Silent Night Sampler: Day 7

We're celebrating the season with 12 days of holiday-themed block tutorials using Ro Gregg's gorgeous and glittering Silent Night collection. Make sure you catch all of the tutorials, and then we'll show you how to assemble the blocks into a sampler quilt! 

Today's block is the Tree Block. We've spiced it up a little bit by using two different greens. Add more for a scrappier tree if you like! 

Block measures 12" square finished.

Cutting:

From the cream print:

Two 2-1/2" x 5-1/2" pieces

Two 2-1/2" x 4-1/2" pieces

Two 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" pieces

Twelve 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" squares

Two 2-1/2" x 1-1/2" pieces

From green print #1: 

One 2-1/2" x 4-1/2" piece

One 2-1/2" x 8-1/2" piece

One 2-1/2" x 12-1/2" piece

From green print #2:

One 2-1/2" x 6-1/2" piece

One 2-1/2" x 10-1/2" piece

From the gold/black print:

One 2-1/2" square

Step 1: Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of ten 2-1/2" squares. 

Step 2: Layer a marked squares right sides together on both ends of the green print pieces as shown. 

Step 3: For the top green print #1 piece, stitch on the marked line. Trim seam allowance to 1/4" and press open. Position the second marked square as shown; sew, trim and press.

Step 4: Add the remaining marked squares in the same way. 

Step 5: Lay out the cream spacer pieces as shown below. The 2-1/2" x 4-1/2" pieces are in the top row, 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" in the second row, 2-1/2" squares in the third row, and 1-1/2" x 2-1/2" pieces in the fourth row. Sew the pieces into rows.

Step 6: To make the trunk, lay out the two 2-1/2" x 5-1/2" cream pieces with the 2-1/2" black/gold square. Sew the pieces together.

Step 7: Join the five tree rows and one trunk row together.

The finished block:

One tree block, ready to go!

See the entire Silent Night collection here and ask for it at your local quilt shop.

See all of our Silent Night Sampler Blocks!
Day 1: Wreath Block

Day 2: Star Block #1

Day 3: Bow Block

Day 4: Stocking Block

Day 5: Star Block #2

Day 6: Present Block
Day 8: Ornament Block

Day 9: Candy Cane Block

Day 10: Star Block #3

Day 11: Cardinal Block
Day 12: Assembly

Season's Greetings!

...It's both the sentiment for this time of year and the name of one of our Christmas collections. 
We're in the holiday mood, so we thought we'd share two easy Christmas-themed blocks today, both using the Season's Greetings collection.
You know, since you're no doubt sitting back relaxed, all ready for the holidays. Not out buying last-minute presents, cruising the grocery store aisles, or frantically searching for another roll of tape to finish wrapping the gifts. :)

Ornament Block

Stripe:

Cut (1) 2-1/2'' x 8-1/2'' strip

Blue:

Cut (2) 1-1/2'' x 8-1/2'' strips

Cut (1) 1'' x 2-1/2'' piece

Red:

Cut (2) 2-1/2'' x 8-1/2'' strips

Cream:

Cut (4) 2-1/2'' squares

Cut (2) 2-1/2'' x 8-1/2'' strips

Cut (1) 2-1/2'' x 12-1/2'' strip

Cut (2) 2-1/2'' x 6-1/4'' strips

Make the Ornament Block

1. Sew the 1-1/2'' x 8-1/2'' blue strips lengthwise to opposite sides of the 2-1/2'' x 8-1/2'' stripe strip.

2. Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of the (4) 2-1/2'' cream squares. Lay a marked square right sides together on a corner of a 2-1/2'' x 8-1/2'' red strip. Sew on the drawn line and trim ½'' past the line. Press open. Repeat on opposite corner. Add cream squares to the second red strip in the same way.

3. Sew the pieced red strips lengthwise to the blue pieces from step 1.

4. Sew the  2-1/2'' x 6-1/4'' cream strips to opposite sides of the 1'' x 2-1/2'' blue piece.

5. Sew the 2-1/2'' x 8-1/2'' cream strips to the sides of the ornament. Sew the 2-1/2'' x 12-1/2'' cream strip to the bottom, and the pieced cream strip from step 4 to the top. 

Tree Block

Black print:

Cut (1) 2-1/2'' square

Green #1:

Cut (1) 2-1/2'' x 12-1/2'' strip

Cut (1) 2-1/2'' x 4-1/2'' piece

Green #2:

Cut (1) 2-1/2'' x 10-1/2'' strip

Green #3:

Cut (1) 2-1/2'' x 8-1/2'' strip

Green  #4:

Cut (1) 2-1/2'' x 6-1/2'' strip

Cream:

Cut (2) 2-1/2'' x 5-1/2'' strips

Cut (2) 2-1/2'' x 4-1/2'' strips

Cut (2) 2-1/2'' x 3-1/2'' pieces

Cut (12) 2-1/2'' squares

Cut (2) 1-1/2'' x 2-1/2'' pieces

Make the Tree Block

1. Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of (10) 2-1/2'' cream squares. Lay 2 marked squares on the short ends of each green strip, sew on the drawn line and trim ¼'' past the line. Press open.

2. Sew the (2) 1-1/2'' x 2-1/2'' cream pieces to the ends of the second longest green row. Sew the remaining (2) cream squares to the ends of the third green row. Sew the (2) 2-1/2'' x 3-1/2'' cream pieces to the ends of the fourth green row. Sew the (2) 2-1/2'' x 4-1/2'' cream pieces to the ends of the top green row.

3. Sew the (2) 2-1/2'' x 5-1/2'' cream pieces to opposite sides of the 2-1/2'' black print square to make the trunk row.

4. Sew the trunk row and 5 green rows together to complete the tree block. 

The Season's Greetings line features a whopping 44 prints--something for everyone! We're showing a few favorites below, but you can see the entire collection here.

p.s. Cat Lady is our winner from the Garland tutorial giveaway. Congratulations, Cat Lady! Please email us at fabriquiltblog (at) gmail.com with your address. 

***Also, Candy Soehren, we are still waiting to hear from you to get your mailing address for the 

Christmas in the Woods giveaway bundle. 

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