Free Christmas trees quilt pattern

Make your next family heirloom with this modern take on a classic Christmas quilt pattern – raid your fabric stash for reds, greens and low volume blenders to turn your offcuts into clever Christmas trees. This simple yet eye-catching design plays with triangles to create a row upon row of stripy trees. Each Christmas tree is actually pieced using Foundation Paper Piecing – if you haven’t come across this method before it’s a clever way of sewing shapes neatly together on to a paper template (then you remove the template at the end to reveal your finished patchwork. If you’re new to FPP, fear not, check out our Beginners guide to Foundation Paper Piecing to learn the ropes. Get ready to ho ho sew…

If you’re new to making quilts, you might also like our guide to quilting for beginners, or for more festive fun, head to our round up of our favourite Christmas quilt patterns. And for more festive quilt inspiration, how about this free snowflake quilt block pattern?

Free Christmas trees quilt pattern

This quilt pattern was designed by Judith Dahmen and was first published in Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine.

Fabric requirements

• Print fabric scraps (ten to fifteen different prints), each 3½in wide and 4in–10in long – one hundred and twenty (120) pieces in total
• Background fabric for blocks 2¾yds
• Sashing fabric 1¼yds
• Backing fabric 3¼yds
• Batting 58in x 68in
• Binding fabric ½yd
• Thirty (30) sheets of A3 paper

Finished quilt size

• 54in x 64in approx

Notes

• Download our Free Christmas Quilt Pattern
• All seam allowances are ¼in unless otherwise stated.
• Press all fabrics before cutting.
• WOF = width of fabric.
• Shorten your stitch length for foundation paper piecing
• Fabric for this project was kindly supplied by The Village Haberdashery

How to make a Christmas tree quilt

Judith Dahmen

London-based Judith’s sewing and quilting designs have been featured regularly in Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine. She started knitting at an early age before getting into sewing as a teenager. She got into quilting after seeing a quilt in a craft store in St Ives, Cornwall, and realising she couldn’t afford it so would have to make her own. She blogs over at Needles and Lemons where you will find quilt inspiration aplenty, plus handy tips, in-depth tutorials and patterns – http://www.needlesandlemons.com. She also has a great passion for fine art photography, and she sells her quilts in her Etsy store http://www.etsy.com/shop/needlesandlemons.

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