CHRISTMAS TREE QUILT BLOCKS PDF

Pull the fabric from the first cut away, and make a second diagonal cut the other direction to get your tree shape. Place a quilting ruler at an angle and make a diagonal cut. Stack your two 8 ½″ x 8 ½″ contrasting squares on top of each other. I recommend choosing two fabrics with a lot of contrast (color and scale) so that your trees will really pop. The fabric requirements for each pair of Christmas tree quilt blocks are: This eliminates fabric waste and makes the blocks come together lickety-split. You are going cut and piece the blocks in pairs. These blocks will end up about 7″ x 9″ finished. Okay, so here’s the cutting and piecing instructions for these larger version of my Holiday Patchwork Forest – or modern Christmas tree blocks. (It doesn’t include fabric measurements, but I do walk you through the method for making these blocks.)

If you prefer watching a video, scroll down to the the video version of this tutorial. Those are some basic guidelines that can make any quilt visually interesting – especially when you’re going scrappy. You don’t need to use any of this – I thought I’d just throw it out there for the heck of it, since people often ask me about choosing fabric for a quilt. Using solids as well can also provide good contrast to the prints. Throwing in some big prints – like the polkadots, stripes, pearl bracelets, etc – can give the quilt a lot of visual texture. I tend to have a lot of medium and small-scale prints – which I love, but can look more jumbled if everything is the same scale. Since I am using a wide variety of prints and I want it to have a scrappy look, I’m also trying to incorporate big scale prints where I can – especially because these are bigger blocks and they have a lot of space to show off prints. I even threw in a few reddish-pinks to again, give some depth and interest.įinally, keep scale in mind too. Instead I focused on red fabrics that also have a lot of white in them, to keep the reds looking lighter. I went in planning to use reds in this Christmas tree block quilt too, but ended up weeding out the really dark reds. So I didn’t use any lime greens, but I still threw in some warmer, mossy greens too, because the variety of shades gives the quilt some interest. I personally chose to emphasize Kelly and darker greens because I wanted this to have the feel of an evergreen forest. For this quilt I raided my greens, reds, and white backgrounds with red or green prints. I’ve finally reached the point where it feels so good to just USE those favorites. I love scrappy and using up favorite fabrics that I’ve been hoarding collecting for the past few years. This quilt is a fun exercise in choosing a color palette, using scraps (especially the smaller version), but you can’t go wrong as you make it your own. They each have a different look and I really like them both. It’s fun to see the pictures of the two versions above. Just pull your greens and reds together for a very Christmas-y look.Ī few thoughts on choosing fabrics for your own quilt. And they don’t necessarily need to be Christmas fabrics. This project is a great one for busting through a lot of fabric stash. Here is the pile of fabric that has been sitting in my sewing room for the past few weeks. And I’m not going to like, I am LOVING where this Christmas tree quilt is going! So today I’m going to share some quick instructions to make your own larger version of this fun, modern Christmas tree block! I’ve also updated this post with a video tutorial walk through for those who prefer video learning! I also decided to make a bigger version with bigger trees and and quilt blocks. I was inspired by the versions that used a little more red and decided to make another one this year. If you search the hashtag #holidaypatchworkforest on Instagram you can see some of the versions other people made with the tutorial. These blocks finished at about 3 ¼″ x 4 ½″. Last year I made this mini quilt and shared a tutorial to make your own.

CHRISTMAS TREE QUILT BLOCKS PDF

(If you would prefer a printable PDF version, there is one available to buy for $3.00 here). Today I’m going to share a quick tutorial for these fun and super fast blocks. My pile of modern Christmas tree quilt blocks is growing.