Quilted Tree Wall Hangings

May 14th, 2010 | Posted by Michelle in Quilts | Sewing

This year for Christmas presents I really didn’t have any money to spend on presents for anyone. I know the spirit of Christmas is supposed to be about giving and cherishing your family, showing people appreciation and love. To me the best way to do that is to make something for the people you care about.

I was really fortunate this year to be able to make gifts out of things I already had in my stash of stuff. Overall Christmas cost me a total of about $7. Which is really quite incredible for the gifts I did this year. Grandma’s quilt, quilted wall hangings, and some scarves. I do have to say the quilt was impressive but the wall hangings were by far my favorite finished project.

I made a total of 3 of these wall hangings. They were all made with 2.5″ squares and and triangles. I must have cut out hundreds of these squares. Though I’m pretty sure I’ve just about used up all of my green fabric.

It seems like all of my gifts this past year had to do with squares. I can really and honestly say I’m sick of squares.

I started the process by laying out the squares to make the basic shape. Since I was making so many of these I didn’t have a real formula for how many of each fabric I needed, I was able to swap and switch them as needed to make a seemingly random pattern.

It didn’t look like much of a tree at this point, it looked like some sort of really sad pixelated tree from an old video game.

When the triangles were added it finally looked like a tree.

For the background I used a white on white print of holly leaves. It was really hard to photograph but it almost looked like snow in the background. I was tempted to put shiny beads on it like it was decorated but I think that would have taken away from the really pretty and simple look of the tree.

I had quite the difficult decision to make with the thread to use for quilting. I didn’t want to use white and have it show up on the green, and I didn’t want to use green and have it show up on the white. So I ended up going with clear.

“Hur hur… I bet when you were younger you’re favorite color was clear huh? Hur hur…”

Random quotes from work sometimes show up in weird places. Just disregard them.

Overall I loved how it turned out. Husband wanted to figure out something else to give one of them so we could keep one of the trees. I said no. He cried.

Well…Maybe he cried on the inside.

It made me feel really good at Christmas when my Uncle opened the gift and immediately took down a pictures from the wall and hug the tree in its place. That’s when you know they loved it, when they put it up right away to show it off.

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