Wonky Christmas Tree Quilt Project Tutorials

Are you looking for some last-minute gifts for Christmas? These Wonky Christmas Tree Quilt projects are great for that special teacher or friend. Make several to decorate your home also.

I made several of these cute little mug rugs several years ago and when I searched my blog, I realized that I have never shared the tutorial for them.

For our December Island Batik project as an ambassador, we were to make something that is a little whimsical and wonky. I’m not sure if this counts but I whipped up one mug rug and one placemat using the new Check it Out batik collection so I could share the tutorial with you.

Wonky Christmas Tree Quilt Project Tutorial

This will be one of the easiest quilt tutorials to make! Measurements will be given but you’ll soon see how easy it would be to change the size a little bit.

Purchase an ad-free printable version of the Wonky Mug Rug and Placemat tutorial here

Let’s start with the Mug Rug – 8½” x 9″

Background fabric:

• Cut one strip the width of the fabric by ¾” – sub-cut four – ¾” x 9½” pieces
• Cut two strips the width of the fabric by 1½” – sub-cut two 1½” x 9½” pieces – use the rest of the strips for the pieces on the sides of the tree pieces.

Wonky Christmas Tree pieces:

• Yellow – cut one – 1¼” x 1½” piece
• Green – cut one – 1½” x 2½” piece
• Green – cut one – 1½” x 3¼” piece
• Green – cut one – 1½” x 5″ piece
• Brown – cut one – 1½” x 1½” piece

Seam allowance: try to do a ¼” seam but don’t worry if you are off a little as this is a whimsical and wonky quilt project.

You can see in the photo below that I didn’t cut exact pieces of the background fabric that I sewed the tree pieces. All I did was try and make sure that the tree wouldn’t be centered in the mug rug. It is off to the right a bit.

The following measurements can be used to cut the background pieces, I prefer to just use the strips of fabric and then trim.

Background fabric for the tree sections:

• Row 2 – cut one – 1½” x 6″ piece white for left side,  1½” x 3″ for right side
• Row 4 – cut one – 1½” x 5½” piece white for the left side,  1½” x 2½” for the right side
• Row 6 – cut one – 1½” x 5″ piece white for left side,  1½” x 2″ for right side
• Row 8 – cut one – 1½” x 4″ piece white for the left side,  1½” x 1½” for the right side
• Row 10 – cut one – 1½” x 5¾” piece white for the left side,  1½” x 3″ for the right side

Finishing:

• Press your rows to the dark pieces and then trim if needed.
• Cut your batting and backing a little bigger than your quilt piece.
• Quilt as desired, I added a little free-motion star to the top of the Christmas tree.
• Add your binding – one 2½” x 40″ strip will work.

If you liked making the fast and easy little Wonky Christmas tree mug rug, how about making some place-mats!

Place-mat – 12½” x 18½”

Background fabric:

• Cut two strips the width of the fabric by 1″ – sub-cut four – 1″ x 18½” pieces
• Cut two strips the width of the fabric 2″ – sub-cut two 2″ x 18½” pieces – use the rest of the strips for the pieces on the sides of the tree pieces.

Wonky Christmas Tree pieces:

• Yellow – cut one – 2″ x 2″ piece
• Green – cut one – 2″ x 4″ piece
• Green – cut one – 2″ x 6″ piece
• Green – cut one – 2″ x 8″ piece
• Brown – cut one – 2″ x 1¾” piece

The following measurements can be used to cut the background pieces, I prefer to just use the strips of fabric and then trim.

Background fabric for the tree sections:

• Row 2 – cut one – 2″ x 12½” piece white for left side,  2″ x 5″ for right side
• Row 4 – cut one – 2″ x 11½” piece white for left side,  2″ x 4″ for right side
• Row 6 – cut one – 2″ x 10½” piece white for left side,  2″ x 3″ for right side
• Row 8 – cut one – 2″ x 9¾” piece white for left side,  2″ x 2″ for right side
• Row 10 – cut one – 2″ x 13″ piece white for left side,  2″ x 5″ for right side

Sew this together the same way you sewed the mug rug together.

Finishing:

• Press your rows to the dark pieces and then trim if needed.
• Cut your batting and backing a little bigger than your quilt piece.
• Quilt as desired, I added a little free-motion star to the top of the Christmas tree.
• Add your binding – two 2½” x 40″ strips will work.
• Repeat the steps for each place-mat.

So far I have made four little wonky Christmas Tree mug rugs. I really don’t worry about the size. Go to the Dollar Tree and pick up some coffee mugs, make some cookies and you have a great gift idea for a holiday gift basket!

How about a pillow?

You can use the tree size from the place-mat and just add the same size of background strips to the right side so you can get a centered wonky Christmas tree for a pillow and add a border to make the pillow any size you would like.

I always like putting out Christmas pillows for the holidays!

I can’t remember how big I made the pillow. I pulled out the Christmas decorations yesterday and will find it.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! This blog post has been converted to an optional PDF that’s optimized for printing.

Purchase an ad-free printable version of the Wonky Mug Rug and Placemat tutorial here

Here are some more Christmas tutorials that I have done!

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