Day 5 of the AccuQuilt Christmas Theme Blog Hop & Giveaway(Final Day)

Sadly, this is the final day of our AccuQuilt Christmas theme blog hop.  We hope that we've inspired you with some fun projects.  My apologies for my post being released late today, but seems my original post disappeared.  As this also happened to Leona this week, I suspect those blogger mice may have had one too many eggnog at one of their computer Christmas parties this week!.

The blogs participating in this blog hop, are quilters that use Modern Quilting Tools and love their AccuQuilt products!  In addition to great insights, many will also be offering giveaways that they'll announce on their respective day of the hop.  Plus, our sponsor has a special giveaway opportunity for you too!


First, I'd like to recognize and thank those that have participated in this blog hop:

Leona (Leona's Quilting Adventure), Cherry (Cherry Bossoms), Terrie (Bits & Pieces), Nancy (Tattered Garden), Katrina (Sunshower Quilts), Jacque (Lily Pad Quilting), and Paulette (Sweet P Quilting and Creations).

I also want to recognize and thank AccuQuilt for being a sponsor for this blog hop and donating a special prize.

Time for me to share my project with you.  I wanted to make something crafty vs quilty and I loved the idea of a yo-yo Christmas tree with cute red buttons.  This project is very easy  to make, especially with the help of an AccuQuilt and a circle die!  When the lighting in my home is better, later today, I'll update this post with better photos.  So, for those of  you seeing not very inspiring photos of this tree, I hope you'll check back (or that you are good and imaging a beautiful table with this tree as a Christmas centerpiece).

To make this Christmas Tree, I started with the following supplies:

- green foam cone that you can easily find at Michaels, JoAnns, or another craft store

- small clay pot that fits underneath the tree (green foam)

- assorted collection of green fabrics (I used various Hoffman Christmas prints)

- red buttons

- fabric glue

- AccuQuilt and a circle die

After quickly cutting my circles, using the medium size circle on the GO! Circle die, I then made my yo-yo's.  You simply using a running stitch to turn down the outer 1/8" - 1/4" inch of the fabric.  The smaller the amount of fabric you can turn down the smaller the hole will be in your yo-yo, allowing you to use smaller buttons.

After stitching completely around the circle, pull the thread thru to draw it tight.  At first it looks like a little night cap, but you can lightly finger press it flat to form the yo-yo.

Add one red button to cover the center hole of the yo-yo and tie off your thread on the backside.

From the scraps of fabric left from cutting the circles, I glued these pieces to the green foam.  This step helps to cover the green foam, so that when you place your yo-yos on the foam tree, you see fabric in between the yo-yos vs  green foam.

Now you are ready to glue the yo-yos to the covered tree.

Next, I  placed the tree on top of the clay pot, but you could glue your tree to the clay pot if you wished.

Again, this is a very easy craft project.  I'd actually like to make a collection of these Christmas Trees, of various sizes. 

But this particular Christmas Tree is going to be a gift in a gift exchange at a quilty party on Monday.  Shhhh!  Please don't tell anyone this is what is in my bag!  LOL! 



Did I mention a giveaway?  Today, I have a simple giveaway that will help someone make one of these cute Christmas Trees.  The winner will get a bundle of circles, enough to make this tree (or another project).  To enter, simply be a follower and leave a comment to let me know you would like to win this bundle of Hoffman Fabrics pre-cut with an AccuQuilt.  I will randomly draw a winner and announce next Friday.  Just one comment entry, per person, please.

Don't forget to GO! enter to win the prize generously donated by our sponsor.  Yes, AccuQuilt is playing Santa and some lucky winner will be notifed on Christmas morning that they've won a GO! Baby.

Also, today is not just my day in this blog hop, but also the day for Paulette (Sweet P Quilting and Creations) so please be sure to pop on over and see her tutorial and insights today too.  And, if you haven't yet visited all of the other blogs in this hop, I hope you'll take time to visit them.  They have shared some excellent tutorials with inspirational projects, as well as many fun giveaways: Leona (Leona's Quilting Adventure), Cherry (Cherry Bossoms), Terrie (Bits & Pieces), Nancy (Tattered Garden), Katrina (Sunshower Quilts), and Jacque (Lily Pad Quilting).


Lastly, I want to announce the winner of last Friday's giveaway sponsored by the Electric Quilt Company, for a copy of EQ7.  The winner is:  VickiT

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update:  Winner of the giveaway, for the Hoffman Christmas fabrics cut with the AccuQuilt circle die, to make a yo-yo Christmas tree is: #14 Josie McRazie (insanity defense)

note: I will not be responding to comments for entries in this giveaway, due to volume of emails I'm currently receiving.

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