Small Christmas-themed Art Quilts with embroidery

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Small Christmas Art Quilts

Get ready to create three unique Christmas art quilts that are perfect for adding holiday cheer to your home. This tutorial will guide you through sewing, quilting, and decorating these small quilts using machine embroidery and festive buttons. Each quilt features a different holiday-inspired design, making them great for decorating or gifting. Whether you're experienced or new to quilting, this project offers a fun way to explore your creativity this season.

Any Christmas-themed stitch-outs can be used for the project, but we selected ones with Christmas trees: Christmas Snowfall, Chain Christmas Tree and Winter Wind Christmas Tree. All designs are for the large hoop (5" x 7").

The finished size of each quilt depends on your taste and the size of the fabric you're using for embroidery. Feel free to be creative.

A small quilt with embroidered Christmas tree on a dark green background, decorated with snowflake buttons.

The finished size of the quilt is 8" x 9 1/2".
Winter Wind Christmas Tree

A small dark bluequilt with the embroidery of a Christmas tree decorated with Christmas-themed buttons.

The finished size of the quilt is 9" x 12 1/2".
Chain Christmas Tree

A small forest green quilt with embroidery of a Christmas tree decorated with snowman buttons.

The finished size of the quilt is x 9 1/2" x 12".
Christmas Snowfall

You will need :

embroidery threads either polyester or rayon;
pieces of solid dark-colored cotton fabrics large enough to be hooped;
small amount of cotton fabrics for the binding and backing;
light-weight cut-away embroidery stabilizer;
batting;
packs of Christmas-themed decorative buttons;
quilter's ruler;
rotary cutter;
iron;
#12 universal needle;
quilting threads;
#12-#14 quilting needle.

Embroidery:

For the project, we used some scraps with test stitch-outs accumulated in our bin within passed years. However, if you do not have a habit to keep such tests, embroider the files.
Upload the selected files to the embroidery machine.
Select threads. Stabilize the fabric.
Hoop the fabric tightly and embroider the designs.
Remove the excess stabilizer.

3 test stitch-outs of the Christmas trees.

Quilting and Finishing

Now place the backing on a flat surface (table) face down. Cover with batting. Spread your working piece over it.

Pin all layers together.
We quilted in a free-motion style all over the working pieces. Start from the emboidery - echo-quilt it, also quilt inside the patterns. We used metallic thread for the purpose. Then proceed to the areas around the embroidery and use threads matching the colors of the fabrics.

Press with heavy steam. Square the pieces - all angles should be 90 degrees and opposite sides of the same length.
Finish the raw edges with the binding.
Please note that the finished size of your quilts depends on you.

3 small quilts with stitch-outs of the Christmas trees.

Now for the fun part! We decorate each quilt with Christmas-themed buttons. For the quilt with the Winter Wind Christmas Tree we used white snowflakes of different sizes.