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DIY Felt Christmas Tree

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You can make this Christmas tree decor piece with some leftover felt fabric and dry twigs. It’s really quick, easy and fun to make.

Materials:

Felt

Dry twig

X-acto and scissors

Hotglue gun

Step-1: Collect a dry twig of any size you prefer. Cut a long piece for the main tree log and 2 small pieces for the base.

Step-3: Print and cut out a simple Christmas tree pattern. Place the pattern on the felt fabrics you chose and trace the sides. Cut out the traced patterns. Cut 8-10 pieces.

Step-3: Take any one felt tree patterns and fold it into half lengthwise. Apply glue along the folded line and attach it with the long twig.

Step-4: Similarly take another piece of felt tree pattern and attach it with the twig, adjacent to the previous pattern. Keep attaching the tree patterns until the whole twig is covered.

Step-5: Finally attach the tree on a base to complete the project.

Use different coloured felt fabrics for variation.

 

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I love little cross stitch patterns, but it’s especially fun when a small cross stitch design has a lot of detail going on. That’s the case with this collection of national parks cross stitch patterns from Stitchin Madness. 

This isn’t really a pattern, it’s a full-on book with designs for all 63 of the national parks in the United States (which includes the Virgin Islands). Each design is unique and shows a distinctive feature or the park or what the landscape there looks like. 

The book includes a full table of contents and numbered pages to make it easy to find the design you want to make. 

Each design is 40 by 40 stitches without the park name included, and 40 by 50 stitches if you add the name. They’re designed for 14 count fabric and if you make all of them you’ll use 72 colors, though each individual pattern uses a lot fewer colors than that. 

These would be so fun to make as you visit different parks, or make the whole set to frame together if you’re a big travel person who loves the national parks. They’d also be fun as greeting cards or even ornaments for your tree with the year you visited added to it somewhere. 

The photo above shows a nice collection of some of the patterns in hoops, but I could see them done in little frames as well. This should give you a taste for what the designs look like and might even include your favorite park (mine is Acadia because I went there on my honeymoon; it isn’t on here but you can see it on the product page. 

If you’re ready to stitch the national parks, or even just a handful of them, check out this pattern book from Stitchin Madness on Etsy. I’d love to know which national park is your favorite or what you would stitch up first!

[Photo: Stitchin Madness]