Start this jolly holiday season with fun free Christmas coloring pages. 'Tis the season for lots of excitement and joy for both young and old. Anticipation starts to build early as Christmas approaches. Some are making lists, feasting on cookies and milk, picking out the right tree, wrapping presents (the ones that Santa doesn't bring), decorating, listening for reindeer bells and the most fun of all, trying to catch a glimpse of Santa. This certainly is lots of fun and a great way to entertain children as we countdown the days till Christmas by giving them fun interactive Christmas coloring pages.
Our goal is to bring you quality coloring pages that children love to color. You will find everything from easy to more challenging so that there is something for all ages. Have children use crayons, markers, colored pencils, water color and any other medium to create their masterpieces. If you want to save as a keepsake, have them write their name and year. It's great to look at these as the years pass, as they grow right before our own eyes. You will find to differnt types of downloads on this Christmas coloring page.
If the image has a source, click the image and it will take you to the download page. If it is something created by us or source is unknown or broken, simply right-click mouse and save to your computer. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all, Enjoy! Santa Coloring Pages. The Christmas holiday season is such a cheerful holiday. Children are filled with excitement and looking forward to the big day. Keep them entertained with fun Christmas coloring pages.
There are so many Christmas themes that we decided to separate the coloring pages by theme to make it easier to find exactly what you are looking for. Find your favorites and click on the image for free download (where links are available) or right-click to save to your computer. Christmas Stocking Coloring Page This adorable coloring page of a Christmas stocking filled with goodies is by book author and illustrator Elizabeth Dulemba. While you're there, visit her site and explore all her beautiful coloring pages and kids' books.
Click on image to download this coloring page and see all her fantastic work. Merry Christmas! Ben & Holly's Christmas Coloring Spend a little Christmas time with fairy princess Holly and her best friend, Ben the elf. They live in Little Kingdom where they often go on adventures with there friends including Gaston the Ladybird. Princess Holly has magical powers although her magic sometimes goes a little sideways.
Her fairy teacher is Nanny Plum who sometimes has spells that don't go a planned. This pack from Nick Jr. Is filled with lots of fun things to do including coloring pages, Christmas card, printable game, connect-the-dots, and Christmas letter paper to write to Santa.
Get your Ben & Holly Holiday Pack. Curious George Coloring Page Curious George is an adorable brown monkey who was created by H.A.
& Margaret Rey. Did you know that Curious George was originally French and his name was Fifi? You can read more about it. Curious George, the book, was first published in 1941 and later on became a TV series. The coloring page below is from the cover of the movie (and book), 'Curious George A Very Monkey Christmas'. Unfortunately, the coloring page is originally a little blurry, but it's so cute, we decided to post it anyway. Click on the coloring page to download this printable.
Elf-On-The-Shelf Elf-On-A-Shelf has become quite the phenomenon. It started over 5 years ago when these adorable elves started appearing. This special scout elf is sent from the North Pole to help Santa on his naughty or nice list. When a family adopts an elf and gives it a name, the elf receives its Christmas magic and can fly back to the North Pole each night to tell Santa Claus about all the day's adventures. Both my daughters actually adopted their own elf the very first year they started appearing and we had fun watching all the mischievous fun their elves had.
I remember when they first came to our house some weeks before Christmas and we found our Christmas tree wrapped in bathroom paper with one elf inside the tree and the other hiding in the toilet paper roll. We all had a great laugh and wondered what else they might do while they were here. I must admit that we were not aware of the 'no-touch' rule which says that you can not touch the elf or they lose their magic. My girls played with them and slept with them and they even stayed till the following summer (because my younger daughter could not bare to part with her elf) with the approval of Santa Claus. Elf on a shelf is certainly popular and these last couple of years these elves have been appearing in the funniest ways. Bring Elf on a shelf to your home this christmas with these fun coloring pages, printables games and crafts.
These elves are cute but they are pricey too, especially if you have more than one child. Make your own easy elf on a shelf. It's not exactly like the real one but work well especially for the little ones. Elf On The Shelf Coloring Pages.
Personalized Coloring Pages WOW!!! Couldn't wait to share this with you!
Christmas coloring pages that you can personalize with the click of the mouse and print (from home), for FREE!! Children love to see their name on.Anything! How cool is it that you can personalize a coloring page?
So much fun and so simple! You can find these images and lots more at Frecklebox. They have 2 different Christmas coloring pages (shown below). Click on image to go directly to personalize and print the Christmas pages below or click to check out all the coloring pages on their site. Personalized Christmas Coloring Pages OH MY GOODNESS! Every time I find a golden nugget, I just want to jump with joy!
I could not have posted this any faster. I just discovered TwistyNoodle.Com and I can't believe what a treasure trove of awesome educational coloring pages they have on their site. They have fabulous coloring pages with clean lines and super cute illustrations.
