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I wanted to show you my 2 Christmas trees I made for gifts for my family
There are two views of each tree one with the lights on and one with the lights off so you can see the rest of the tree.

Wow, those are really awesome!!!!!

Beautiful!! How did you do that? hehe

LEDs? Really lovely!

Wow!!! I wish I was your family. The trees are really pretty.

Really, really neat! Thanks for sharing...

Oh my, they are lovely. I've never seen anything like that. I might add it to my "someday" list!

Lights on, lights off, lights on, lights off....that is what I would be doing. They look great!

very nice Christmas Tree

Wow is right A tute please or where to buy the pattern would be great. Thanks for sharing your talent with us on QB
Pat

That is so neat to have the lights on it. Such a novel idea.

love them all lit up

They are both beautiful! I love them!

Wow..they look great.

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Originally Posted by homecaregiver (Post 5682692)

Wow is right A tute please or where to buy the pattern would be great. Thanks for sharing your talent with us on QB
Pat

I'm more curious as to what type of lights have been used ... and where to get them!

Those are very cool. The lights are spectacular. Not something you normally see on a quilt. Thanks for sharing.

Holy Moly...those are fantastic

Oh WOW! Those are fantastic. Would love to know how you did that. I will hope going thru the rest of the replies that I will find out

How did you do that! It looks amazing! Great work....you'r so clever!

Looks so cool when they are lit up!

These are just darling!! Your family will be so happy to display these for many years! Did you use a commercial pattern or kit, or figure all that out yourself? I am curious - would like to make something like that for my little grandchildren!!

Thank you all for the compliments. I made them from a pattern that was at a small quilt shop in Oregon, the pattern is from 2007 so I don't know if is would still be available or not. It measures 30 wide by 34 long. The hardest part is finding the lights the pattern calls for 100 battery operated 'rice' lights which means the light is the size of a grain of rice. It seems that the battery operated rice lights in 100 strands are no longer available, You can only find strands of 20 or 30 and they are made for making lighted Wreaths.I have looked ever where. So I used electric lights so there is a cord hanging from the bottom that you have to plug in. The tree with the colored lights were made with 'mini' lights and it was much harder to make than using rice lights. The tree with the all clear lights is made with rice lights.which I picked up somewhere at the end of the holidays last year. I could not find muliti colored electric rice lights anywhere.

All you have to do is find or make an applique tree pattern onto a background, then quilt it as you would any quilt, then you have to punch 100 1/8" holes using a leather hole punch into the tree pattern and then then you need .101IDx.070 thick "O" rings to attach the lights into each hole. The "O" rings hold the lights in the holes, you put a "O" ring into a light then insert it into a hole then put another "O" ring over the light on the front of the tree. You can order the "O" rings form a company called McMaster -Carr they are around 2.00 for 100 and you would need 200 per
tree Here are the written requirments if you want them.
Fabric Requirments are
Background fabric 5/8 yard(this would be the sky part)
Floor fabric 1/4 yd (18x22)
tree fabric 3/4yd
inside border 1/4yd
Outer border 1/2 yd
Steam-A-SeamII
Backing 1yd
Binding 1/3yd
Batting 1yd(use a thin batting)
"O" rings size .101 IDx.070thickness
1/8" leather punch
1string Multi-Colored Rice lights 100
embellishments for trimming the tree.

OMG!!!! That is awesome. It took my breathe away when I saw it. Use these lights in a Halloween wreath for my daughter. Thanks for sharing. Never thought of adding them to my Christmas Tree wallhanging I am working on. The web link is

http://www.batteryoperatedcandles.ne...equipment.html

Sewfine, I really wish they made those lights in muliti colors and not just clear. I only used the clear on this tree because that is all I could find.

Great idea, well done!

So bright and festive. Love it!

Those are beautiful!

Now how on earth did you do that?? I better read page 2,3,4... It is lovely!!!

Their beautiful, maybe next years gifts,

Love love love them. never thought to put lights in a quilt.

Thanks so much for telling us how you made them (post #28)- they are so cute, and thanks to SEW FINE also for the link to the lights - I appreciate your helpful responses to my queries!!