Oh, Christmas Tree

Dear Readers,

I made another Christmas Tree wall hanging for my son so he would have a super easy time decorating for Christmas.  This makes a quilt about 27 x 77 inches.

The pattern is called "Tall Trim the Tree" by Cindi Edgerton.  Unfortunately Cindi has closed her store and the pattern is no longer available.  I hate that as I was going to make one for myself and not knowing it was discontinued I did not make a copy, as I was just going to order a new copy.  The pattern comes with paper pieces to make two tree quilts but I had used the other one to make one for Celeste a couple of years ago.  I did add corners to the top and bottom of the quilt and used the cafe door curtain rods to hang it.  Celeste wanted hers to have all the same snowflake buttons for decorations, but when I went to the store to get buttons, there were not enough large quantities of any one style to decorate the tree consistently.  I went I bought lots of cute little buttons, aliens, stars, some snowflakes, gold balls, red buttons, charms.  So he can roll it out and hang it like it is or hang ornaments on the buttons if he so desires. 

I stuck a piece of paper in the corners so you could see them easier.  

I also made a bag to store it in so it would be easy to store.

Since I did not think of the bag for Celeste's Tree I made her one too!

Merry Christmas!

Terry

O Tannenbaum

 Dear Readers,

Last year when I was at Celeste's house she said that she doesn't put up a tree as her apartment is small and there is no space.  As I was looking for a pattern that I had bought to make a baby quilt out of, I found this paper-pieced pattern that I bought a while ago call Tall Trim The Tree by Cindi Edgerton.  I decided I needed to make this for her place so she would have a Christmas tree in her home.  It was a bit different from other paper pieced patterns as it was printed on tissue paper, like what old school patterns were printed on.  That made it a bit challenging as it does not add any stability for when you are piecing.  

It finished at 28 x 78 so it is tall like a Christmas Tree!  I sewed snowflake shaped buttons in silver and White on the tree, both to decorate it and as a place you could hang other ornaments!

I quilted this on my sit down long arm as I wanted to write around the edge and I didn't think I would be able to write sideways or upside down.  I wrote part of the scripture from the Christmas story in gold in the outer border,  Merry Christmas on the bottom.  I quilted what I hoped would look like falling snow flakes in the white, grey areas and I quilted the tree with a variegated green in what I hope looked like texture of a tree.  

Put it in a mailing tube and sent it out to Colorado.  I hope it brings you joy, Celeste!

Merry Christmas.

Sew on,

Terry