I made one (below) to share with you to show you all how very cool this is! This website has hundreds of pages and you can customize the page with your child's name. It's just too awesome!
They offer 4 types of text (solid and 3 tracing styles). You can print the page as a full coloring page or as a worksheet like the one on the right in the image below. How cool is that? Wait, there's more! You don't have to sign up (although I already did, it's free) or join.
You just pick the page, personalize it and print it! AND IT'S FREE!! What child doesn't like to see their name up in lights? So what are you waiting for?
Go check out their website (click on image below), you will be happy you did! Happy Coloring! Christmas BINGO We love BINGO! It's such a great family-friendly game that both young and old can play together. This free Christmas BINGO game by Crayola brings 5 different printable BINGO cards.
The fun part about playing this BINGO game is that when the 'caller' pulls out an image that's on your board, you get to color it. The first one with 5 colored squares in a row, wins! Click on image for download.
Download will take you to the general Crayola page and then just scroll down. We did it this way so it would be easy to see all 5 boards. Santa Mask Entertain kids while their waiting for the big day with this free printable Santa Claus mask. To make a DIY sled, grab a large cardboard box and cut the top lid off, tape some jingle bells to the box, open 2 holes on the box and loop some ribbon or string throughout the holes. Leave the string long enough so that there is some space between the child and the box, then tie the ribbon around child's waist. To make easy and budget friendly reindeers, get 2 long branches and wrap some jingle bells around the branches and for a finale use brown chenille stems (pipe cleaners) and shape it around the end of the twig or branch to make it look like deer antlers and Voila!
You have 2 branch reindeers! Make some pretend presents for them to deliver (to other family members, the cat, the dog, pretend friends, toy animals like their favorite dinosaur, stuffed animals and toy characters like Spiderman, etc.). You can also make mini presents for everyone on the list.
For example, if they are going to deliver to Spiderman and you happen to have some left over spider web from halloween, you can roll some of it up into a soft ball and tie a ribbon around it, add a name tag and you just made yourself a great Spiderman present. If you want to be extra clever, tie ribbons around small stacks of laundry and have them deliver it to their room, this way you get 2 jobs done at once. I can see I'm getting carried away once again with my Santa mask idea so I'll stop before I turn this into a Christmas party. Kids can run around the house pretending to be Santa with this free mask and a DIY sled and reindeer.How Fun!
I am delighted to have Patsy Thompson as our December FMQ Expert, for the 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge. When I personally set out to learn FMQ, it was Kelly Jackson of that recommended Patsy's DVDs to me.
Based on Kelly's recommendation, I purchased one of Patsy's DVDs and was so impressed with how much I learned, I've been actively adding her DVDs and books to my library whenever I can. They are all inspirational, full of tips and easy to follow steps to learn and/or improve your free-motion quilting skills. SewCalGal gives them all a 5 star rating and views they are a 'must have' for any quilter interested in FMQ! From my first exposure to Patsy, I've been amazed with the beauty of Patsy's free-motion quilting. Her DVDs give me a feeling of attending a private class with her and I can watch and learn on my schedule, take breaks and repeat any portion as I wish.
While I've watched many of her DVDs from start to finish many times, I still enjoy watching them frequently. And, I continue to take Patsy's DVDs with me when I travel and I continue to learn from them too! Patsy has provided a personal introduction, as well as an excellent tutorial. Still, I want to share a few more insights with you today about this amazing woman.
Once I was introduced to Patsy's free-motion quilting DVDs and books, I quickly realized what a talented quilter she is. I set my sights on building a library that contained all of her DVDs and books, but I want to clarify these are not items that sit on the shelf and collect dust. They are truly my favorite source of free-motion quilting educational tools and items that I always recommend to anyone interested in learning/improving their free-motion quilting skills.
I'll also confess that I became a stalker of Patsy, eager for her blog posts where she shares tips and inspirational insights, enjoying her newsletter, as well as learning about new products. And somewhere along the way, I like to think developed a deep and sincere admiration and respect for this woman who has a vibrant and generous soul that radiates in all she does in life, including her quilting. Besides teaching through her DVDs and Books, Patsy has also taught through classes on The Quilt Show. And, Patsy travels to teach a variety of classes.
While I feel I have taken her classes, by watching her DVDs, I'm still eager to take a physical class with Patsy. And, I keep an eye out for where she is teaching, as well as work to do what I can to get her to come teach in my area of So. You may want to talk to your Quilt Guild Program Coordinator and/or local Quilt Shop to have them schedule a class with Patsy in your area. I have been quilting for 35 years and was a hand quilter for the first 25. I really loved the peace of mind that came with hand quilting and never had any interest in machine quilting until I started looking closely at quilts in shows and realized there were many cool effects that were possible by machine that could not be done by hand. This made me decide to learn machine quilting and it was a very difficult and frustrating process for me.
