Let It Snow” off the stencil so it will be easier to work with.
Review the stencil placement diagram on pattern template page 3. You are going to stencil on the front
of the denim fabric before you sew the sack shape. Refer to the diagram to see where on the denim you
will be stenciling. The “Let It Snow” stencil is 3 ½” x 7”. You will place the stencil onto the middle area
of the denim about 4” down from the top edge. The measurements might look a little complicated but
don’t worry, just try to get it centered most of all - it doesn’t really matter if your stenciling is a little
higher or lower than mine.
11. How to Stencil: You will need vintage white acrylic paint, a paper dish, a paper towel and a ¾” foam
stippler (dabber) and the stencil. Place the “Let It Snow” stencil onto the denim – you can use masking
take to tape the stencil edges down if you’ve never stenciled before – it will help keep the stencil from
moving. Squeeze a puddle of vintage white paint on the paper dish. Have the dry paper towel next to the
dish so you can remove some of the paint (after dabbing into the paint), if needed. Use your fingers on
one hand to hold the part of the stencil you’ll be using first (Let) – use the other hand to hold the stippler.
Dip the stippler into the vintage white paint – dab it on the paper dish to distribute the paint evenly – dab
once on dry paper towel to make sure you don’t have too much paint. While holding the stencil part with
one hand, dab the open letters with the white paint (always try to keep stencil flat) – you don’t want solid
white paint – enough paint to make and see the letters – as you work across the letters to stencil them,
walk your (holding) fingers across as you go so the stencil doesn’t move – continue on to stencil the “It”
and then the “Snow” - the solidness of the paint can vary – it’s OK. Let the paint dry before you remove
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the stencil. Actually, the less proficient you are at stenciling, the better it will look. You don’t want
perfect solid letters. Note: If you happen to get a little white paint onto the denim (beyond the lettering
where it shouldn’t be) you can put a snow dot there! After the letters are dry and the stencil is removed,
you are going to make snow dots onto the middle area of the denim. Use the handle end of the flat brush
or a piece of wood dowel to make the snow dots. Dip the handle end of the brush (or the dowel) into some
vintage white paint and then make a dot onto the denim - you can get 2 decent dots from one dipping –
make all the snow dots and really, they don’t have to be perfect!
12. Sewing the Sack: With RST, match the 11” sides of the sack (if the top edge is folded, keep it folded).
Machine stitch sides together with a ½” seam. Position the seam so it is centered to the back – open seam
up so it is flat at the bottom (for less bulk). Machine stitch across bottom of sack closing it up with a ½”
seam. Turn sack RSO – the stenciling will be centered on the front of the sack. You will make a hanger
for the sack after the snowmen are placed into it. Remove any pins.

13. Now that the sack is done, it’s time to pack the sack with the snowmen! Assembling the Pack of
Snowmen in the Sack – Put a little polyfil down into the middle of the sack – this will make the 2 middle
snowmen a little higher in the sack. Insert snowmen, one by one down into the sack – if all looks good,
pin the top of the sack edge to each snowman’s body. Turn sack over and repeat process. Keeping the
sack and snowmen turned to the back, use black crochet thread and stitch across the bodies with black
crochet thread – remove pins. Turn sack and snowmen to the right side. Pin buttons or bells to the front
of the snowmen’s bodies, placing the last button/bell at the sack edge. Stitch the button/bell at the sack
edge to the sack, also catching the snowmen’s bodies to keep them in place (removing pins as you do so).
Stitch the other buttons/bells to snowmen’s bodies. Arrange snowmen’s scarves so you can see all the
buttons/bells and then keep scarves in place with a few dots of white glue.
Making Arms for the Outer Snowmen
14. The Snowmen’s Arms – The 2 snowmen at the sides of the sack have 2 arms each – one arm is up and
out, the other arm is down and flat against the front side. The 2 middle snowmen have no arms. For the
outer snowman on the right side of the sack: use the manicure scissors and cut a small slit into his right
side where his upward arm will go. For the snowman positioned at the left of the sack: use the manicure
scissors and cut a small slit on his left side where the upward arm will go. Use a pencil and poke it down
into the cut slits to make a “way” for the stick arms – the “way” should angle downward so the arms will
go upward. Dip ends of stick arms into white glue and insert them (through slits, into polyfil) down into
the snowmen’s bodies. The other 2 arms will face down on the other sides of these snowmen – dip ends of
those stick arms into white glue and insert them under the scarves so they are positioned down and along
the sides of the snowmen (see photo for placement).
Making the Hanger for the Sack of Snowmen
15. Making the Hanger – The hanger will go on the back of the snowmen pack. You will need an 11” stick
(or wood dowel) and a 30” piece of thick jute. Tie the jute to the ends of the stick (from ends in about
1 ½”) – you will use 20” of the jute for the actual hanger – use 5” on each side to tie the jute to the stick.
Place stick across the back of the 4 snowmen about 1 ½” up from the sack edge. Use off-white crochet
thread and stitch ends of stick to outer snowmen. Stitch stick to middle snowmen. Pull jute up and pin
to middle snowmen’s heads to keep jute upward – stitch jute to back of snowmen’s heads) - remove all
pins). The hanger is done.

