Hollygon Wreath: a quilt-as-you-go festive wreath or table centrepiece pattern to brighten your holiday decor.

Say hello to the Hollygon Wreath, a sweet, versatile quilt-as-you-go project that you can hang like a wreath or lay flat as a table centrepiece.

Make it plain and let your fabric shine, or add needleturn or fusible applique using the included templates, and go to town with tiny buttons, sequins, and sparkly stitches.

The finished size is about 15.4 inches (39 cm) across, which is perfect for doors, shelves, and tables.

What do you make?

10 quilted pentagons joined into a ring that you can:

1. Use it flat as a tablescape with a candle, bowl, or dish in the middle (take care with fabric near open flames).
2. Hang it as a wreath with the included detailed written and photographic instructions for either a cardboard hanging ring or a metal macrame ring.

Three ways to make and style it

Option 1: Non appliqué. Fussy-cut your favourite prints, add running stitches, French knots, and a few sequins, and you're done. I used Tilda Merry Little Christmas fabric for this version. Lean into the fabric design and use that as your guide to add details. I stitched ‘quilted’ embroidery stitches to create quilted details. Watch this video on what this looks like.

Option 2: Needleturn applique. Classic, soft edges with shapes placed using the layout guide. The applique templates come with annotations for adding stitched details.

These are fairly small applique pieces. Take your time when stitching them, cut the seams larger than required to start and snip them down as you sew for clean, unfrayed edges to turn under. The PDF pattern includes an A4 and a Letter-sized sheet to print and fold into your own little envelope, keeping these templates corralled. WATCH HOW

Option 3: Fusible applique. Crisp shapes, hand-stitched down for texture. Using a lightweight two-sided fusible to attach the applique shapes to the pentagon, they were then secured using either quilted running stitches or vertical stitches, depending on the shape (see photos, I don’t know how to explain this).

The applique templates include fusible applique options where required; they’re marked in the pattern. Add glitter felt accents if you like, as per my sample. For this version, I used one of Acufactum’s gorgeous festive prints. They have so many. Check them out here, and I bought mine from Forage in Australia, link.

Skill level

Confident beginner and up. If you can trace, cut, and fold to create a neat edge, and hand-sew a slip stitch and a simple running stitch, you are golden.

What’s inside the pattern

• Printable template pentagon (donut).
• Printable applique templates for the cutest stocking, bow, holly, gingerbread man, gingerbread house, Christmas tree, dove, snowman, snow globe and ornament!
• Two tiny template pocket sheets (A4 and US Letter) you print, fold, and glue to corral the little applique pieces.
• Clear quilt-as-you-go steps, decorative stitching ideas, and two hanging methods.
• Tips for threads, needles, fusible batting, and embellishments. DMC Diamant Grande is a fabulously sparkly thread for embellishment, LINK, as is the thinner version, LINK.

Supplies you will love

• Low-loft single-sided fusible batting makes alignment and hand quilting so much easier.
• 8-12 wt threads for tactile quilted running stitches and whipped stitch accents.
• 4 mm buttons, small sequins, and yo-yo accents for sparkle.
• Ready to stitch your holiday glimmers into something you will use year after year?
• Optional acrylic donut template for the pentagon.

Grab the Hollygon Wreath PDF Pattern, or bundle it with the acrylic template set. Tag your make with #CraftapaloozaHollygon and tag  @craftapalooza so we can cheer you on and feature your wreaths in roundups and reels.

Hollygon Wreath is available wholesale through Creative Abundance.