Windham Fabrics Festive Forest - Downloadable PDF

Windham Fabrics Festive Forest O Christmas Tree Quilt Pattern – Free Downloadable PDF by Stacey Day

About This Pattern

The Windham Fabrics Festive Forest O Christmas Tree is a free downloadable PDF quilt pattern designed by Stacey Day for Windham Fabrics. This festive project produces a holiday-themed quilt or throw blanket featuring classic Christmas tree shapes, making it an ideal seasonal make for home décor or gifting. Rated as a beginner-friendly pattern, it is an accessible introduction to quilting with a shaped template design that delivers impressive, eye-catching results without requiring advanced skills.

What Is Being Made

This pattern creates a quilted blanket or throw with a repeating O Christmas Tree motif, built using the Festive Forest fabric collection by Windham Fabrics. The finished piece is designed to celebrate the holiday season, and the tree block design gives it a timeless, traditional quilt aesthetic. The pattern is part of a coordinated project intended to showcase the Festive Forest print collection to its fullest advantage.

Templates and Cutting Instructions

The pattern includes two printed templates specifically designed for constructing the Christmas tree blocks:

• Template 2 – Cut 31 pieces, right side up, with a ¼-inch seam allowance included
• Template 3 – Cut 31 pieces total, with a ¼-inch seam allowance included; this template is also used in a reversed orientation (flipped), meaning some cuts are made right side up and some are cut with the template face down to create mirror-image pieces

A 1-inch test square is printed on the pattern sheet, allowing quilters to verify that their PDF has printed at the correct scale before cutting into fabric. This is an important step to ensure template accuracy and that the ¼-inch seam allowances are correctly sized for piecing.

Techniques Used

This pattern employs foundational patchwork quilting techniques suited to beginners. Key methods include:

• Template piecing – Using printed paper templates to cut precise fabric shapes, a traditional quilting technique that allows for accurate curved or angled pieces beyond standard rotary-cut rectangles and squares
• Mirror-image cutting – Template 3 requires cuts in both a right-side-up and a reversed position, a common technique when constructing symmetrical motifs such as tree shapes
• Seam allowance piecing – All templates include the ¼-inch seam allowance, the quilting standard, so no additional marking is needed before sewing
• Block construction – Individual tree blocks are assembled from the cut template pieces and then joined to create the overall quilt top
• Quilting and finishing – As a blanket and throw project, the finished quilt top is typically layered with batting and a backing fabric, then quilted and bound using standard quilting finishing methods

Stitches Used

• Straight stitch – The primary stitch used on a sewing machine to join all pieced template sections along the included ¼-inch seam allowance
• Quilting stitch – Applied through all three layers (quilt top, batting, and backing) to secure the finished sandwich, either by machine or by hand

Materials

While the pattern does not provide a full materials list within the extracted content, as a quilting project it is designed to be made using:

• Windham Fabrics Festive Forest fabric collection – the coordinating prints and solids from this holiday line are the intended primary fabric
• Quilting cotton fabric – standard weight cotton is the typical choice for template-pieced quilts of this style
• Quilting batting – a layer of cotton, polyester, or blended batting to add warmth and loft to the finished throw
• Backing fabric – a coordinating fabric for the reverse side of the quilt