16. Final Touch – Pat the “Let It Snow” sack with cinnamon here and there to distress it. Pat extra
cinnamon onto snowmen’s hats and scarves. Brush cinnamon around the buttons/bells on the snowmen’s
bodies.
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Making One Snowman in a Sack
17. The snowman I made in the small sack has a hat made out of a red/white striped sock. If you want to
make this snowman, complete the directions to make a snowman (steps 1 through 5 – in step 4 however,
don’t complete his eyebrows until the hat is sewn onto his head). The sock hat for the snowman is a red &
white striped sock that is kind of long, about 10”. I didn’t do any sewing on it (I used the whole sock). To
make the sock hat: pin the top opening of the sock to the top of the snowman’s head – use green thread (or
the same color thread as your sock) and stitch the sock edge to the snowman’s head with tiny stitches –
bring the sock length over to one side of the snowman’s head folding it in half lengthwise (so it appears
thinner) and then stitch a rusty bell to the end – when the arms are attached to the snowman, you can wrap
the hat length around one arm. Now you can stitch the snowman’s eyebrows with the ends going up onto
the sock edge.
18. Making the Denim Sack for One Snowman – The finished denim sack needs to measure 11” (down) and 12”
(across) – if you want to fold down the top edge, either to the front or back, then cut the denim 12” (down)
x 12” (across) – fold top edge down to front or back and pin in place. Refer to the diagram on pattern
template page 5 for cutting the denim and also to see where to stencil on the denim fabric. Review step
“How to Stencil” so you get a good idea of what to do but pay attention to the directions on pattern
template page 5 because the lettering is not straight across on the smaller sack. I have given you a few tips
on the same page when you do the stenciling (mainly about taping off letters) so paint doesn’t get into
areas it shouldn’t – these tips are for using the whole stencil (with the 3 “Let It Snows” on it). After the “Let
It Snow” is stenciled onto the sack, make “snow dots” onto the middle area of the denim around the “Let It”
and “Snow”.
19. Sewing the Sack: With RST, match the 11” sides of the sack (if the top edge is folded, keep it folded).
Machine stitch sides together with a ½” seam. Position the seam so it is centered to the back – open seam
up so it is flat at the bottom (for less bulk). Machine stitch across bottom of sack closing it up with a ½”
seam. Turn sack RSO – the stenciling will be centered on the front of the sack. You will make a hanger for
the sack after the snowman is placed into it.
20. Assembling the Snowman in the Sack – Pack a little polyfil along the inside sides of the sack to help fill it out
(leaving the middle area to be filled out by the snowman’s body). Insert snowman down into the middle of
the sack. Prepare the snowman for 2 upward arms (cutting slits into each side of his body) and then insert
the stick arms into the body (review step 14). Cut a 5/8” x 12” strip of denim to make straps for the
snowman. Pin one end of the denim strip to the bottom front of the sack – bring strip up around one arm,
around the back of his neck, and down over the other arm to the front again and pin in place on the sack.
Use off-white crochet thread and stitch off-white buttons to ends of denim straps securing buttons to straps
and straps to top of sack (remove pins). You will have a little open sack space on each side of the snowman
– you can take a tack stitch on both sides of the sack to hold front/back sack together or insert a little pine
pick down into the sack on each side of the snowman. Stitch 3 rusty bells down the front of the snowman,
stitching the last bell to both the sack and snowman to secure the front of the sack to the snowman. Now
you can wrap the hat length around one arm of the snowman and let the rest of it hang down.
21. Making a Hanger – Cut a 24” piece of thick jute and knot each end. Stitch the knots to the top sides of the
sack. Pull jute hanger upward and stitch the jute to the snowman’s head/hat using off-white crochet thread.
Review the step “Distressing the Snowman” and do so.
22. Final Touch – Pat the “Let It Snow” sack with cinnamon here and there to distress it. Pat extra
cinnamon onto snowmen’s hat and scarf. Brush cinnamon around the rusty bells on the snowmen’s body.

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