Red Truck with a Christmas Tree

The farmhouse favorite: a vintage red pickup bringing home the tree, with a wreath on the grille.

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Christmas Collection

Red Truck with a Christmas Tree is one of 24 new Christmas designs

All 24 patterns, each with colour guide, fabric list and cut maps for 8, 6 and 5 in boards
US Letter and A4 PDFs, plus SVG cut maps
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Board size: best at 8 in. At 6 in, pieces 19, 23, 28, 25 get narrower than 7 mm. Use 1 in thick XPS foam with a double-sided adhesive sheet, scored about ¼ in deep.
Edge pieces: 4 of the 29 pieces touch the board edge (1, 2, 3, 29). Cut them with about 1 in extra on the edge sides so the fabric wraps down the side, and remember a frame lip hides about ¼ in all round.
Watch these pieces: 19 (6 mm), 23 (6 mm), 28 (8 mm), 25 (8 mm) are the narrowest at 8 in. Give them a thin cotton, an extra-generous margin, and tuck them last.
Tucking order: start with the big pieces 29, 2, 5, 12 and work in to the smallest (28, 23, 19). Tuck the front grooves as you go and wrap the board sides at the end.
Similar colors: C and F; D and G; E and G are close. Choose fabrics with a clear difference in lightness, or the shapes will blend.

The numbered colour guide and the true-scale cut maps are in the PDF.

Sizes include ¼ in to tuck, and 1 in on sides that wrap the board edge. Rounded up to the next ¼ in.

Fabric	Pieces	Biggest scrap	Total
A Cream	A Cream	10 pieces: 1, 3, 7, 8, 14, 20, 24, 25, 28, 29 · 3 on the edge	10 × 4 in64 sq in total	64 sq in
B Sky blue	B Sky blue	5 pieces: 2, 19, 22, 23, 26 · 1 on the edge	10 × 6¾ in76 sq in total	76 sq in
C Light red	C Light red	8 pieces: 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18	3 × 1¾ in27 sq in total	27 sq in
D Kelly green	D Kelly green	2 pieces: 5, 15	3¼ × 2¼ in11 sq in total	11 sq in
E Black	E Black	2 pieces: 21, 27	3¾ × 1¾ in13 sq in total	13 sq in
F Dark red	F Dark red	1 piece: 11	3½ × 2 in7 sq in total	7 sq in
G Forest green	G Forest green	1 piece: 6	1¼ × 1¼ in2 sq in total	2 sq in

Every fabric fits in scraps: the largest single piece at this size is 10 in long. A fat quarter (FQ) is about 18 × 21 in.

1
Stick, print, tape
Stick a double-sided adhesive sheet on the foam, keep its liner on, then tape the cut map printed at 100 % on top.
8 × 8 in board, 1 in thick XPS
2
Score every line
Cut through paper, liner and sheet along each line with a fresh #11 blade. Light strokes; angle the blade under sharp points.
Grooves about ¼ in (6 mm) deep
3
Peel one piece at a time
Lift the paper and liner of one piece only. Keep a second print as your map: once the foam is bare, shapes look alike.
The paper piece is your template
4
Cut the fabric
Lay the paper piece face up on the fabric and cut around it with a margin. Edge pieces need extra to wrap the side.
¼ to ½ in margin, edge pieces 1 in
5
Tuck with light strokes
Press the fabric on the sticky shape and push its edges into the grooves with the flat back of a seam ripper, opposite sides in turn.
Trim to ⅛ in before the final push
6
Big pieces first, edges last
Fill the background first and small details last, then finish the board edges. Push into corners, never away from them.
Simple 8 in board: about 1½ to 2 h