Grain Sack Christmas Tree How-To
In this post: Grain Sack Christmas Tree How To. Easy tutorial with pictures to make a fabric covered tree. Use drop cloths, grain sacks or scrap fabric.Â
Crafting is alway fun…but crafting at Christmas is the best. This grain sack Christmas tree project is one of my all-time favorites. I use these trees every year somewhere in my Christmas decor.
Before we begin, let’s talk about the grain sack scraps. Obviously you don’t have to use grain sacks. I hate to waste even a scrap of grain sack and this is a great way to use up odds and ends. However, any type of fabric will work perfectly. Muslin, drop cloths, fat quarters, an old sheet. You need strips (length doesn’t matter) that are about 1-2 inches wide. Random is good.
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Grain Sack Christmas Tree Decor Idea
Supplies needed:
- 15 in. styrofoam tree form
- 12 in. styrofoam tree form
- 9 in. styrofoam tree form
- bells
- star toppers
- mini buttons
- strips of grain sack or other fabric
- Fire up your glue gun so it’s nice and hot when you’re ready.
- Begin at the bottom of the first tree and pin on a strip of fabric like pictured below.
- Don’t worry about the pin heads because you will be covering them up.
- Wrap the strip of fabric around the tree. You have to sort of pull it to make it go on smoothly.
- When you get to the end of a strip, overlap with another and pin where they meet.
- Continue up the tree until you reach the top.
- Make sure the top of the tree doesn’t peek out.
- Make the garland. I used vintage bells but you could use anything you have on hand.
- String the bells on thin twine.
- Knot one end.
- Decide now which side of your tree is the front.
- Start the garland on the back of the tree at the bottom, securing the knotted end with a pin.
- Wind the garland around the tree and secure at the top with another knot and pin.
- Glue on groups of buttons spaced evenly around the tree.
- Make sure and cover any pin heads with a couple of buttons.
- Attach your star to the top.
There you have it. Finished.
2016 Update: I made this grain sack Christmas tree set four years ago and have used them in my Christmas decor every year. I store them, wrapped in tissue paper, in a plastic bin. They have held up perfectly and are, of all the Christmas decorations I’ve ever had, my favorites.
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