Looking for Christmas quilling patterns for your Christmas cards or perhaps to quill Christmas decorations? Why not make your own? There really is only one simple secret to creating your own quilling patterns - draw pictures using the shapes you know how to quill.

A very simple pattern that I created using only coils, squares, triangles and a single diamond was a christmas tree with presents around it. Three large triangles formed the Christmas tree itself with three brown squares as the trunk of the Christmas tree. I used the single yellow diamond to decorate the top of the Christmas tree with a few coils as baubles on the Christmas tree. A couple of colored squares I placed around the based as presents. If you know quilling this is a really simple pattern but at the same time really effective for this time of year.

Try putting shapes together in different ways to form new shapes to make more complex patterns. For example use three triangles in making the manger, but put the centre one on its base while the two on either side of it rest on their tips. This gives you the shape of a manger.

Baby Jesus in the manger is really simple as well, simply use a semi-circle (half-moon) to create the "swaddling clothes" over him with a circle at the one end for the head.

Use your imagination or examine pictures of Christmas cards or Christmas pictures that you like and draw them out in basic shapes that you know how to quill and you will have your Christmas quilling pattern. Enjoy creating those patterns and blessing your family and friends with them and Happy Christmas.

This Article was written by Mandy Buchanan, Owner of 1 Way Resources, your 1 stop information center. To get more information about quilling visit http://www.1wayresources.co.za/quilling.htm or to see more of our arts and crafts articles visit http://www.1wayresources.co.za/crafts.htm