Fabric Christmas Tree Tutorial

This is my first shot at a tutorial, so bare with me. I found this in a magazine to do for my photography class. We were assigned to find a magazine and re create a item with our own idea with pictures. So I immediately wanted to do something crafty, and since Christmas is right around the corner there was a Holiday Craft magazine. So here we go. . .


Step 1:
Gather all your materials, here's what you'll need.

Materials Needed:

-Canvas (I used an 8x10, the bigger the canvas the bigger the tree and smaller canvas smaller tree)
-Christmas Fabric (I just got like 9 inches of each one)
-Brown Fabric
-Buttons
-Red and Green Thread and Needle
-I found some super cute little lights in the craft section of Walmart that came in a package.
-I had some red star buttons so I used that as my topper (you could find angel buttons or use whatever you wanted to us.
-Hot Glue gun
-Different size circle items (I used a milk jug lid, ibuprofen lid, and a water bottle lid)
-Scissors
-Pencil

Step 2:
      I started by picking my favorite fabric and tracing my circles. I did 3-4 circles on each fabric. I   always find it easier to use the back to trace on, that way if you don't cut right on the line it won't matter, and your line is usually easier to see.

Step 3:

     

     Once you have several circles cut out, its time to start placing your circles on the canvas in the shape of a tree, its really up to on how close together you want the circles. This is where you'll want to add you buttons and if you get the little lights put that on there also. Take a picture of what you decide so you can go back and look at it, because you'll have to take everything off to sew the circles and buttons on.

Step 4:

     Then start your sewing!! It's always sew much fun, hahahaha. When you are all done sewing you'll need to put your lights on, I hot glued my lights on, also the star and bottom on tree trunk was where I couldn't sew, so I just tied thread through my star then glued the star and sewed half the trunk and glued the rest.

 Tada, the finished project.

I hope you enjoy making yours!!