Home for Christmas Wall Hanging

Place
A Martingale
Company
Home for Christmas Wall Hanging
From Christmas Quilts from Hopscotch
by Heather Willms and Elissa Willms
ShopMartingale.com
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Home for Christmas Wall Hanging
Finished Size: 35" x 26¾"
Skill Level:
From the cream solid fabric, cut:
2 strips, 1¼" x 19¼"
2 strips, 1¼" x 29"
Materials
Yardages are based on 42"-wide fabrics.
⅓ yard of cream polka-dot print for background
⅓ yard of cream tree print for background
¼ yard of candy-cane print for inner border and
sashing
¼ yard of cream solid fabric for middle border
½ yard of green tree print for outer border
¼ yard total of assorted bright scraps for
checkerboard
⅛ yard of green fabric for tree branches
Scraps of brown fabric for tree trunk
4" x 10" rectangle of turquoise fabric for tree pots
5½" x 10" rectangle of red polka-dot print for
house
4½" x 7½" rectangle of blue striped fabric for
house roof
4½" x 7" rectangle of gold fabric for star on house
Scrap of green fabric for house chimney
⅜ yard total of assorted red prints for binding
1 yard of fabric for backing
30" x 38" piece of batting
2 green buttons, ¾" diameter
1 red button, ½" diameter
¾ yard of fusible web (optional)
From the green tree print, cut:
2 strips, 3½" x 20¾"
2 strips, 3½" x 35"
From the assorted red prints, cut a total of:
4 strips, 2½" x 42"
Assembling the Wall Hanging
For help with qppliqué techniques, go to
ShopMartingale.com/HowToQuilt.
1. Using the appliqué patterns on pages 4 and 5
and your favorite appliqué method, appliqué the
design of your choice in the middle of each 8½"
x 14" rectangle. Elissa appliquéd a small feather
tree on each polka-dot rectangle and a house on
the cream tree-print rectangle. She used a machine
blanket stitch around the edges of the appliqué
shapes.
2. Sew four 1¼" x 14" candy-cane strips and the
appliquéd blocks into a row; press.
3. Sew the 1¼" x 27½" candy-cane strip to the top
of the appliquéd blocks; press.
Cutting
4. Sew three 2" squares together to make a unit;
press. Repeat to make 18 units. Sew three units
together to make a nine-patch unit. Make six ninepatch units.
All measurements include ¼"-wide seam allowances.
From the cream polka-dot print, cut:
2 rectangles, 8½" x 14"
From the cream tree print, cut:
1 rectangle, 8½" x 14"
From the candy-cane print, cut:
1 strip, 1¼" x 27½"
4 strips, 1¼" x 14"
Make 18.
From the assorted bright fabric scraps, cut a
total of:
54 squares, 2" x 2"
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Make 6.
Merry
and Bright
Home for
Christmas
Wall Hanging
Home for Christmas Wall Hanging
5. Sew the nine-patch units together side by
side to make one checkerboard block measuring
5" x 27½", which includes seam allowances.
Finishing the Wall Hanging
1. Mark the wall hanging for quilting. Elissa
marked 45º lines 1½" apart in the green outer
borders.
6. Referring to the assembly diagram, sew the
checkerboard block to the bottom of the appliquéd
blocks; press.
2. Layer the quilt top with batting and backing;
baste.
7. Sew a cream 19¼"-long strip to each side of the
wall hanging; press. Sew a cream 29"-long strip to
the top and bottom; press.
3. Hand or machine quilt as desired. Elissa
machine quilted in the ditch around the appliqué
motifs and along the borders and length of the
checkerboard unit. She then quilted in the ditch
vertically through the checkerboard unit and on
the marked diagonal lines in the outer border.
8. Sew a 20¾"-long green tree strip to each side of
the wall hanging; press. Sew a 35"-long strip to the
top and bottom; press.
4. Sew a red button to the center of the star and
a green button in the middle of each feather-tree
pot.
5. Using the 2½"-wide strips, sew the binding
to the quilt, referring to ShopMartingale.com/
HowToQuilt as needed.
6. Add a label and a hanging sleeve to your quilt.
Assembly diagram
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Home for Christmas Wall Hanging
Small Feather Tree
Patterns are reversed
for fusible appliqué.
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Pot
6
5
1
4
3
2
4
Home for Christmas Wall Hanging
House
Patterns are reversed
for fusible appliqué.
House
Star
Roof
Chimney
© 2012 by Heather Willms and Elissa Willms
First published in Christmas Quilts
from Hopscotch
19021 120th Ave. NE, Ste. 102
Bothell, WA 98011 USA
800.426.3126
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