Once I got “over the hump,” though, FMQ became an incredibly fun, exhilarating and relaxing activity for me. (The irony of exhilarating and relaxing in the same breath is not lost on me, but FMQ really has both effects!) Teaching others to FMQ brings me a lot of joy; nothing is more thrilling than seeing a student climb over that same “hump” and jump feet first into the exciting world of FMQ! Hello quilting friends! I’m so honored that SewCalGal asked me to be part of the Free Motion Quilting Challenge. I hope you’ve enjoyed this incredible free motion quilting journey as much as I have!
You’ve had 11 months of incredible lessons from other teachers and I don’t want to be repetitious, so I will limit myself to some basic principles of machine quilting the border areas on your quilts. This tutorial has 2 parts. Part I is a summary of basic border principles coupled with some drawing/stitching exercises to inspire you to play with border design ideas. Part II is a video tutorial that will teach you how to create one type of feather border that appears very complex and sophisticated, but is actually one of the simplest feather border designs one can create. I want you to walk away from this posting overflowing with excitement and a sense that border design ideas are limitless! I’ve got a lot I want to share, so let’s get to it! The border zones of quilts are special areas in that these act as frames for whatever is inside them.
You have the ability to accentuate the “power” of the frame by quilting some type of interesting design inside the border zone. Sometimes, you will have multiple border areas on a given quilt. When border zones are directly next to one another, know that you will get extra bang from your buck by stitching very different designs on adjacent border zones as this will create a more complex appearing frame. You won’t be able to appreciate it until all the borders on a given quilt have been stitched, but the visual impact of how different border designs interact with one another creates a secondary design that will add a new level of richness to your quilt. As an example, in the photo below. We can really appreciate that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Think about itthis is really a very basic (maybe even humdrum) Amish quilt, but the secondary design created by these lovely flowing curvaceous lines has added a depth and richness to this quilt.
The take-home message here is that your free motion quilting can really make your quilts far more interesting! This current example used feather designs, but we’ll now move to different types of border designs, and you’ll see that this same principle will hold true here as well. This design is created by merely stitching an undulating line back and forth between the edges of the border, curving the line as you reach either extreme. Know that this design looks better if the worms are on the skinnier side. The 4 corners of your border will generally need to be treated somewhat differently than the primary border design, but don’t let that challenge throw you. Your goal here will often be to merely come up with some design you can angle along the miter line, and I have merely thrown in a seashell motif in this example. Ok, this next design looks very complicated, but you can do this!
The secret to creating complex-appearing designs is to break them down into manageable parts. To start, mark small tick marks all along the lower edge of the border at ½ inch increments. You’ll create this design by starting to stitch a seashell (that’s my term for a teardrop with one or more smaller teardrops inside it) with the tip of each seashell hitting the tick mark. In between each seashell, you’ll stitch a tiny loop and then travel to the next tick mark to begin the next seashell. In the corner, I’ve stitched a small splay with a skinny teardrop at the tip, but you could stitch all kinds of things here. Notice, though, that it’s kind of nice to have some variety in what designs are stitched in the corners, especially when you have multiple borders adjacent to one another.
Before you leave this design, take a moment to analyze it. Do you see how easy it might be to alter it just a bit to create a different border design? For example, what would happen if we converted the curve at the top of the seashells to points?
This kind of thinking will enable you to keep generating new quilting design ideas. Now that you’ve proven to yourself that you can create a complex border design (I’m applauding for you but you can’t hear it!), I’m going to throw in a real ringer! For this next border we’re going to stitch the basic feather wave border shown above. This feather border is different than most feather borders you see and it’s all because of the way the spine guideline is drawn.
For most feather borders, the spine guideline (or the curve of the feather), is oriented such that there is space on both sides of the spine to stitch plumes. This is not the case for feather wave borders. In these borders, the spine is stitched such that there is room for plumes on only one side of the spine or curve of the feather. This is what creates the very dramatic ebb and flow of feather wave borders.
So, the first step in creating this type of border is to draw a spine guideline that literally curves from one extreme of the border edge to the opposite border edge, as shown below. (I created this guideline by bending a flexible curve ruler and then tracing alongside it. You’ll learn more about how to use flexible curve rulers in the video that follows.) When working on your quilt, you’d next go and stitch this entire spine line as it meandered across all four sides of the quilt. Once done, you’d stitch your plumes, deliberately carrying your stitching line so that each plume tip actually touched the edges of the border. This is a feather wave border in its purest form, but know that there are many variations of this type of border design!. Using a pencil and a blank worksheet, allow yourself the freedom to play with border design ideas.
