The Christmas Pot Plant

I got up one morning last week and a Christmas Tree bauble had miraculously reappeared from last year.  I swear I'd searched the living room top to bottom last year looking for it, but it was not to be found.  Now, a week before Christmas, here it was in the middle of the carpet.  Do you think Miss Elliecat might be trying to tell me something?  

I didn't want to bother with a huge big tree this year, its a lot of work for one!  However auntie wasn't too impressed with the no tree plan, and clearly neither was Ells, so I had to improvise a bit.  

Whaddya think of the Christmas Pot Plant?

We've got lights, black baubles, white stars, white reindeer, white angels, silver teeny stars, and candy canes.  Of course my beautiful Modern Christmas Table Runner received from Kat is star of the show!

Its beginning to look a bit like Christmas...  Well, just a little bit. 

Now, I am still ploughing away at my Christmas sewing so I'm afraid the photo based tute for the Christmas tree block will have to wait a bit.   In the mean time, I can give you the info for it.

I used 5 shades of green solid, a yellow, a brown, and 3 lights/decoration colours.  These are the size guides for a block that measures 14.25" square finished, which I thought was a nice big size for a hot pad on the Christmas table.  The pixel squares measure 0.75" finished, so cut size is 1.25" square.  You'll need 18 of each green, 10 of each of the 3 colours, 1 yellow and 4 brown.  

I cut all the colour squares, and kept arranging them in a random layout until I liked it.  I assembled the coloured squares in horizontal rows, then joining rows that were exactly the same size too.  (I couldn't be arsed doing the white in tiny wee squares!  It was easier to get the colours into strips then attach white to either end.)

The white sizes are as follows, listed top to bottom

• 1 x   14.75" x 1.25"
• 2 x    7.25" x 1.25"
• 2 x    6.5" x 2"
• 2 x    5.75" x 2"
• 2 x    5" x 2"
• 2 x    4.25" x 2"
• 2 x    3.5" x 2"
• 2 x    2.75" x 2.75"
• 2 x    3.5" x 1.25"
• 2 x    6.5" x 1.25"
• 2 x    7.25" x 1.25"
• 1 x   14.75" x 1.25"

If you wanted to do the whole thing in squares, its a 19 x 19 grid.  I think it'd look pretty cool as a large cushion, 1" squares.   Of course if you're a glutton for punishment clever you could do half inch squares for a 9.5" square mug rug or smaller hot pad.

I will be making it again, and when I do, I promise, honest, I will post it with photos as a tute of sorts!

Right, I'm off to mull some wine and put some tunes on.

Merry Christmas!