Here’s a tutorial on a fast easy centerpiece. You can stitch this in about two hours, and then just slip your potted plant, floral bouquet or a glass vase of sparkly Christmas ornaments inside the tube. It’s a fast and easy way to dress up your table.
You’ll Need:
- Stipple! Jingle Bells Collection
- One 9” x 30” quilt sandwich. For best results, measure your 5” x 7” hoop and cut your quilt sandwich 4” wider than the hoop.
- Appliqué fabrics: green, red, white, yellow and soft gray
- One 6 ½” x 22” strip of lining fabric
- Four 1” x 6” sashing strips
- One 2 ½” x 25” binding strip
- Flour 4 ½” squares of cardboard or heavy duty cardstock
Instructions:
Stitch four Stipple! Jingle Bell blocks on the quilt sandwich, spacing the blocks 1” apart. Follow the color sequence instructions included in the Jingle Bell CD for making each block. Trim the blocks with ¼” seam allowance on all four sides.
Sew one sashing strip to the right edge of the first block, right sides together, and ¼” seam allowance.
Press.
Sew the second block to the sashing strip.
Add another sashing strip to the right edge of the second block. Repeat for all four blocks.
Sew the last block to the first block, creating a tube.
Bind the top edge. Set aside.
Fold and press under ½” on one long end of the 6 ½” x 22” lining strip. Sew the short ends of the strip, right sides together. Topstitch the folded edge.
Fold the lining strip into quarters and mark with pins. Place the lining strip over the quilted tube, aligning the bottom raw edges and matching the quarter marks to the sashing strips.
Sew with ¼” seam allowance.
Turn, press. Pin the lining at the sashing strips.
Stitch in the center of each sashing strip.
Insert card board squares.
Fold into a square; insert a candle or small plant.
Enjoy your new centerpiece!
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57 COMMENTS
Beverly
12 years agoI loved reading all the etips!!!
Connie W
12 years agoLove the OESD stabilizers! Great products! And this quick centerpiece project using the jingle bell stipple blocks is adorable.
Lisa Moorman
12 years agoI love the stipple designs (all of them). They are fun and unique for gifts.
Dee
12 years agoWhat a great and quick idea!
Margie F.
12 years agoI could spend hours looking at all of the designs — so amazing and with limitless possibilities!
Donna K
12 years agoMy favorite OESD product is NO SHOW MESH Stabilizer. It makes all of my quilt projects embroidery beautifully and the long arm doesn’t cough and sputter when I quilt.
Dell
12 years agoI have been very pleased with various types of OESD stabilizers. They also have so many fabulous designs.
Cassandra Hammond
12 years agoLove everything, designs and articles.
Jane Anderson
12 years agoI really like the OESD stabilizers but I love the special Christmas Designs from OESD each year. The designs make are used for Christmas gifts for members of my family.
Jane in KS
Maxine
12 years agoLove all the designs.
Carolyn Hutchinson
12 years agoI love the FSL Christmas village, especially the gazebo and little park bench!
Beth R
12 years agoI love the OESD Christmas design sets. They are all beautiful, especially the 2008 Christmas set.
Sally Richards
12 years agowow, this looks great! Love to put that on my table! I love looking at all your items you have and have purchased many.
Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂
Lisha Falk
12 years agoLove the vintage Christmas designs as well as the tree designs. I am crazy for Christmas designs. So many designs so little time!
Jill Hicks
12 years agoI really love the design collection Name Above All Names.
Debbie St.Germain
12 years agoI love the Christmas designs, they would be wonderful to do on a Christmas quilt for the quilting and as a design on the blocks.
Debbie
Gail Beam
12 years agoLove your Christmas project! OESD has some fantastic designs!
Gail
Barbara Rowlan Wong
12 years agoI love all their Christmas designs! They also have a huge variety of designs its fun to window shop there. I’ve never purchased theor stanblizer but will sure be doing that in the future after all the great comments above!!!
Donna G.
12 years agoI like so many of their designs, but I especially like the FSL supply kits and collection CDs. My favorite is the FSL Victorian House.
Angela Taylor
12 years agoI have the 2008 collection 1, , 2, 3 and the 2010 from OECD also 123. Love love love the collections. They make the prettiest gifts people love to get. Keep them coming.
