Yuletide Fir

Welcome to my day, which is the last day of the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop, hosted by Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

If you are looking to link up to Midweek Makers today - it's totally my fault in the scheduling. Truly sorry! But no fear, Midweek Makers will be back next week!

So let's have a look at the Yuletide Fir, a modern style Christmas tree.

Made from strip sets of different greens plus a narrow background strip, triangles were cut using the tri-tool ruler (affiliate link). 

After laying out the pieces in a pleasing arrangement, the sewing began, one row at a time.

With the squared off point at the top, the triangles were super easy to sew together, as the proper 1/4" dog-ears happened at each end.

Once the rows were done, they were sewn together, carefully matching points with a few test stitches before the whole seam was stitched to make the tree. 

The sides were made by carefully laying the tree on folded fabric to get mirror image pieces. Then the ruler is placed up against the tree to make the cut. 

To give myself a bit of wiggle room, the side pieces were cut a bit bigger than needed, then the excess gets trimmed.

And every Christmas tree needs a star!

That star shines brightly, throwing out beams of light in all of the straight line quilting. 

The tree itself was stitched-in-the-ditch to let it to pop out of the quilt, with light beams continuing through the branches of the tree,

and down to the ground past the trunk.

This tree would also look great with embellishment, such as clear or colored Swarovski crystals, or tiny buttons on the tree - maybe I'll do that in the future.                                                                                                     

Happy Quilting!