Drawing designs in pencil will help you learn the roadmap to stitch them in thread, so this is not wasted time. Avoid falling into the trap of feeling you can’t do this because you can’t draw. Trust me, the only way anyone learns to draw is by doing it repeatedly!. Create a 20-24 inch square quilt sandwich and trace a 4 inch square in the center.
(Tip: Use a solid fabric or a gently mottled fabric so you'll be able to easily see your stitching.). Trace a few ½ inch, ¾ inch, 1 inch and 1 ½ inch border zones.
Stitch all these traced lines such that true border zones have been created. Don’t feel pressured to fill them all right away, but take your time with this exercise. Try stitching out some designs that we’ve discussed here and stitch some of your own. You’ll be amazed how much fun you’ll have doing this!. If you have a quilt with a border zone that needs to be filled, stitch the centered feather border design that’s taught in the following video. This is another example of a complex appearing design that is surprisingly easy to stitch once you break it down into its parts.
For those using a MAC or want to watch this video directly from YouTube vs embedded in this post, here is the link: Thank you Patsy for providing us with the above tutorial! And, Patsy has generously offered a special discount to participants in the 2012 FMQ Challenge on any (e.g. PTD books, PTD DVDs, PTD patterns, and PTD fabric cutting dies), exluding bundles, through December 31st and receive a 15% discount. Use the discount code: FMQchallenge (code is case sensitive).
DECEMBER CHALLENGE OVERVIEW While this challenge is focused on learning and/or improving our free-motion quilting skills, you also have the opportunity to win prizes. To be eligible to win a monthly prize, simply complete the current months' tutorial in the month it is released and get your entry submitted via the But do remember this challenge is more about learning and improving your FMQ skills, so don't rush thru the exercise just to enter. Take time to practice and embed this design to your muscle memory, before you enter. To clarify, DO NOT just add a link to your blog, but to your post that shows that you have completed this tutorial. You get one link, so keep practicing until you feel you are finished with this tutorial. For bloggers: Please post your entry on your blog. To clarify, you can include as many photos of this tutorial exercise in your post, but you can only add one link to the linky tool below.
You may also want to include insights in your post about your past FMQ experience and thoughts about this tutorial. Totally, optional, but you may also want to let everyone know that you have taken the Pledge and you did this exercise to enter the the challenge this month, where randomly selected winners will win a prize. You may inspire others to want to join this challenge too! For non-Bloggers: 1) You will need to have a Flickr account. 2) Upload your photos for this month's challenge to Flickr, batch organize, send your photos to groups, select ' '. While Flickr, limits the amount of text you can share in your description, feel free to share your perspective on this exercise and/or your past FMQ experience, if you wish. 3) After your photos have successfully been loaded to the ' ' group, click on your best photo in that group, ideally one that shows the stencil and how you quilted using that stencil.
Copy the URL link to your particular photo entry. Add that link to the linky tool above, to officially enter this show. Remember only one link (entry) per person that has taken the to learn and/or improve their Free Motion Quilting Skills, on a home sewing machine, in 2012. For those that may need help to link up the link to their tutorial project, to the linky for this challenge, Dana ( ) has also written an excellent, so please take time to read her tutorial if you are not familiar with linkys or have any questions about linkys, in general. Please read the rules above, before you enter by way of adding a link below.
And, Only add one link after you have practiced the tutorial to master the design. No rush, you have all month to practice and enter. Please follow the rules on this tutorial post, before you add a link. Participants of SewCalGal's 2012 FMQ Challenge can link here, during December, to enter to win a monthly! There will be six lucky winners this month.
One will receive the monthly prize bundle. And, thanks to Patsy, five winners will receive a copy of her DVD '.
This DVD is a 2-volume set that covers all kinds of feather border and feather frame designs. The retail price of this DVD set is $44.95 Winners of this wonderful DVD set will need to pay for shipping, regardless if the winner is a US or International resident. The,. The,. The was only available during the month of March.
To clarify, this tutorial will be removed shortly, in keeping with the condition by this FMQ Expert. The, by Don Linn. The, by Leah Day. The, by Cindy Needham. The, by Angela Walters. The, by Wendy Sheppard.
The, by Paula Reid. The, by Teri Lucas. The, by Sarah Vedeler 'Bonus' tutorials will be released, this summer, that will also be options for those needing to complete 12 FMQ tutorials anytime in 2012 to be eligible to enter to win a Grand Prize. What a fantastic finale to our year-long challenge! This tutorial will keep us busy for far more than one month, what with all the possibilities it presents! Thank you Patsy for sharing your expertise and beautiful design work with us! In keeping with SewCalGal's request, I'd love to see more inspiration for applique stitching in both DVD and book form.
I'm a book person myself, since it's easily portable for reference at my machine, etc. And, as always my heartfelt thanks to SewCalGal for persevering through the year to bring all these tutorials to us!
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