Christmas Pudding Wreath

I promised you a tutorial for my Christmas Pudding Wreath and here it is!

It really is a speedy make and one that a child could make with minimal supervision, so if you need a little 'me' time you know what to do :)

To make your own Christmas Pudding Wreath you will need the following :

• One 8"/20cm polystyrene ring
• Scraps of brown fabric approximately 2" wide equalling 120" in length
• Scraps of cream fabric approximately 2" wide equalling 70" in length
• 5/6 small brown flat back buttons
• 10" scalloped lace trim
• Scrap of green felt approx 3" square
• 2 small red bells 
• Small brass coin charm and 1 brass jump ring (optional)
• 12" narrow red satin ribbon

You will also need pins/glue or staples to attach the fabric to the ring.

Step 1

Sew the brown fabrics together until you have a strip 2" wide and 120" long. (If your ring is bigger than 8" or your strips are narrower than 2" you will need to make the strip longer than 120" )

Starting at a point halfway between the top and left mid-point of the ring pin/glue or staple one end of the brown fabric strip to the back of the ring. Holding the fabric tightly in your hand wrap the ring with fabric overlapping the fabric approximately every 1/4" to 1/2" all the way around to the same point on the opposite side of the ring. (If you are left-handed it might be easier to start on the right hand side and work towards the left)

When you have reached the opposite point of the ring pin/glue/staple the fabric to the reverse of the ring. (If your fabric strip is too long just cut off the excess fabric at the back of the ring, the exact length of strip that you will need depends upon how tightly the ring is wrapped so you may end up with a little bit of extra fabric if your wrapping is not as tight as mine was).

Step 2

Sew the cream fabric scraps together until you have a strip 2" wide and 70" long.

Starting where you began with the brown fabric wrap the cream fabric around the ring overlapping the end of the brown fabric and then wrap in the opposite direction until you reach the other end of the brown fabric. Overlap the end of the brown fabric and wrap the cream fabric around a couple of times before finishing as before.

Step 3

Glue the buttons randomly on the brown fabric wrapped section of the ring.

Step 4

Attach the scalloped lace trim to the wreath starting at the back of the ring where the cream fabric wrapping begins and following the curve of the wreath finish at the back where the cream fabric wrapping ends.

Step 5

Cut out two holly leaf shapes from the green felt. (I cut my shapes out freehand but you could trace the pattern first on the felt) Overlap them at one end and stitch together. Stitch the bells to the felt leaves where they overlap. Glue/pin the holly leaves and bells to the centre top of the wreath.

Step 6

Fold the ribbon in half lengthwise and pin/staple to the centre top back of the wreath.

Attach the coin charm to the edge of the lace using the jump ring.

Stand back and admire your new Christmas decoration :)

Ho, Ho, Ho and on We Sew - a Christmas Cushion

Welcome to another monthly Ho, Ho, Ho and on We Sew Link Party. As we are now in the seventh month of the year, it is definitely time to start thinking about that big holiday looming at the end of the year!

To get your Christmas and Holiday crafting kickstarted we have not one, but two, great tutorials lined up for you this month and two wonderful blogs to check out too.

Martha, who blogs at Weekend Doings is a wonderfully talented blogger who takes the most beautiful photos of her makes. Martha's photos of the produce from her garden will have you drooling :) Martha has a very stylish iPad cover to share with you this month.

Chelsea, who blogs at the brilliantly named Patch the Giraffe is sharing her tutorial for a Flying Geese Christmas tree pillow that you should definitely check out. Having made a tree skirt last month Chelsea is definitely a Ho, Ho, Ho-er :)

As ever our mission is to have you all organised and calm by the time December 25th comes around, and to help us we have gathered together a great bunch of bloggers, who are posting tutorials for gift and home decoration projects throughout the year. You can find all of the previous tutorials by following the link at the top of the page.

Of course, it wouldn't be a Ho, Ho, Ho and on We Sew Link Party without a giveaway and this month's giveaway comes courtesy of the lovely people at the Fat Quarter Shop

                                                             

                                                               

This month one lucky winner will get to pick their favourite from the Fat Quarter Shop's range of mini charm packs, and all you have to do is link up your Christmas or Holiday makes for July to be in with a chance of winning. The winner of last month's giveaway was Sue, who blogs at SuperMom - No Cape!

My own Christmas make this month was inspired by a block that I made several months ago for the Fat Stash Brit Bee.

The block is from this book Modern Holiday by Amanda Murphy.

I thought when I made it that it would make a nice cushion cover (the pattern in the book is for a quilt). So that is what I did!

I used red linen for the background and the wreath fabrics were all from a pile of layer cake Christmas fabrics that I received in a fabric swap a couple of years ago. It is difficult to see from the photo but the red linen has a Christmas bell pattern woven in to it, so was ideal for this Christmas cushion. Needless to say the linen fabric was brought back from Latvia and there is a lot more where that came from :)

So, now it is your turn to share your Christmas and holiday makes for July, you can link up either with Martha at Weekend Doings or with Chelsea at Patch the Giraffe, the choice is yours!

As you know we couldn't do this without the support of these generous sponsors who have provided us with such great prizes throughout the year.

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Linking up to Sew the Library at Weekend Doings