Holiday Mantels for Every Season
A Mantel for All Seasons
Don’t have a fireplace to hang your Christmas stockings – No problem!! Make this quilt wall hanging and you’ll have a cozy hearth to hang the stockings with care. This pattern uses fabric tone together with a centered diminishing perspective to give a 3D effect.
You can decorate the mantle with your own creations together with the embroidery package to create the fire and season changing accessories for your fireplace. The embroidery package includes the fire, 4 seasonal wreaths, an assortment of candles, flower elements, Santa coming down the chimney, milk and cookies, fireplace tools, a Christmas stocking, and a picture frame to hold your photo.
The embroideries to decorate the mantel / fireplace are all created free standing so that they can be changed as the seasons change. Mix and match with an assortment of accessories such as candles, flowers, and bows. Use old-fashioned dress makers pins to attach the pieces where you like them.
Project Requirements
Fireplace Fabric
- Wall ¾ yd
- Back of Firebox fat quarter
- Mantel Edges ¼ yd
- Mantel Surfaces ¼ yd
- Fireplace Stone 1 ¼ yds Stonehenge hombre
- Fire fat quarter
- Logs fat quarter
Embroidery Supplies
- Embroidery machine that is in good working order
- 360mm x 200mm hoop
- Mesh wash away stabilizer
- Fine tulle
- Embroidery thread
- Fabric for applique
- Clear plastic (simulates glass)
- Iron on fusible material such as Soft Fuse, Steam a Seam, or Heat n Bond.
- Sharp, pointed snips
- Fabric glue stick
- Liquid fabric glue
- Normal sewing supplies
- USB stick - files will be provided in class
- Pattern - supplied at class
Class 1: Fireplace Construction
Homework : Complete Fireplace
Class 2: How to embroider embellishments
Holiday Mantels for Every Season
Embroidery designs for mantel and 4 seasons included in class fee (others can be purchased separately.)