Fabric Mini Christmas Trees

        Today I’m posting something a little different – okay, a lot different. A very unusual fabric Christmas tree that I made several years ago for a quilt guild challenge showed up on my Facebook page and I reposted it. My daughter saw it and decided that she now needed three of them. I sort of remembered how I made them and decided to try to make them for her.

Our quilt guild challenge was to make a project using some ugly fabric that they gave us….everyone else made a small quilt project.  You know how they say, “look outside the box”? Well the area around the box I look out  of is wide and open for anything. Here is the first one I made.

Here are the three I made for her.

    These are strips of fabric dipped in watered down Tacky glue and laid on a wire…many layers are better. Once they are dry I had to zigzag shiny matching thread over the wire to hid it. Then holes were poked through so I could add the beads. The wire goes up through the star and also glued on the back. On the one I made I just poked the wire down into the old wooden stool but I decided Barbi’s should be a bit more secure so the backs were secured with a small dowel covered with some heavy cardstock. The old wooden spools had fancy thread wrapped around them and they are then glued to a small wooden circle. They are a fair amount of work but she liked them so it was worth the trouble of making them.

        That’s all for a very cold Wednesday, Dec 11, 2109 …..it’s going down to -12C (10F) overnight. I’ll be back on Friday with another card.

 Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes take a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.