A Navy and Green Christmas Tree Quilt (Happy Christmas)

Hello, my quilty friends!

🎄🎄🎄 QUILT REVEAL! 🎄🎄🎄 I finished my navy & green Happy Christmas quilt and all I can say is "I'm in love, I'm in love, and I don't care who knows it!" 🥰😍

This is the sixth color version I've made of my Happy Christmas quilt, and it surprised me. I love it SO much more than I thought I would!

How to make a dark background Christmas tree quilt

Collect your darks. I collected fabrics for this one for months: navies, deep greens and teals, with a few fun prints like Santas, snowflakes and skiers mixed in. A scrappy mix of darks makes the background look like a night sky.

Make the tree low volume. Use your lightest prints for the tree so it looks flocked against all that navy.

Cut fast and straight. I cut this whole quilt with my Stripology XL ruler. It has grooves every 1/2", so it makes quick work of all those 5" squares, and it helps me be SO much more accurate.

Don't sew it row by row. I divide the quilt into sections and use a webbing (chain piecing) technique to sew each section together. It's so much faster! I wrote up a free step-by-step tutorial for it that you can download.

The binding that came in last place

Kaitlyn (@knotandthread) did the quilting, and then I ran a poll in my stories asking what color binding to use. Navy came in first, then red, then green, and low volume came in LAST. I chose low volume. 😂

I could second guess myself, but I'm sticking with what I chose and loving it. There's no wrong choice when it comes to choosing fabric for your quilt. It's YOUR quilt! Go with your gut and go with what you love.

Get the pattern

Happy Christmas is in my shop. Download the PDF and get started today! 🎄

Get the Happy Christmas quilt pattern

Want more color ideas? See my pink, aqua, flocked and colorful versions too.

If you make a navy one, tag me @makervalley so I can see it!

Happy sewing, my quilty friends!
🩵 Holly