Fabric Christmas Trees
These easy and fun fabric Christmas trees are easy to make for a sweet country farmhouse look anywhere in your home this season.
Yield: 1
Equipment
- Fabric marker
- Computer
- Printer
- Sewing Machine
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun and glue
Materials
- Coordinating Fabric for Trees
- Dowel rods
- Brown craft paint or stain
- Fiberfill
- Burlap fabric
- Ground walnut shells or sand
- Twine
Instructions
- Print out the template and cut out the tree shape.
- Trace around the tree onto two pieces of fabric with wrong sides together using a tracing pen or light pencil.
- Sew on the traced lines leaving two inches at the bottom open.
- Cut out the tree about 1/4 inch from the stitches.
- Stuff the tree with fiberfill.
- Cut the dowel rod to the desired length.
- Paint or stain one end that will show.
- Insert the rod into the center of the tree and hot glue the opening closed at the base.
- Use a 6 inch round of burlap to create a sack.
- Sew basting (loose) stitches all around about 1/2 inch from the edge.
- Pull the threads to gather the burlap and tie them together.
- Fill the sack with ground walnut shells, sand, or other similar material.
- Place the tree into the sack and hot glue the top of the burlap to the dowel.
- Wrap a piece of twine around the top of the sack and tie it into a bow.
Notes
Get creative and use different materials that you already have around the house for the fillers and dowels. Instead of ground walnut shells, you can use sand, salt, small beans, etc.. You could use branches from outside for the dowel rods and you could you any kind of fabric for the sack.
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