How to Make Cottage-Style Burlap Christmas Trees

by Corine Mapes- Junk to Gems

5 Materials

1 Hour

Easy

I have seen trees made from everything while looking on online. I had this old burlap coffee bag sitting around waiting to have something done to it, so I decided to make some Christmas trees with it.

They are nothing fancy and I didn't even use the sewing machine. I just used hot glue but you could sew these or use material glue. I knew I wouldn't be washing them.

DIY burlap bag Christmas tree

Tools and materials:

Old burlap coffee bag
Scissors
Hot glue gun
Stuffing
Spindle
Muslin
Old jewelry
Small cheese box

Old burlap coffee bag and scissors

Here is my old coffee bag I had.

Cutting the burlap bag into triangles

1. Cut & glue the burlap bag

My pattern is a little crude but it all came out good in the end. First, I cut out my shapes and hot glued the front and back together, leaving a hole to fill them with stuffing.

Stuffing the Christmas tree

2. Stuff the Christmas tree

I used my spindle to put the stuffing in. You could use a dowel or stick also.

Gluing the spindle to make the trunk

3. Glue the spindle

Then I glued my spindle trunk into the tree.

Embellishing the DIY Christmas tree

4. Embellish

I tore some muslin and old fabric into strips, made a bow, hot glued them onto the top side of the tree, and attached an old piece of jewelry to that.