Cathy Rosynek
12 years agoLove the Christmas Village series of designs!
Sue Reed
12 years agoLove this tutorial, awesome for decor or gift. I love using the OESD stabilizers. I really like the Christmas designs best! anything for the holidays. 🙂
Vicki Batty
12 years agoFavourite OESD product that I have purchased is the Antique Cars design set. Twenty quality designs that stitch out so well (good pathing, lovely embossing in fill and satin areas). And two of the designs are of Rolls Royce motorcars – my husband’s favourite.
Kelly Williams
12 years agoDesperately seeking the OESD Antique Cars design set. Do you know where I can find one?
gayle hill
12 years agoI love stipple designs. That is going to be my next project.
Paula Roney
12 years agoI love the Holiday Sculpted Fleece design set. I find myself using the simple designs without fill much more often for my projects.
Nancy N
12 years agoI really like the new Bows design pack from OESD. They have really come out with some cool new designs.
Pam Jackson
12 years agoWhat a cool site! I am loving the Christmas Tree Potpourri designs, they would make lots of nice Christmas items!
Enis
12 years agoThe designs are my favorite! There is always something for everyone and all your needs and they are so beautiful!
camie dehollan
12 years agoI love the Christmas Village which I discovered this year, making all 7 pieces available. The details and sew outs are wonderful. Enjoyed doing them as much as I enjoy giving it to my daughter-in-law.
Bonnie Gray
12 years agoLove the sculpted fleece designs!
Linda
12 years agoI love the Holiday Sculpted Fleece designs. I usually end up needing something quick to stitch and these designs are beautiful. Who would believe that they were quick to stitch!
Pam George
12 years agoI wait all year for the Christmas designs and then I make my Christmas presents for everyone. Two years ago I made 3 sets of the sleigh and reindeer sets. They turn out beautiful! My Mom likes her so well that it stays out all year long.
When it get time for the set to be released each year, I stock up on stablizer for the year, so far it has work and I’ve had enough to get me thur till next holiday season!
Thank you for all the wonderful work you do for us.
Pam George
Jean
12 years agoVery cute plant holder design.
Nancy Owens
12 years agoI haven’t spent much time on the Embroidery Online because I haven’t spent much time learning to use the embroidery part of my wonderful machine. But I am not hopeless, I have goals! More embroidery in my life is up at the top of the list. I really love the project on the blog today, I want to make several of them! Thanks Eileen!
Sue Duisenberg
12 years agoI really like the Christmas village designs. we have the tree and pond so far. very lacy and nice.
Deb
12 years agoI like Isacord thread, I’ve never had problems with it. I also like the new design sets they have.
Judi
12 years agoAnnual Christmas Collections and Crafters Collections are the best inspirations from OESD. Happy Holidays!
Doreen
12 years agoI like the designs
patricia
12 years agoI love the annual Christmas Collection. They have the best designs and they stitch out nicely every time.
Sharon Aiken
12 years agoI especially love the Christmas collection from 2011.
Brenda Howard
12 years agoI love the Flutterbies in the Garden (Collection #78570)
CRAFTER’S COLLECTION and all the e-tips they have on the site.
Paule-Marie
12 years agoI like their e-tips. I did get a kick out of the Fear the Beard embroidery. I don’t know if it was meant for Christmas, but you sure could use it for that
ouida brown
12 years agoGreat – and simple idea!!! The annual Christmas Collection is always incredible!
LeAnne L
12 years agoI really like their premier collections. Magic in the Air is my favorite this year.
Kay
12 years agoConfession time!!! I admit I have drooled a few times over the designs on their website. Wish I had an endless pile of $$$ to buy them all! They’re all so gorgeous!
Ann
12 years agoHappy Holiday Stitching!
Doreen
12 years agoI like the stabilizers and all the Christmas designs and animal designs. Well, I like it all.
Shelly C
12 years agoI love seeing all the projects and ideas!! Soemtimes I need inspiration
Terri Beck
12 years agoI bought one of your older CD’s last year and it had a 3D snowflake that you had to put together by putting tiny little balls through tiny little eyelets. i about never got those things in there but it was totally worth it. It was beautiful!!! Any tricks to that if I want to make another one?
Many blessings
And Merry Christmas
Terri
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